Footprint vs Stride - What's the Difference?

Footprint

Stride

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important
  • the area taken up by some object
  • a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
Definition as Noun
  • significant progress (especially in the phrase `make strides')
  • the distance covered by a step
  • a step in walking or running
Definition as Verb
Definition as Verb
  • walk with long steps
  • cover or traverse by taking long steps

Examples

  • "the footprints of an earlier civilization"
  • "the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches"
  • "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"
  • "they made big strides in productivity"
  • "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"
  • "He strode confidently across the hall"
  • "She strode several miles towards the woods"

Parts of Speech

Noun
Noun, Verb