different between stride vs stagger

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)

  1. (intransitive) To walk with long steps.
    • Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.
  2. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
  3. To pass over at a step; to step over.
  4. 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.
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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)

  1. (countable) A long step in walking.
  2. (countable) The distance covered by a long step.
  3. (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 []
  4. (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.
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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)

  1. to fight, struggle
  2. (passive) to dispute, quarrel, fight

References

  • “stride” in Den Danske Ordbog

Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ide

Verb

stride

  1. third-person singular present indicative of stridere

Anagrams

  • destri

Latin

Verb

str?de

  1. 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)

  1. to battle, fight, struggle
  2. to conflict (with)

References

  • “stride” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

stride

  1. definite singular of strid
  2. plural of strid

Swedish

Adjective

stride

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of strid.

Anagrams

  • Estrid, tiders

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stagger

English

Etymology

From Middle English stageren, stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (to push, stagger). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?stæ??/?
  • (US) IPA(key): /?stæ??/
  • Rhymes: -æ??(r)

Noun

stagger (plural staggers)

  1. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion
    • 7 October 2012, Paolo Bandini in The Guardian, Denver Broncos 21 New England Patriots 31 - as it happened
      Put down the rosary beads folks, I believe hell may just have frozen over. Peyton Manning drops back, sees nothing open and runs for a first down. If you can call that running. More like the stagger of a wounded rhino. Did the job, though
    • 1861, Ellen Wood, East Lynne Chapter 39
      Afy slowly gathered in the sense of the words. She gasped twice, as if her breath had gone, and then, with a stagger and a shiver, fell heavily to the ground.
    • 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Stave 2
      And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all through the dance; advance and retire; both hands to your partner, bow and courtesy, corkscrew, thread the needle, and back again to your place; Fezziwig "cut"—cut so deftly that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger.
  2. (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling
  3. Bewilderment; perplexity.
  4. The spacing out of various actions over time.
    • 19 April 2016, Rachel Roddy in The Guardian, Rachel Roddy’s Roman spring vegetable stew recipe
      I don’t include cured pork, although it is very nice, and rather than putting everything in the pan at once I prefer a stagger of ingredients, which ensures each one gets the right amount of time.
  5. (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
  6. (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.

Translations

Verb

stagger (third-person singular simple present staggers, present participle staggering, simple past and past participle staggered)

  1. Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
    1. (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
      She began to stagger across the room.
      • Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
    2. (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
      The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
    3. (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
      • 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
        The enemy staggers.
  2. Doubt, waver, be shocked.
    1. (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
      • He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.
    2. (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
      He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
      • 1640, James Howell, England's Teares for the present Warres
        whosoever will be curious to read the future story of this intricate war , if it be possible to compile a story of it , he will find himself much staggered.
      • 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
        Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility.
  3. (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
    1. To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
    2. To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
      We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
    3. To schedule in intervals.
      We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.

Translations

See also

  • bestagger
  • staggeringly
  • staggers

References

Anagrams

  • gagster, gargets, taggers

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