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Plod vs Trot - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between plod and trot

is that plod is to trudge over or through while trot is to cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

In obsolete terms the difference between plod and trot

is that plod is a puddle while trot is a young animal.

As nouns the difference between plod and trot

is that plod is a slow or labored walk or other motion or activity while trot is an ugly old woman, a hag.

As verbs the difference between plod and trot

is that plod is to walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over) while trot is to walk rapidly.

plod

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *.

Noun

(-)
  • A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
  • We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod .

    Verb

    (plodd)
  • To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) Part One, Chapter 1
  • ** I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;
  • To trudge over or through.
  • To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
  • * Drayton
  • plodding schoolmen
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (English Citations of "plod")

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) plod. Cognate with (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A puddle.
  • Etymology 3

    From (PC Plod)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • the police, police officers
  • (UK, mildly, derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
  • Synonyms
    * (the police) see * (police officer) see

    trot

    English

    (wikipedia trot)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, disparaging) An ugly old woman, a hag.Trot”, entry in 2008 , Anatolij Simonovi? Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction , page 208.
  • (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 , page 14,
  • Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot , pace, and gallop.
  • * 2008 , Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse , Elsevier, 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 .
  • * 2009 , Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show , 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.
  • 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 , 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.
  • (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.
  • He?s had a good trot , but his luck will end soon.
  • * 1994 , Noel Virtue, Sandspit Crossing , 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.
  • * 2004 , John Mosig, Ric Fallu, Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to Aquaculture , 2nd Edition, 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) jog

    Derived terms

    * foxtrot * on the trot * trotter * turkey trot

    Verb

    (trott)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * hot to trot

    Synonyms

    * (to walk rapidly) jog, pace ** See also ,

    References

    Anagrams

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