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Definitions: Gallop |
GallopNoun1. A fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously. Verb1. Ride at a galloping pace; "He was galloping down the road". 2. Go at galloping speed, as of horses; "The horse was galloping along". 3. Cause to move at full gallop; "Did you gallop the horse just now?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gallop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Sports & Leisure | Is an accelerated canter; the movement is the same as the canter. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: GallopSynonym: extend (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: galloped (sports & leisurefood & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Journey | Take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole; gallop; (move quickly). |
Transientness | Verb: be transient; Adjective: flit, pass away, fly, gallop, vanish, fade, evaporate; pass away like a cloud, pass away like a summer cloud, pass away like a shadow, pass away like a dream. |
Velocity | Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground. |
Adverb: swiftly; Adjective: with speed; Noun: apace; at a great rate, at full speed, at railway speed; full drive, full gallop; posthaste, in full sail, tantivy; trippingly; instantaneously. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gallop |
| English words defined with "gallop": Aubin ♦ Calade, canter ♦ extend ♦ gallop rhythm, Gallopade, Galloped ♦ lope ♦ Tantivy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gallop": ANIMAL-RIDE MANAGER ♦ COW'S COURANT ♦ Hand-gallop ♦ inbred gait ♦ natural gait ♦ terre terre, TITTUP. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gallop": Gallopin. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I mean, I could be rich. I could be famous. I could have anything. Anyone. Even you, Spike. I could ride you at a gallop until your legs buckled and your eyes rolled up. I've got muscles you've never even dreamed of. I could squeeze you until you pop like warm champagne and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ten Miles to the Gallop (1973) Murder at the Gallop (1963) The Gallop of Death (1912) | |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Gallop; canter; stride; horse; mare; colt; pony; gelding; filly; fillies; clip. | | Horseshoe; trot; gallop; pavement; paved. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All the English flying artillery took position in the squares at a gallop. |
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| "Gallop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.46% of the time. "Gallop" is used about 236 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 72.46% | 171 | 23,814 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 19.49% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.2% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.85% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 236 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gallop" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gallop | Last name | 1,000 | 13,522 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "gallop": at a gallop ♦ at full gallop ♦ break into a gallop ♦ Canterbury gallop ♦ cause to gallop ♦ gallop away ♦ gallop off ♦ gallop rhythm ♦ gallop through a book ♦ gallop through prayers ♦ gallop up ♦ Hand gallop. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "gallop": hand-gallop. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gallop | 139 |
gallop racer | 98 |
gallop horse | 60 |
gallop poll | 34 |
gallop racer 2001 | 18 |
gallop organization | 11 |
gallop test | 11 |
gallop mexico new | 10 |
gallop racer cheat | 9 |
gallop pole | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gallop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | galop (galop, rack), ritëm i shpejt, ngutem (bustle, bustle about, hasten, hurry, hustle, rush, skip), me galop, eci me galop (canter). (various references) | |
Arabic | عدو الفرس, عدا بسرعة (career), جعله يعدو بالفرس, جرى بالفرس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | развивам се бързо, говоря бързо (gibber), галопирам (tantivy), галоп (scamper), езда в галоп, препускам с всички сили. (various references) | |
Chinese | 騁 (hasten, open up, run), 馳 (run fast, speed, spread), 疾馳 . (various references) | |
Czech | trysk (jet, squirt), cval (galloping, trot). (various references) | |
Danish | galop. (various references) | |
Dutch | galopperen (pitching). (various references) | |
Esperanto | galopo, galopi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | tvíspora. (various references) | |
Farsi | چهارنعل رفتن (Course, Trig), چهارنعل (Canter, Scamper), تازیدن , تاخت (Attack, Lope). (various references) | |
Finnish | nelistys (full speed), nelistää, neli, laukka (canter, hand gallop), laukata. (various references) | |
French | galoper, galop (galloping). (various references) | |
Frisian | fjouwerje. (various references) | |
German | galopp (galop). (various references) | |
Greek | καλπάζω (canter, spur). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל""ור (buck, career), ""יר" (galloping), ""ר", ב""יר". (various references) | |
Hungarian | vágta (burst, dash, sprint), galopp. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mencongklang, congklang. (various references) | |
Italian | galoppo (galloping), galoppare. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ギャル" (galloping inflation, gang). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ギャロップ . (various references) | |
Manx | lhigey (galloping), garrey (bout of work, impetus, lap, rubber, spell, stint, trick, turn). (various references) | |
Norwegian | galoppere, galopp. (various references) | |
Papago | chu'adkim (to gallop). (various references) | |
Papiamen | galopiá, galòp, alopiá, alòp. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allopgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galope (galloper, galloping, galop, lope, pelt, scamper, tantivy), galopar (galore, lope). (various references) | |
Romanian | galopa (surge), galop, se grãbi (bucket, bundle, fly, get jerk, hasten, hurry, make haste, rush, speed, spur, whisk along), cãlãri (amble, horse, pace, ride), alerga în galop. (various references) | |
Russian | скачка (galloping), скакать галопом, галопом, галоп (galop), быстро прогрессировать. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | galopirati, galopirajući (galloping), galop (galop). (various references) | |
Spanish | galope (galloping, lope, pitching). (various references) | |
Swedish | galopp (galllop, gallopade, galop). (various references) | |
Turkish | koşu yolu (racecourse, racetrack), koşturmak (course, run, run up, rush), hızlı gitme (going fast, speeding), dörtnala koşturmak (bucket), dörtnala koşmak (career), dörtnala gitme (tantivy), dörtnal, acele götürmek. (various references) | |
Turkmen | цсьrdiklemek, зapmak (chop, hop, skip). (various references) | |
Ukranian | галопувати, галоп (gallopade). (various references) | |
Welsh | carlamu (prance), carlam (prance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cucurrerint, cucurrerit, cucurrero, cucurrerunt, cucurri, cucurrisset, cucurrit, curram, curramus, currat, curre, currebant, currebas, currebat, currebatis, curremus, currendam, currendum, currens, current, currentem, currentes, currenti, currentis, currentium, currere, currerem, curret, curris, currit, currite, curro, currunt, cursu, cursum, cursus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | hleapan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gallop": gallopade, gallopades, galloped, galloper, gallopers, galloping, gallops. (additional references) | |
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"Gallop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: callop, galap, Gallix, gallopavo, gallope, gallot, galo, galoe, galop, galope, Galro, galup, gatlop, Gflop, giallo, glagol, gloop, glop, golop, Gralko, Gullo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gallop" (pronounced ga"lup) |
| 4 | -a" l u p | scallop. |
| 3 | -l u p | develop, dollop, envelop, fillip, Julep, polyp, redevelop, tulip, wallop. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-l-o-p" | |
-1 letter: galop. | |
-2 letters: gall, gaol, glop, goal, olla, opal, pall, poll. | |
-3 letters: ago, all, alp, gal, gap, goa, lag, lap, log, lop, pal, pol. | |
-4 letters: ag, al, go, la, lo, op, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-l-o-p" | |
+1 letter: gallops, plugola. | |
+2 letters: apologal, flagpole, gallipot, galloped, galloper, plugolas, polygala. | |
+3 letters: allograph, alpenglow, flagpoles, gallipots, gallopade, gallopers, galloping, haplology, polygalas, polygonal, walloping. | |
+4 letters: allographs, alpenglows, collapsing, epiglottal, gallopades, palynology, patrolling, pellagrous, pollarding, prelogical, prodigally, pyrogallol, scalloping, topgallant, volplaning. | |
+5 letters: allographic, callipygous, escalloping, haplologies, hypoglossal, megalopolis, palynologic, pedological, penological, plagioclase, planetology, pollinating, polygonally, pomological, postglacial, pyrogallols, topgallants, topological, typological. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6C 6C 6F 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- .-.. .-.. --- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a l l o p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006C 006C 006F 0070 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416778788182 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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