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Strider

Definition: Strider

Strider

Noun

1. 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-skaterGerris lacustris. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Strider

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Strider is an alias of Aragorn, a Lord of the Rings character.

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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Commercial Usage: Strider

DomainTitle

Books

  • Beverly Cleary: Ellen Tebbits: Runaway Ralph: The Mouse and the Motorcycle: Strider (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Strider

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)50%2245,945
Noun (singular)50%2245,945
                    Total100.00%4N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Strider

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
StriderLast name30026,001
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Strider

Expression using "strider": water strider. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Strider

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

strider

174

strider aragorn

4

strider knife

91

elliptical strider

4

hiryu strider

47

buck strider knife

3

strider water

40

north face strider jacket

3

strider 2

21

capcom strider

3

dna strider

20

estate real strider

3

blazin squad strider

9

weslo air strider

3

lord of the ring strider

8

hiryu strider wallpaper

3

rom strider

8

nes strider through walk

3

ez strider

7

blazin from squad strider

3

buck strider

7

fitness strider

3

pic strider

6

nolan publishing strider

3

hiryu pic strider

6

strider walker

3

hiryu picture strider

6

air dp strider

3

genesis rom strider

5

mugen strider

2

instep ez strider

5

air strider

2

foldaway elliptical strider

5

blazin picture squad strider

2

ez shoes strider

5

hien strider

2

sng strider

4

2 hiryu strider

2

picture strider

4

nes rom strider

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Strider

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

   

Swedish

  

skräddare (fashioner, sewer, tailor, water strider), vattenlöpare (water strider). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Strider

Derivations

Words beginning with "strider": striders. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Strider"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "strider" (pronounced strī"der)
4-r ī" d errider.
3-ī" d ercider, collider, divider, glider, Guider, hider, insider, outsider, provider, slider, Snider, spider, supercollider, wider.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Strider

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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