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Definition: Strider |
StriderNoun1. A person who walks rapidly with long steps; "he was such a strider that she couldn't keep up without running". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Strider |
| English words defined with "strider": common pond-skater ♦ Gerris lacustris. (references) |
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Strider is also the name of a video game made by Capcom for the NES, Sega Megadrive and Sega Genesis.
Strider is also Richard Alston's innovative dance company.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Strider."
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Strider" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Strider" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "strider" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Strider | Last name | 300 | 26,001 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "strider": water strider. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "strider"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | διασκελίζων. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 飴坊 (water strider, water-skater), 水黽 (pond skater, water strider). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あめ"ぼう (stick of candy, water strider, water-skater), あめ"ぼ (pond skater, water strider, water-skater). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iderstray skräddare (fashioner, sewer, tailor, water strider), vattenlöpare (water strider). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "strider": striders. (additional references) | |
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"Strider" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astrider, strander, streer, Streuer, stricer, stridle, striger, stritter, Strodder, trider. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "strider" (pronounced strī"der) |
| 4 | -r ī" d er | rider. |
| 3 | -ī" d er | cider, collider, divider, glider, Guider, hider, insider, outsider, provider, slider, Snider, spider, supercollider, wider. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stirred. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: derris, direst, driers, driest, riders, stride, triers. | |
-2 letters: deist, diets, direr, dirts, dites, drest, drier, dries, edits, resid, rider, rides, riser, rites, sired, sited, stied, tides, tiers, tired, tires, tried, trier, tries. | |
-3 letters: dies, diet, dire, dirt, dite, dits, edit, errs, erst, ides, ired, ires, reds, reis, rest, rets, ride, rids, rise, rite. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: destrier, drifters, redshirt, striders, sturdier. | |
+2 letters: bestirred, creditors, destriers, directors, disrupter, distorter, disturber, ditherers, diverters, dreariest, instarred, intruders, outriders, recordist, redirects, redshirts, roistered, torridest, upstirred, verditers. | |
+3 letters: advertiser, cartridges, descriptor, directress, discreeter, disrupters, distorters, distrainer, disturbers, interlards, irradiates, irredentas, irridentas, overstride, partridges, predictors, recordists, redistrict, redshirted, registered, reinserted, reradiates, restrained, restricted, retrodicts, rinderpest, shirtdress, spiderwort, surprinted, terrorised, torridness, traditores, transpired, trihedrals, trihedrons, undershirt, underskirt, waterbirds. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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