Gallop vs Accelerate - What's the difference?
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The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
(Intransitive. Of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.
To ride at a galloping pace.
* John Donne
To cause to gallop.
To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
To run very fast.
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(figurative) To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
* John Locke
(label) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
(label) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
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(label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
(label) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
(label) Grow; increase.
(label)
(rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
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Gallop is a related term of accelerate.
As verbs the difference between gallop and accelerate
is that gallop is (intransitive of a horse, etc) to run at a gallop while accelerate is (label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.As a noun gallop
is the fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.As an adjective accelerate is
(rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.gallop
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The horse galloped past the finishing line.
- Gallop lively down the western hill.
- to gallop a horse
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- Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.
accelerate
English
Verb
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Synonyms
* advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed upAntonyms
* decelerate * retardDerived terms
* accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating forceAdjective
- ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.