different between trail vs stride

English

Etymology

From Middle English trailen, from Old French trailler (“to tow; pick up the scent of a quarry”), from Vulgar Latin *tragul?re (“to drag”), from Latin tragula (“dragnet, javelin thrown by a strap”), probably related to Latin trahere (“to pull, drag along”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?l, IPA^(key): /t?e?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Verb

trail (third-person singular simple present trails, present participle trailing, simple past and past participle trailed)

1. (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).

2. (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     "I saw your brother—I saw your brother," he said, nodding his head, as Archer lagged past him, trailing his spade, and scowling at the old gentleman in spectacles.

3. (transitive) To leave (a trail of).

4. (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.

5. (intransitive) To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.

   The bride's long dress trailed behind her as she walked down the aisle.
6. (intransitive) To run or climb like certain plants.
7. (intransitive) To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.

   Our parents marched to church and we trailed behind.

8. To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
9. (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
10. To create a trail in.
11. To travel by following or creating trails.
12. To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
13. (dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

      I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance.

Derived terms

• trailer
• trail off

Translations

Noun

trail (plural trails)

1. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
2. A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
3. A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
4. (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.

Synonyms

• (track of an animal): spoor, sign
• (route for travel over land): dirt track, footpath, path, track

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• path
• track

Anagrams

• TRALI, irtal, litra, trial

French

Noun

trail f (plural trails)

1. Dual-sport motorcycle
2. Trail running

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