trot
noun · verbA1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
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A brisk journey or progression.
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.
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(chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
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A toddler.
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.
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(dance) A moderately rapid dance.
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(obsolete)A young animal.
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(archaic, derogatory)An ugly old woman, a hag.
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(Australia, obsolete)A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
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(Australia, New Zealand)(Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
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(dated, slang)(dated, slang, among students) Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
Đồng nghĩa: horse
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(informal)(informal, as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.
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(uncountable)A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
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!
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(intransitive)(intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
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(transitive)To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
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(UK, archaic, slang, transitive)To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.
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From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (to go, trot), from *trottō, *trotō (to go), from *trottōn (to go, run), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (to go, step, tread), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (to run, escape). Cognate with trottōn to run, Modern trotten, 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 to tread, troða, tredan. trade tread.