Trot vs Coast - 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.
(obsolete) The side or edge of something.
The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.
(obsolete) A region of land; a district or country.
* 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 2:
*, II.ii.3:
(obsolete) A region of the air or heavens.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
To glide along without adding energy.
(nautical) To sail along a coast.
* Arbuthnot
Applied to human behavior, to make a minimal effort, to continue to do something in a routine way. This implies lack of initiative and effort.
* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, "
(obsolete) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
* Hakluyt
(US, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.
Trot is a related term of coast.
As nouns the difference between trot and coast
is that trot is trotskyist while coast is (obsolete) the side or edge of something.As a verb coast is
to glide along without adding energy.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) ----coast
English
(wikipedia coast)Noun
(en noun)- (Sir Isaac Newton)
- The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.
- Then Herod perceavynge that he was moocked off the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in bethleem, and in all the costes thereof […].
- P. Crescentius, in his lib.'' 1 ''de agric. cap. 5, is very copious in this subject, how a house should be wholesomely sited, in a good coast , good air, wind, etc.
- the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […].
Hypernyms
* shore, shorelineHyponyms
* oceanfront, seashoreDerived terms
* coast fox * coast guard, coastguard * coast rat * coast-to-coast * coastal * coaster * coastland * coastline * coastward * coastwatcher * coastwiseVerb
(en verb)- When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.
- The ancients coasted only in their navigation.
Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
- Anon she hears them chant it lustily, / And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.
- (Hakluyt)
- Nearchus, not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore.
- The Indians coasted me along the river.