stride
A long step in walkingA long step in walking.
» Doctors have made great strides in their fight against cancer.
Врачи добились больших успехов в борьбе с раком. — odexed
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4 senses(countable)A long step in walking.
She set off with a purposeful stride.
a step in walking or running
(countable)The distance covered by a long step.
the distance covered by a step
(countable)The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
(uncountable)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.
Examples
49 sentencesDoctors have made great strides in their fight against cancer.
ruВрачи добились больших успехов в борьбе с раком. — odexed
Tom took it all in stride.
Tom seems to be taking things in stride.
Tom took it in stride.
deTom hat es spielend leicht geschafft. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
He took it in his stride.
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the vFrom Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.
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plural: stridesSynonyms
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable