Straddle
verb
To sit or stand with one leg on each side of something.
She straddled the bicycle and pedaled away.
Often appears as...
- straddle the fence
- straddle a horse
verb
To exist within two different positions or be between two things.
His interests straddle both science and art.
Often appears as...
- straddle theory and practice
- straddle past and present
verb
In finance, to buy options for the same stock for both calls (going up) and puts (going down), expecting the price to change significantly.
The investor decided to straddle the stock, as they predicted its value would greatly fluctuate soon.
Often appears as...
- straddle strategy
- long straddle
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Technical
verb
To sit or stand with one leg on each side of something.
She straddled the bicycle and pedaled away.
Often appears as...
- straddle the fence
- straddle a horse
verb
To exist within two different positions or be between two things.
His interests straddle both science and art.
Often appears as...
- straddle theory and practice
- straddle past and present
verb
In finance, to buy options for the same stock for both calls (going up) and puts (going down), expecting the price to change significantly.
The investor decided to straddle the stock, as they predicted its value would greatly fluctuate soon.
Often appears as...
- straddle strategy
- long straddle
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Position
Used to describe someone actually sitting or standing with legs apart over something.
The child straddled the stream, avoiding getting their shoes wet.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Posture
Often implies a balanced or neutral stance, physically or metaphorically.
The leader straddled the issue, not siding with either group.
Pro Tip 3/3Indecision
Can suggest hesitation or difficulty in making a decision between two options.
He continues to straddle when asked to choose between two job offers.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Position
Used to describe someone actually sitting or standing with legs apart over something.
The child straddled the stream, avoiding getting their shoes wet.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Posture
Often implies a balanced or neutral stance, physically or metaphorically.
The leader straddled the issue, not siding with either group.
Pro Tip 3/3Indecision
Can suggest hesitation or difficulty in making a decision between two options.
He continues to straddle when asked to choose between two job offers.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Position
Used to describe someone actually sitting or standing with legs apart over something.
The child straddled the stream, avoiding getting their shoes wet.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Posture
Often implies a balanced or neutral stance, physically or metaphorically.
The leader straddled the issue, not siding with either group.
Pro Tip 3/3Indecision
Can suggest hesitation or difficulty in making a decision between two options.
He continues to straddle when asked to choose between two job offers.
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Video examples
An athlete uses physics...
But when he couldn't compete against the strong athletes at his college using the standard high jump techniques of the time, Fosbury tried to jump a different backwards. Instead of jumping with his face towards the bar, bringing each leg over in the traditional straddle method,
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Jennifer Aaker and Naomi...
versus what we think. And I'm a corporate strategist who spent my career straddling the worlds of business and improv comedy. Which was a wide straddle. The two of us are on a mission to bring humor back. Over the last decade, we have gathered data, partnered with comedians
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Rob Hopkins: Transition...
at what we might call the petroleum interval, it's a short period in history where we've discovered this extraordinary material, and then based a whole way of life around it. But as we straddle the top of this energy mountain, at this stage,
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What a driverless world...
our urban transportation is mostly two-dimensional. And so what we need is to embrace that verticality. If our surface grid is saturated, well, let's elevate our traffic. This Chinese concept of a bus that can straddle traffic jams --
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A little-told tale of...
Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins. That I chose to look at sex comes from my background in HIV/AIDS, as a writer and a researcher and an activist.
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Sheikha Al Mayassa:...
they are in the same position. We're continuously trying to straddle different worlds, different cultures and trying to meet the challenges of a different expectation from ourselves and from others. So I want to ask a
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Kalani Queypo: Playing...
modern world you straddle traditional and modern you you battle with the values of your people of the past and and what's happening right now there's one point where I'm incapacitated and
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Saving the Mountain...
gorillas becomes truly an emotional experience the home of the largest surviving population of mountain gorillas is the virunga's a chain of rugged volcanoes that straddle three
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Before I die I want...
before I die I want to straddle the International Dateline before I die I want to sing for millions before I die I
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Before I die I want...
