different between striking vs striding

English

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

striking (comparative more striking, superlative most striking)

1. Making a strong impression.

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

   • 2016 February 6, "Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace," The National (retrieved 8 February 2016):

     This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro.

Translations

Verb

striking

1. present participle of strike

Noun

striking (plural strikings)

1. The act by which something strikes or is struck.
   • 2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)

     We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?

Anagrams

• skirting

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English strydyng, stridende, strydand, from Old English str?dende, from Proto-Germanic *str?dandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *str?dan? (“to endeavour; stand tall; withstand; take long steps”), equivalent to stride +? -ing.

Verb

striding

1. present participle of stride

Etymology 2

From Middle English strydynge, equivalent to stride +? -ing.

Noun

striding (countable and uncountable, plural stridings)

1. The act of one who strides; a long step.
   • 1804, Thomas Brown, Poems (page 191)

     How broad, amid those pines, the torch-flame red / Flings its dark flashes; and those steps, that fall, / Heavy, and slow, no voice amid their call, / Sound, like the giant-stridings of the dead!

2. (skiing, uncountable) A technique for propelling forward that appears similar to walking, where a foot slides forward on the opposite side of a pole being planted to provide a location to apply force.

Synonyms

(skiing):

• classic striding
• striding technique

Coordinate terms

(skiing):

• skating
• double poling

Anagrams

• tridings