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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gait has 3 senses
- gait(n = noun.time) pace - the rate of moving (especially walking or running); Array has particulars: quick time, double time
- gait(n = noun.act) Array - a horse's manner of moving; Array is a kind of locomotion, travel
- gait(n = noun.act) Array - a person's manner of walking; Array is a kind of walk, walking
is a kind of rate
has particulars: walk, rack, single-foot, jog trot, trot, canter, lope, gallop
has particulars: hitch, hobble, limp, flounce, lurch, stagger, stumble, pacing, roll, saunter, skip, angry walk, stalk, prance, strut, swagger, waddle
CIDE DICTIONARY
gait, n. [See Gate a way.].
- A going; a walk; a march; a way. [1913 Webster]"Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor folks pass." [1913 Webster]
- Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. [1913 Webster]"'T is Cinna; I do know him by his gait." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gait, n.
1 a manner of walking; one's bearing or carriage as one walks.
2 the manner of forward motion of a runner, horse, vehicle, etc.
1 a manner of walking; one's bearing or carriage as one walks.
2 the manner of forward motion of a runner, horse, vehicle, etc.
Idiom
go one's (or one's own) gait pursue one's own course.
Etymology
var. of GATE(2)
THESAURUS
gait
amble, bat, career, celerity, clip, drag, droop, flounce, gallop, hitch, hobble, jog, lick, limp, lock step, lurch, mince, mincing steps, pace, paddle, piaffer, prance, progress, quickness, rack, rapidity, rate, roll, saunter, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, slink, slither, slouch, slowness, stagger, stalk, step, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, swagger, swiftness, swing, toddle, totter, travel, tread, trot, velocity, waddle, walkROGET THESAURUS
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Method
N method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise, modus operandi, MO, procedure, path, road, route, course, line of way, line of road, trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack, steps, stair, staircase, flight of stairs, ladder, stile, perron, bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway, drawbridge, pass, ford, ferry, tunnel, pipe, door, gateway, channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit, artery, lane, loan, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor, back-door, back-stairs, secret passage, covert way, vennel, roadway, pathway, stairway, express, thoroughfare, highway, turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road, broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway, beaten track, beaten path, horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path, walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk, crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway, cut, short cut carrefour, private road, occupation road, highways and byways, railroad, railway, tram road, tramway, towpath, causeway, canal, street, speedway, adv, how, in what way, in what manner, by what mode, so, in this way, after this fashion, one way or another, anyhow, somehow or other, by way of, via, in transitu, on the high road to, hae tibi erunt artes.Motion
N motion, movement, move, going, unrest, stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir, evolution, kinematics, telekinesis, step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity, clip, progress, locomotion, journey, voyage, transit, restlessness, mobility, movableness, motive power, laws of motion, mobilization, moving, in motion, transitional, motory, motive, shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet, restless, nomadic, erratic, under way, on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march, eppur si muove, es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
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