transcription, транскрипция: [ stræd(ə)l ]
( straddles, straddling, straddled)
1.
If you straddle something, you put or have one leg on either side of it.
He sat down, straddling the chair.
VERB : V n
2.
If something straddles a river, road, border, or other place, it stretches across it or exists on both sides of it.
A small wooden bridge straddled the dike.
...this town that straddles the US-Mexico border.
VERB : V n , V n
3.
Someone or something that straddles different periods, groups, or fields of activity exists in, belongs to, or takes elements from them all.
He straddles two cultures, having been brought up in Britain and later converted to Islam.
VERB : V n