What is "stride"

Stride \Stride\, v. t. [imp. Strode(Obs. Strid); p. p. Stridden(Obs. Strid); p. pr. & vb. n. Striding.] [AS. str[=i]dan to stride, to strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. str[=i]da to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG. str[=i]tan; of uncertain origin. Cf. Straddle.]

1. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.

   Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field.
   --Dryden.

2. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.

Stride \Stride\, v. t.

1. To pass over at a step; to step over. ``A debtor that not dares to stride a limit.''
   --Shak.

2. To straddle; to bestride.

   I mean to stride your steed.
   --Shak.

Stride \Stride\, n. The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride.
--Pope.

God never meant that man should scale the heavens By strides of human wisdom.
--Cowper.

Old English stridan (past tense strad, past participle striden), "to straddle, mount" (a horse), from Proto-Germanic *stridanan (cognates: Middle Low German strede "stride, strive;" Old Saxon stridian, Danish stride, Swedish strida "to fight," Dutch stridjen, Old High German stritan, German etreiten "to fight, contend, struggle," Old Norse striðr "strong, hard, stubborn, severe").\n

\nThe sense connection in the various Germanic forms is perhaps "strive, make a strong effort;" the senses having to do with walking and standing are found only in English and Low German. Meaning "to walk with long or extended steps" is from c.1200. Cognate words in most Germanic languages mean "to fight, struggle;" the notion behind the English usage might be the effort involved in making long strides, striving forward.

"a step in walking," especially a long one, from Old English stride "a stride, a step," from the root of stride (v.). Compare Dutch strijd, Old High German strit, German Streit "fight, contention, combat," Swedish and Danish strid "combat, contention." From c.1300 as a measure of distance roughly the length of a stride. Figurative meaning "advance rapidly, make progress" is from c.1600. Of animals (especially horses) from early 17c. To take (something) in stride (1832), i.e. "without change of gait," originally is of horses leaping hedges in the hunting-field; figurative sense attested from 1902. To hit (one's) stride is from horse-racing. Jazz music stride tempo is attested from 1938. Meaning "a standing with the legs apart, a straddle" is from 1590s.

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To walk with long steps. 2 To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. 3 To pass over at a step; to step over. 4 To straddle; to bestride. Etymology 2

n. A long step.

1. v. walk with long steps; "He strode confidently across the hall"

2. cover or traverse by taking long steps; "She strode several miles towards the woods"

3. [also: strode, stridden]

1. n. a step in walking or running [syn: pace, tread]

2. the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig" [syn: footstep, pace, step]

3. significant progress (especially in the phrase "make strides"); "they made big strides in productivity"

4. [also: strode, stridden]

In protein structure, STRIDE (Structural identification) is an algorithm for the assignment of protein secondary structure elements given the atomic coordinates of the protein, as defined by X-ray crystallography, protein NMR, or another protein structure determination method. In addition to the hydrogen bond criteria used by the more common DSSP algorithm, the STRIDE assignment criteria also include dihedral angle potentials. As such, its criteria for defining individual secondary structures are more complex than those of DSSP. The STRIDE energy function contains a hydrogen-bond term containing a Lennard-Jones-like 8-6 distance-dependent potential and two angular dependence factors reflecting the planarity of the optimized hydrogen bond geometry. The criteria for individual secondary structural elements, which are divided into the same groups as those reported by DSSP, also contain statistical probability factors derived from empirical examinations of solved structures with visually assigned secondary structure elements extracted from the Protein Data Bank.

Although DSSP is the older method and continues to be the most commonly used, the original STRIDE definition reported it to give a more satisfactory structural assignment in at least 70% of cases. In particular, STRIDE was observed to correct for the propensity of DSSP to assign shorter secondary structures than would be assigned by an expert crystallographer, usually due to the minor local variations in structure that are most common near the termini of secondary structure elements. Using a sliding-window method to smooth variations in assignment of single terminal residues, current implementations of STRIDE and DSSP are reported to agree in up to 95.4% of cases. Both STRIDE and DSSP, among other common secondary structure assignment methods, are believed to underpredict pi helices.

Stride is American progressive metal band that formed in Houston in 1996. They currently have three releases including the 2003 album Bah Humbug which is an album of Christmas songs. Stride also played in the ProgPower USA VI music festival.

Stride is a brand of chewing gum created by Cadbury (owned by Mondelēz International). Its packs usually consist of 14 pieces of gum.

Stride may refer to:

• Darren Stride, (born 1976), world traveller, self-employed business man
• Darren Stride, (born 1975), English professional footballer
• David Stride, (born 1958), former English professional footballer
• Elizabeth Stride, (1843–1888), murder victim
• John Stride, (born 1936), English actor
• Mel Stride, British politician
• Steve Stride, (born c.1950), former operations director of Aston Villa FC
• Virginia Stride, British actress

Harlem Stride Piano, stride piano, commonly abbreviated to stride, is a jazz piano style that was developed in the large cities of the US East Coast, mainly New York, during 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. Occasionally this pattern is reversed by placing the chord on the downbeat and bass note(s) on the upbeat. Unlike performers of the ragtime popularized by Scott Joplin and unlike much early jazz, stride players' left hands often leapt greater distances on the keyboard, and they played in a wider range of tempos and with a greater emphasis on improvisation.

STRIDE is a system developed by Microsoft for thinking about computer security threats. It provides a mnemonic for security threats in six categories.

The threat categories are:

• Spoofing of user identity
• Tampering
• Repudiation
• Information disclosure ( privacy breach or data leak)
• Denial of service (D.o.S)
• Elevation of privilege

The STRIDE name comes from the initials of the six threat categories listed. It was initially proposed for threat modelling, but is now used more broadly.