Trot vs Pad - What's the difference?
trot | pad |
(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.
A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
A soft, or small, cushion.
A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
A sanitary napkin.
(US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
(cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
A keypad.
A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord"
The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
(US, slang) A bed.
(colloquial) A place of residence.
(cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
A mousepad.
(nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
To stuff.
To furnish with a pad or padding.
To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
(cricket) to deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
(British, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track. See footpad.
An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
* Tennyson
(British, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
The act of highway robbery.
(British, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
To travel along (a road, path etc.).
* Somerville
To travel on foot.
To wear a path by walking.
To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
(obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
* (Cotton Mather)
The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
As nouns the difference between trot and pad
is that trot is trotskyist while pad is fall (move to a lower position).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) ----pad
English
Etymology 1
1554, "bundle of straw to lie on", .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
{{der3, gamepad , incontinence pad , joypad , keypad , launchpad , mousepad , notepad , one-time pad , sleeping pad , touchpad , trackpad}}Verb
(padd)- The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends.
- "Obama pads delegate lead ... with win in key western state."'' Austin American-Statesman ''newspaper, May 21, 2008.
- to pad cloth
Derived terms
* well-paddedEtymology 2
From (etyl) pade, padde, from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , and possibly related to the (term)-like English paddle.Alternative forms
*Derived terms
* *Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- an abbot on an ambling pad
- (Gay)
- (Byron)
Etymology 4
an alteration of (ped).Noun
(en noun)- (Simmonds)
Etymology 5
partly from (etyl), partly imitative.Verb
(padd)- Padding the streets for half a crown.
- Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out...
- Their chief Argument is, That they never saw'' any Witches, therefore there are ''none''. Just as if you or I should say, We never met with any ''Robbers'' on the Road, therefore there never was any ''Padding there.