Trot vs Scramble - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between trot and scramble

is that 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 while scramble is to gather or collect by scrambling.

As nouns the difference between trot and scramble

is that trot is an ugly old woman, a hag while scramble is a rush or hurry.

As verbs the difference between trot and scramble

is that trot is to walk rapidly while scramble is to move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.

As an interjection scramble is

shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.

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

* (l) ----

scramble

English

Interjection

scramble!

(UK) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.

Verb

(scrambl)

To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.

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* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 3

When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.

To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.

(transitive, of food ingredients, usually, including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.

I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.

To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.

(military) To quickly enter (vehicles, usually aircraft) and proceed to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.

(sports) To partake in motocross.

To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.

To gather or collect by scrambling.

to scramble up wealth

(Marlowe)

To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.

* Milton

Of other care they little reckoning make, / Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.

Derived terms

* scrambled eggs

Noun

(en noun)

A rush or hurry

(military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.

A motocross race

Any frantic period of activity.

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Antonyms

* sortie

Anagrams

* English ergative verbs