stride

Meanings

Plural: strides

Noun

• a step in walking or running
• the distance covered by a step
• significant progress (especially in the phrase )
  • "make strides"
  • "they made big strides in productivity"
• A long step in walking.
• 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.

Verb

• walk with long steps
• cover or traverse by taking long steps
• To walk with long steps.
• To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
• To pass over at a step; to step over.
• To straddle; to bestride.

Synonyms

footstep, pace, step, tread