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Gambol vs Trackback - What's the difference?

gambol | trackback |

As nouns the difference between gambol and trackback

is that gambol is an instance of running or skipping about playfully while trackback is (uncountable|computing) a method to keep track of links to content, especially blog entries.

As a verb gambol

is to move about playfully; to frolic.

gambol

English

Verb

  • To move about playfully; to frolic.
  • * 1835 : (Harper)
  • The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled .
  • * 1907 : Paul Lafargue, The rights of the horse , page 160
  • […] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown.
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  • In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.
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  • * 1995 : Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer , page 286 (ISBN 0553380966)
  • Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows.
  • (British, West Midlands) to do a forward roll
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
  • * 1843 : , The Gold Bug , page 10
  • When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted.
  • An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.
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  • trackback

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (software, Internet, blogging) A protocol for a system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it.
  • See also

    * (wikipedia "TrackBack")

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