Footprint vs Stride - What's the Difference?
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
- 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"