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# straddle

«straddle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to stand or sit with one leg on each side of something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (straddles, straddled, straddling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To straddle is to stand or sit with one leg on each side of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straddle/#m1)

2) To straddle is to stretch across both sides of something, like a bridge across a river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straddle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a giant or hero stands with legs wide over a river, hill or fence; the bridge straddles the river

### examples

- She straddled the bench to climb over it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straddle/#x1)
- The bridge straddles the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straddle/#x2)
- He straddled the log and rode it across the stream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straddle/#x3)
- The giant straddled the valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straddle/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «straddle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straddle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.