stepping vs stride

stepping

noun
  • The act of taking a step. 

  • A specific iteration of a model of central processing unit, often distinguished by the addition or removal of features compared to earlier examples of the same processor, or the presence, or lack thereof, of specific bugs. 

stride

noun
  • A long step in walking. 

  • The distance covered by a long step. 

  • 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 stepping and stride occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )