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stride
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: str?d, IPA(key): /st?a?d/
Etymology 1
From Middle English striden, from Old English str?dan (“to get by force, pillage, rob; stride”), from Proto-Germanic *str?dan?. Cognate with Low German striden (“to fight, to stride”), Dutch strijden (“to fight”), German streiten (“to fight, to quarrel”).
Verb
stride (third-person singular simple present strides, present participle striding, simple past strode, past participle stridden or strode or strid)
- (intransitive) To walk with long steps.
- Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.
- To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
- To pass over at a step; to step over.
- To straddle; to bestride.
Usage notes
- The past participle of stride is extremely rare and mostly obsolete. Many people have trouble producing a form that feels natural.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.
Noun
stride (countable and uncountable, plural strides)
- (countable) A long step in walking.
- (countable) The distance covered by a long step.
- (countable, computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- 2007, Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful Code
- This stride value is generally equal to the pixel width of the bitmap times the number of bytes per pixel, but for performance reasons it might be rounded […]
- 2007, Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful Code
- (uncountable, music) A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- direst, disert, dister, driest, drites, redist, ridest
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse stríða, from Proto-Germanic *str?dan?.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [?sd??i?ð?s]
Verb
stride (imperative strid, present strider, past stred, past participle stridt, present participle stridende, present passive strides, past passive stredes, past participle passive stredes)
- to fight, struggle
- (passive) to dispute, quarrel, fight
References
- “stride” in Den Danske Ordbog
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ide
Verb
stride
- third-person singular present indicative of stridere
Anagrams
- destri
Latin
Verb
str?de
- second-person singular present active imperative of str?d?
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- stri
Etymology
From Old Norse stríða, and the adjective stri.
Verb
stride (imperative strid, present tense strider, passive strides, simple past stred or strei or stridde, past participle stridd, present participle stridende)
- to battle, fight, struggle
- to conflict (with)
References
- “stride” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
stride
- definite singular of strid
- plural of strid
Swedish
Adjective
stride
- absolute definite natural masculine form of strid.
Anagrams
- Estrid, tiders
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flow
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fl?
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fl??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /flo?/
- Homophones: floe, Flo
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English flowen, from Old English fl?wan (“to flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *fl?an, from Proto-Germanic *fl?an? (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?w-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Compare float.
Noun
flow (countable and uncountable, plural flows)
- A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
- The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
- (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
- The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.
- The rising movement of the tide.
- Smoothness or continuity.
- The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
- A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
- (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
- The emission of blood during menstruation.
- (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
- (computing) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action. (Usually preceded by an attributive such as login or search.)
Synonyms
- (continuity): See also Thesaurus:continuity
Antonyms
- (movement of the tide): ebb
- (continuity): See also Thesaurus:discontinuity
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- ebb and flow
- flowchart
- flowmeter
- freeflow
- single-flow
Translations
Further reading
- flow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Flow (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
flow (third-person singular simple present flows, present participle flowing, simple past and past participle flowed)
- (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
- , Dedication
- Virgil […] is […] sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
- (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- In that day […] the hills shall flow with milk.
- 1845, John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Robert Burns
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
- (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
- a flowing mantle; flowing locks
- March 11, 1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
- (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- (transitive) To cover with varnish.
- (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
Derived terms
- flowable, reflowable
- free-flowing
- overflow
- underflow
Translations
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse flói (“a large bay, firth”), see floe. Compare Scots flow (“peat-bog, marsh”), Icelandic flói (“marshy ground”).
Noun
flow (plural flows)
- (Scotland) A morass or marsh.
References
- “flow, n.2.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
- “flow, v., n.1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Anagrams
- Wolf, fowl, wolf
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?flow/, [?flow]
Noun
flow m (plural flows)
- flow
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