nose vs stride

nose

noun
  • A downward projection from a cornice. 

  • The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece. 

  • The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race. 

  • Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine. 

  • The skill in recognising bouquet. 

  • A perfumer. 

  • An informer. 

  • A snout, the nose of an animal. 

  • A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell. 

  • The power of smelling. 

  • Skill at finding information. 

  • The tip of an object. 

verb
  • To furnish with a nose. 

  • To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out. 

  • To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang. 

  • To detect by smell or as if by smell. 

  • To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to. 

  • To snoop. 

  • To move cautiously by advancing its front end. 

  • To push with one's nose; to nuzzle. 

stride

noun
  • The distance covered by a long step. 

  • A long step in walking. 

  • A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats. 

  • The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc. 

verb
  • To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. 

  • To walk with long steps. 

  • To straddle; to bestride. 

  • To pass over at a step; to step over. 

How often have the words nose and stride occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )