Trot vs Rush - What's the difference?
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(archaic, disparaging) An ugly old woman, a hag.“
(chiefly, of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
* 2000 , Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility ,
* 2008 , Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse , Elsevier,
* 2009 , Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show ,
A gait of a person faster than a walk.
A toddler.
* 1855 , '', 1869, ''The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray'', Volume V: ''The Newcomes, Volume I ,
(obsolete) A young animal.
(dance) A moderately rapid dance.
(mildly disparaging)
(Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
A run of luck or fortune.
* 1994 , Noel Virtue, Sandspit Crossing ,
* 2004 , John Mosig, Ric Fallu, Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to Aquaculture , 2nd Edition,
To walk rapidly.
(of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
Any of several stiff aquatic or marsh plants of the genus Juncus , having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers.
The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
The merest trifle; a straw.
* (rfdate) (Arbuthnot)
A sudden forward motion.
* Sir H. Wotton
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 A surge.
General haste.
A rapid, noisy flow.
(military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
(contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
A rusher; a lineman.
A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
(US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities]] and [[sorority, sororities.
(US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
(croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
* (Thomas Sprat) (1635–1730)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author=
, volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (label) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= To dribble rapidly.
To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
(label) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
To make a swift or sudden attack.
(label) To swiftly attach to without warning.
(label) To transport or carry quickly.
To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.
Trot is a related term of rush.
As a noun trot
is trotskyist.As a proper noun rush is
(computing) a dialect of the language.trot
English
(wikipedia trot)Noun
(en noun)Trot”, entry in 2008 , Anatolij Simonovi? Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction , page 208.
page 14,
- Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot , pace, and gallop.
page 154,
- The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot'.The slow '''trot''' is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the '''trot''' of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended ' trot .
page 65,
- To assume the correct position for the posting trot', first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting '''trot at six miles an hour. ''Do not post.
page 123,
- but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.
- He?s had a good trot , but his luck will end soon.
page 34,
- It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.
page 21,
- Should he or she be having a bad trot , the exchange rate will be higher than normal.
Synonyms
* (gait of an animal between walk and canter) * (ugly old woman) See * (gait of a person faster than a walk) jogDerived terms
* foxtrot * on the trot * trotter * turkey trotVerb
(trott)Derived terms
* hot to trotSynonyms
* (to walk rapidly) jog, pace ** See also ,References
Anagrams
* (l) ----rush
English
(wikipedia rush)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rusch, risch, from (etyl) rysc, risc, from (etyl) ).Noun
(rushes)- John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush .
Etymology 2
Perhaps from (etyl) ruschen, . More at (l). (etymology note) An alternative etymology traces rush'' via (etyl) . Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of (etyl) russher, , although connection to the same (etyl) root is also possible. More at ''rouse .Noun
(rushes)- A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush , severed him from the duke.
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.
- the center rush , whose place is in the center of the rush line
Derived terms
* adrenalin rush * bum's rush * rush goalie * rush hour * rush job * sugar rushVerb
(es)- Theynever think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers.
John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
- Like to an entered tide, they all rush by.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(-)- a rush job