strides

1. 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.

1. A long step in walking.
2. The distance covered by a long step.
3. The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
4. 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.

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Trousers.