Strides vs Strives - What's the difference?
strides | strives |
(plurale tantum, UK, Australia) Trousers.
* 2004 , Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga , Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press,
* 2006 , Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman , AuthorHouse,
* 2007 , Antony Agar, Queensland Ringer ,
* 1994 , , 2008,
(stride)
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(strive)
To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
* Denham
To vie; to compete as a rival.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between strides and strives
is that strides is third-person singular of stride while strives is third-person singular of strive.As a noun strides
is plural of lang=en.strides
English
Noun
(head)page 97,
- So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot?s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides .
page 173,
- He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides , nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.
page 211,
- His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.
unnumbered page,
- I thought of Des and May?s daughters, then of Gleaves, and resolved to borrow a pair of strides from Cliff, to keep the tie-wearing penile-challenged toss-bag oaf ma case.
Verb
(head)strives
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*strive
English
Verb
- He strove to excel.
- to strive against fate
- to strive for the truth
- Now private pity strove with public hate, / Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
- [Not] that sweet grove / Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired / Castalian spring, might with this paradise / Of Eden strive .