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Strides vs Gallop - What's the difference?

strides | gallop |

As nouns the difference between strides and gallop

is that strides is plural of lang=en while gallop is the fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

As verbs the difference between strides and gallop

is that strides is third-person singular of stride while gallop is (Intransitive. Of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.

strides

English

Noun

(head)
  • (plurale tantum, UK, Australia) Trousers.
  • * 2004 , Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga , Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, page 97,
    • So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot?s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides .
  • * 2006 , Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman , AuthorHouse, page 173,
    • He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides , nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.
  • * 2007 , Antony Agar, Queensland Ringer , page 211,
    • His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.
  • * 1994 , , 2008, unnumbered page,
    • I thought of Des and May?s daughters, then of Gleaves, and resolved to borrow a pair of strides from Cliff, to keep the tie-wearing penile-challenged toss-bag oaf ma case.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stride)
    • ----

    gallop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Intransitive. Of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.
    • The horse galloped past the finishing line.
  • To ride at a galloping pace.
  • * John Donne
    • Gallop lively down the western hill.
  • To cause to gallop.
    • to gallop a horse
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 15 , author=Amy Lawrence , title=Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=In the 11th minute the German won possession in midfield and teed up the galloping Kieran Gibbs, whose angled shot was pushed by Kelvin Davies straight into the retreating Jos Hooiveld.}}
  • (figurative) To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
  • * John Locke
    • Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.