Meaning of TROT
| Pronunciation: | | trât, trât
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- [n] a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together
- [n] a slow pace of running
- [n] a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
- [n] radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
- [v] run at a moderately swift pace
- [v] cause to trot; "She trotted the horse home"
- [v] ride at a trot
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| | Synonyms: | | clip, crib, jog, jog, lope, pony, Trotskyist, Trotskyite |
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| | See Also: | | dogtrot, gait, interlingual rendition, locomotion, radical, rendering, ride horseback, rising trot, run, sitting trot, translation, travel, version, walk | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Trot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Trotting}.] [OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably
of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trott?n 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.
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. [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.
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