different between strides vs strikes

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?dz

Noun

strides

1. plural of stride

Noun

strides pl (plural only)

1. (Britain, Australia) Trousers.
   • 2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, page 97,

     So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot?s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides.

   • 2006, Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman, AuthorHouse, page 173,

     He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides, nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.

   • 2007, Antony Agar, Queensland Ringer, page 211,

     His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.

   • 1994, Irvine Welsh, The Acid House, 2008, unnumbered page,

     I thought of Des and May?s daughters, then of Gleaves, and resolved to borrow a pair of strides from Cliff, to keep the tie-wearing penile-challenged toss-bag oaf ma case.

Verb

strides

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stride

Anagrams

• dissert, disters, redists

Latin

Verb

str?d?s

1. second-person singular future active indicative of str?d?

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

strides

1. passive form of stride

Swedish

Verb

strides

1. present tense passive of strida.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?a?ks/
• Rhymes: -a?ks

Noun

strikes

1. plural of strike

Verb

strikes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of strike

Anagrams

• Kisters, riskest, skister

Spanish

Noun

strikes

1. plural of strike