stride
/stɹaɪd/ noun C2- A long step in walking. · She set off with a purposeful stride.
- The distance covered by a long step.
- The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- 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.
Plural strides
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“Why, the height of a man, in nine cases out of ten, can be told from the length of his stride.
I had this fellow’s stride both on the clay outside and on the dust within.
“Well, if a man can stride four and a-half feet without the smallest effort, he can’t be quite in the sere and yellow.
In this way my second link was formed, which told me that the nocturnal visitors were two in number, one remarkable for his height (as I calculated from the length of his stride), and the other fashionably dressed, to judge from the small and elegant impression left by his boots.
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