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traipse
English
Alternative forms
- trapes
Etymology
Likely from French trépasser (“pass over or beyond”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?e?ps/, /t???e?ps/
- Rhymes: -e?ps
Verb
traipse (third-person singular simple present traipses, present participle traipsing, simple past and past participle traipsed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
- 1728, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book III, ll. 140-4:
- Lo next two slipshod Muses traipse along, In lofty madness, meditating song, / With tresses staring from poetic dreams, / And never wash'd, but in Castalia’s streams [...].
- 1728, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book III, ll. 140-4:
- (intransitive, colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
- (transitive, colloquial) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort; to walk about or over (a place).
Synonyms
- (walk about): gad, travel, walk
- (walk about or over (a place)): cover, travel, traverse
Related terms
- trespass
Translations
Noun
traipse (plural traipses)
- A long or tiring walk.
- It was a long traipse uphill all the way home.
Synonyms
- (long or tiring walk): hike, trek
Translations
Anagrams
- @ parties, Pirates, Prestia, airstep, eartips, parties, pastier, piaster, piastre, pirates, praties, rapiest, raspite, tapiser
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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)
- (intransitive) To walk with long steps.
- Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.
- To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
- To pass over at a step; to step over.
- 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)
- (countable) A long step in walking.
- (countable) The distance covered by a long step.
- (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 […]
- 2007, Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful Code
- (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)
- to fight, struggle
- (passive) to dispute, quarrel, fight
References
- “stride” in Den Danske Ordbog
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ide
Verb
stride
- third-person singular present indicative of stridere
Anagrams
- destri
Latin
Verb
str?de
- 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)
- to battle, fight, struggle
- to conflict (with)
References
- “stride” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
stride
- definite singular of strid
- plural of strid
Swedish
Adjective
stride
- absolute definite natural masculine form of strid.
Anagrams
- Estrid, tiders
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