What is the difference between walking and striding?
Example: And he strode back into his cabin as someone knocked at the front door.
What is the meaning of "strode" here and what would change in terms of meaning if I changed it to:
1. He walked back into his cabin.
2. He went back into his cabin.
Thanks, sirs.
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Hey there!
Domateai is right. To stride is to walk with long, extended steps.
"strode" is therefore the past tense of "stride".
Both sentence (1 and 2) are the same. All that changes is the image we see in our minds: "stride" is more purposeful and "walk" gives us the image of leisure and less purposeful.
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"Walking" is the basic word. There are other words for specific ways of walking. "Striding" means to extend the legs more, take long steps, and thus walk quickly. "Marching" means to walk as soldiers do, quickly and with an even, rhythmic pace. "Shuffling" means to walk slowly, in short steps, not completely lifting the feet so they make a scraping noise on the ground, like someone old and feeble.
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walk + a long step = stride
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