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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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slide
English
Etymology
From Middle English sliden, from Old English sl?dan (“to slide”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?dan? (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléyd?-e-ti, from *sleyd?- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German sl?tan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German sl?den (“to slide”), Middle Dutch sl?den (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit ??????? (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Verb
slide (third-person singular simple present slides, present participle sliding, simple past slid, past participle slid or (archaic) slidden)
- (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface
- (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
- c. 1685, Edmund Waller, Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks
- They bathe in summer, and in winter slide.
- c. 1685, Edmund Waller, Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks
- (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
- (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- (music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.
- (regional) To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- Synonyms: toboggan, sled
Derived terms
- aslide
- let slide
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suraido)
Translations
Noun
slide (plural slides)
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- (photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- (by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dana to this entry?)
- (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- (clothing) A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
- (speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
- (vulgar slang) a promiscuous woman, slut
Synonyms
- (item of play equipment): slippery dip
- (inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity): chute
- (mechanism of a part which slides on or against a guide): runner
Hyponyms
- helter-skelter
Derived terms
- (transparent plate bearing an image): slide projector, slide viewer
Descendants
- ? Czech: slajd
- ? Japanese: ???? (suraido)
- ? Portuguese: slide
Translations
Anagrams
- Diels, Seidl, delis, idles, isled, leids, sidle, siled, sleid
Danish
Etymology
from Old Norse slíta, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan?, cognate with Swedish slita, English slit, German schleißen, Dutch slijten,
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sli?ð?]
Verb
slide (imperative slid, infinitive at slide, present tense slider, past tense sled, perfect tense har slidt)
- labour; work hard
- chafe
Inflection
Middle English
Verb
slide
- Alternative form of sliden
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English slide.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /iz.?laj.d??i/, /?slajd??/, /?zlajd??/, /?slajd/
Noun
slide m (plural slides)
- slide (transparent image for projecting)
- Synonyms: transparência, diapositivo
- slide (a frame in a slideshow)
- (music) slide (device for playing slide guitar)
- (music) slide (guitar technique where the player moves finger up or down the fretboard)
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