Čo znamená astride v angličtine a aká je definícia astride?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť astride výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

astride Význam & definícia

0 with a leg on each side of something:
- She sat proudly astride her new motorbike.
- figurative The town lies astride (= on either side of) the River Havel.
1 with legs wide apart:
- He stood there, legs astride.
2 with one leg on either side (of something):
- He sat astride a horse.

He was good enough to tell me before he left that some minor technical adjustment was required to that technological wonder which sits astride his splendid brow.
Instead, a cab for the engineer was placed above and astride the boiler.
He sits astride the whole of rugby as the ultimate athlete on the pitch.
Situated astride one of the world's historic trade routes, its prosperity has risen and fallen with that trade.
The carriages sat astride the trestles like panniers.
Flat cars are arranged with foot boards so that driver and passengers sit astride the track.
Far from demure, she performed daring stunts and rode astride, like her brothers.
The driver no longer sat astride the machine which was built with more conventional forward facing seats in the front.