gait

Meanings

• noun

  The way a person or animal walks.

  - "The elderly man's gait was slow and unsteady."
  - "The horse's gait was rhythmic and smooth."

• noun

  The pace or rhythm at which something moves or operates.

  - "The traffic gait was slow due to heavy congestion."
  - "The engine's gait was steady and efficient."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with gait
mate , fate , hate , mate

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Variants

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gait , gaits , gaited , gaiting

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Etymology

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Old English 'gadian' meaning 'to go' or 'to walk'.

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Trivia

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1. Did you know that humans typically take around 8,000 to 10,000 steps per day?

2. There are several different gaits that horses can perform, including the walk, trot, canter, and gallop.

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Related Concepts

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1. Gait analysis: A method used in medicine and rehabilitation to assess an individual's mobility and identify potential health issues.

2. Bipedal gait: The way a bipedal organism, such as a human or a robot, walks on two legs.

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Quotes

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1. He walked with an odd "gait", a kind of shuffle, pushing his feet along the floor without lifting them.

   - E. L. Doctorow,{it}Ragtime{/it},(1974) 1975

2. They walked on with the same light "gait", so nearly of a height that keeping step came as naturally to them as breathing.

   - Edith Wharton,{it}The Reef{/it},1912

3. They were orthopedic shoes built around molds of my feet, and they had a 2 1/4-inch lift.  … they had given me a more or less even "gait" for the first time in 10 years.

   - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,{it}New York Times Magazine{/it},9 Dec. 1990

4. Interaction with the horse takes place on several levels. Physical communication is foremost. You learn its body language and it learns to respond to a body language you use to ask for changes in "gait", direction, and body frame.

   - Maxine Kumin,{it}In Deep{/it},1987

5. How many prose writers can you identify from their style? Not many have that singular emanation from the temperament or those combinations of words all of them characteristic for a certain "gait", a certain tone, a certain idiosyncratic consecutiveness of thought and image.

   - Paul West,{it}New York Times Book Review{/it},15 Dec. 1985

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Culture

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Gait is a significant concept in various fields such as medicine, animal science, and engineering. In medicine, gait analysis is used to assess mobility and identify potential health issues. In animal science, gait is used to evaluate the health and performance of animals. In engineering, gait is used in robotics and mechatronics to design and develop bipedal robots.

How to Memorize "gait"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a person or animal walking to remember the meaning of gait.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'gait' with the way a person or animal moves.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Goes And Is Theft' to remember that gait is the way a person or animal goes.

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