different between stride vs strid

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.

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)

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.

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)

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English stryd, a byform of stryde, stride. See stride (noun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??d/

Noun

strid (plural strids)

1. (Britain, dialect, dated) A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.
   • 1807, William Wordsworth, The Force of Prayer, 17-24:

     The pair have reached that fearful chasm,

     How tempting to bestride!

     For lordly Wharf is there pent in

     With rocks on either side.

     This striding-place is called THE STRID,

     A name which it took of yore:

     A thousand years hath it borne that name,

     And shall a thousand more.

Verb

strid

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of stride

Anagrams

• dirts, distr.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stri?d/, [sd??ið?]
• Rhymes: -id

Etymology 1

From Old Norse stríðr.

Adjective

strid

1. rough

   stridt græs (rough grass)

2. rapid

   strid strøm (rapid water)

3. stiff

   en strid storm (a stiff storm)

4. stubborn

   Du er altså strid! (You're so stubborn!)

Inflection

Derived terms

• i stride strømme

Etymology 2

From Old Norse stríð.

Noun

strid c (singular definite striden, not used in plural form)

1. quarrel, conflict, strife

Related terms

• stridbar
• stride
• stridig
• stridslysten

Etymology 3

See stride (“to fight, struggle”).

Verb

strid

1. imperative of stride

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse stríð.

Noun

strid m (definite singular striden, indefinite plural strider, definite plural stridene)

1. battle, fight, struggle
2. conflict, controversy, dispute, disagreement, quarrel

Derived terms

• stridshode
• stridsvogn

Etymology 2

Verb

strid

1. imperative of stride

References

• “strid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “strid” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse stríð n

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stri?/, /stri?d/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: stri

Noun

strid m (definite singular striden, indefinite plural stridar, definite plural stridane)

1. a struggle, fight

Noun

strid f (definite singular stida or stridi, indefinite plural strider, definite plural stridene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by stri

Etymology 2

Adjective

strid (masculine and feminine strid, neuter stridt, definite singular and plural stride, comparative stridare, indefinite superlative stridast, definite superlative stridaste)

1. Alternative form of stri

References

• “strid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?d

Etymology 1

From Old Norse stríðr.

Adjective

strid

1. rapid, swift, rich (of a stream or rain)

   hugade spekulanter anmälde sig i en strid ström

   interested buyers arrived in a rapid flow

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Norse stríð.

Noun

strid c

1. a fight, a battle, a quarrel

Declension

Related terms

• närstrid
• sjöstrid
• strida
• stridshjälm
• stridsvagn
• stridsyxa

Verb

strid

1. imperative of strida.