"Before I die, I want to straddle the International Dateline." "Before I die, I want to sing for millions."
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An athlete uses physics...
But when he couldn't compete against the strong athletes at his college using the standard high jump techniques of the time, Fosbury tried to jump a different backwards. Instead of jumping with his face towards the bar, bringing each leg over in the traditional straddle method,
Video examples
Jennifer Aaker and Naomi...
versus what we think. And I'm a corporate strategist who spent my career straddling the worlds of business and improv comedy. Which was a wide straddle. The two of us are on a mission to bring humor back. Over the last decade, we have gathered data, partnered with comedians
Video examples
Rob Hopkins: Transition...
at what we might call the petroleum interval, it's a short period in history where we've discovered this extraordinary material, and then based a whole way of life around it. But as we straddle the top of this energy mountain, at this stage,
Video examples
What a driverless world...
our urban transportation is mostly two-dimensional. And so what we need is to embrace that verticality. If our surface grid is saturated, well, let's elevate our traffic. This Chinese concept of a bus that can straddle traffic jams --
Video examples
A little-told tale of...
Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins. That I chose to look at sex comes from my background in HIV/AIDS, as a writer and a researcher and an activist.
Video examples
Sheikha Al Mayassa:...
they are in the same position. We're continuously trying to straddle different worlds, different cultures and trying to meet the challenges of a different expectation from ourselves and from others. So I want to ask a
Video examples
Kalani Queypo: Playing...
modern world you straddle traditional and modern you you battle with the values of your people of the past and and what's happening right now there's one point where I'm incapacitated and
Video examples
Saving the Mountain...
gorillas becomes truly an emotional experience the home of the largest surviving population of mountain gorillas is the virunga's a chain of rugged volcanoes that straddle three
Video examples
Before I die I want...
before I die I want to straddle the International Dateline before I die I want to sing for millions before I die I
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Before I die I want...
"Before I die, I want to straddle the International Dateline." "Before I die, I want to sing for millions."
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Quote examples
Phil Hellmuth
American Celebrity
Some players like to add a little more spice to their no-limit Hold 'em game. They add a live blind, also known as a straddle, where the player to the left of the big blind voluntarily puts up twice the big blind before looking at his hole cards. The player in the straddle then has the option to raise it up when the action returns to him.
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Paul Rust
American Actor
The thing that I like about Pee-wee is it can exist on the level of midnight college cult movies that the hip kids are into and, at the same time, it could be something a kid and his family watch together. Being able to straddle both lines of being subversive and, at the same time, very inclusive - I love that about the character.
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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.
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Tom Waits
American Musician
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Gunter Grass
German Author
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
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Neil Patrick Harris
American Actor
I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.
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Sam Taylor-Johnson
English Director
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar
British Comedian
My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.
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Mariette Hartley
American Actress
I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.
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Sydney Pollack
American Director
I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood.
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Phil Hellmuth
American Celebrity
Some players like to add a little more spice to their no-limit Hold 'em game. They add a live blind, also known as a straddle, where the player to the left of the big blind voluntarily puts up twice the big blind before looking at his hole cards. The player in the straddle then has the option to raise it up when the action returns to him.
Quote examples
Paul Rust
American Actor
The thing that I like about Pee-wee is it can exist on the level of midnight college cult movies that the hip kids are into and, at the same time, it could be something a kid and his family watch together. Being able to straddle both lines of being subversive and, at the same time, very inclusive - I love that about the character.
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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.
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Tom Waits
American Musician
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Quote examples
Gunter Grass
German Author
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
Quote examples
Neil Patrick Harris
American Actor
I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.
Quote examples
Sam Taylor-Johnson
English Director
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
Quote examples
Sanjeev Bhaskar
British Comedian
My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.
Quote examples
Mariette Hartley
American Actress
I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.
Quote examples
Sydney Pollack
American Director
I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood.
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