trot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of trade and tread.
Inflected forms:
form: trots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
pos: noun
examples: Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village.
gloss: A brisk journey or progression.
pos: noun
examples: We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.
In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.
gloss: A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
pos: noun
examples: Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop.
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.
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.
gloss: A toddler.
pos: noun
examples: 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 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.
gloss: A moderately rapid dance.
pos: noun
gloss: A young animal.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An ugly old woman, a hag.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
derogatory
gloss: A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
obsolete
gloss: A run of luck or fortune.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
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.
Should he or she be having a bad trot, the exchange rate will be higher than normal.
gloss: Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
gloss: Diarrhoea.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.
gloss: To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.
I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart.
They sent little Jane to the garden to play,
But she opened the gate, and then trotted away
Under the hawthorns and down the green lane,
Bad little, mad little, runaway Jane!
It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire.
gloss: To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.
pos: verb
tags: UK
archaic
slang
transitive
examples: A particular friend of mine complained that I had "trotted" him at a sale, but he did not see what was happening on the part of the other bidder.
Synonyms: run
jog
pace
Derived words: bad trot
dogtrot
foxtrot
globe-trot
jogtrot
on the trot
rough trot
swing trot
trotline
trotter
trotty
turkey trot
globetrot
hot to trot
outtrot
strong enough to trot a mouse on
trot off
trot out
untrotted
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: подтичвам
roman: podtičvam
lang: Czech
word: klusat
lang: Czech
word: poklusávat
lang: Esperanto
word: troti
lang: Finnish
word: ravata
lang: French
word: trotter
lang: Irish
word: bí ag sodar
lang: Italian
word: trottare
lang: Persian
word: پوییدن
roman: puyidan
lang: Russian
word: спеши́ть
roman: spešítʹ
lang: Russian
word: торопи́ться
roman: toropítʹsja
lang: Spanish
word: trotar
lang: Turkish
word: koşmak
lang: Turkish
word: yetmek
lang: Turkish
word: yelmek
lang: Turkish
word: seğirtmek
lang: Turkish
word: yortmak