stride

«stride» in Mova's school dictionary: to walk with long, quick, confident steps — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a stride, strides); verb (stride, strides, strode, stridden, striding)

meaning for a pupil

1) To stride is to walk with long, quick, confident steps. tree →

2) A stride is one long step, or the length of a step. tree →

3) «Make strides» or «make great strides» means to make good progress, to get better. tree →

4) «Take it in your stride» means to deal with a problem calmly. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE and running, «stride length» is how far one step reaches; athletes lengthen their stride to run faster. In maths and science you can measure a distance by counting strides — a non-standard unit. In stories «he strode into the room» shows confidence or anger. Teachers write in reports «you have made great strides in reading». Phrases: «get into your stride», «take something in your stride», «make strides».

examples

• He strode across the playground. tree →
• The giant took huge strides. tree →
• Measure the classroom in strides. tree →
• Her stride is longer than mine. tree →
• You've made great strides in maths this year. tree →
• She took the bad news in her stride. tree →
• The runner got into her stride after the first lap. tree →
• In two strides he reached the door. tree →

note

Irregular: stride, strode, stridden. «Strode» is the past (he strode), «stridden» is rare. A stride is a long step; a «step» can be short. Maths: if one stride is 1 metre, 25 strides ≈ 25 metres.

In the corpora

• In stride the four friends: Badger with his great stick, Mole shouting his war-cry «A Mole!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stride» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.