different between stride vs travel

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

Alternative forms

• travail (obsolete)
• travell (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See travail.

Displaced native Middle English faren (“to travel, fare”) (from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”)), Middle English lithen (“to go, travel”) (from Old English l?þan (“to go, travel”)), Middle English feren (“to go, travel”) (from Old English f?ran (“to go, travel”)), Middle English ?ewalken, iwalken (“to walk about, travel”) (from Old English ?ewealcan (“to go, traverse”)), Middle English swinken (“to work, travel”) (from Old English swincan (“to labour, work at”)). More at fare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æv?l/
• Rhymes: -æv?l

Verb

travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle travelling or (US) traveling, simple past and past participle travelled or (US) traveled)

1. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
2. (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit

3. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
4. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).

5. (transitive) To force to journey.
6. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.

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Conjugation

Synonyms

• fare, journey, reyse

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)

1. The act of traveling; passage from place to place.

2. (in the plural) A series of journeys.

3. (in the plural) An account of one's travels.

4. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
5. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.

6. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

Usage notes

• Used attributively to describe things that have been created or modified for use during a journey.

Synonyms

• (act of travelling): journey, passage, tour, trip, voyage
• (activity or traffic along a route or through a given point): traffic
• (working motion of a piece of machinery): stroke, movement, progression

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• travel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• travel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• travel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• retval, varlet

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.

Adjective

travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlere, indefinite superlative travlest, definite superlative travleste)

1. busy

References

• “travel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.

Adjective

travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlare, indefinite superlative travlast, definite superlative travlaste)

1. busy

References

• “travel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From traväl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?træ????/

Noun

travel

1. A jumble of tracks, footprints.