trot
(noun) a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together
jog, trot, lope
(noun) a slow pace of running
pony, trot, crib
(noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
Trotskyite, Trotskyist, Trot
(noun) radicals who support Trotsky’s theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
trot, jog, clip
(verb) run at a moderately swift pace
trot
(verb) cause to trot; “She trotted the horse home”
trot
(verb) ride at a trot
Source: WordNet® 3.1
trot (plural trots)
(archaic, disparaging) An ugly old woman, a hag. [From 1362.]
(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).
A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
A brisk journey or progression.
A toddler. [From 1854.]
(obsolete) A young animal. [From 1895.]
(dance) A moderately rapid dance.
(Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
(Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
(dated, slang, among students) synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
(informal, as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
• (gait of an animal between walk and canter)
• (ugly old woman): See old woman
• (gait of a person faster than a walk): jog
trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trotting, simple past and past participle trotted)
(intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
(intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
(transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
• (to walk rapidly): jog, pace
See also walk, run
trot (uncountable)
A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
• ppongjjak
trot (plural trots)
(disparaging, properly Trot) Clipping of Trotskyist.
• -tort, ROTT, Rott, TRTO, tort
Shortening.
Trot (plural Trots)
(slang, derogatory) A Trotskyist.
• -tort, ROTT, Rott, TRTO, tort
Source: Wiktionary
Trot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trotting.] Etym: [OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trott to tread. See Tread.]
1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
2. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry. He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night. Franklin.
Trot, v. t.
Definition: To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering. To trot out, to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition. [Slang.]
Trot, n. Etym: [F. See Trot, v. i.]
1. The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time. "The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot." Stillman (The Horse in Motion).
2. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
3. One who trots; a child; a woman. An old trot with ne'er a tooth. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
