GAIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gait mean? 

• GAIT (noun)
  The noun GAIT has 3 senses:

1. the rate of moving (especially walking or running)

2. a horse's manner of moving

3. a person's manner of walking

  Familiarity information: GAIT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The rate of moving (especially walking or running)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

gait; pace

Hypernyms ("gait" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gait"):

quick time (a normal marching pace of 120 steps per minute)

double time (a fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A horse's manner of moving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("gait" is a kind of...):

locomotion; travel (self-propelled movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gait"):

walk (a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground)

rack; single-foot (a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately)

jog trot (an easy gait of a horse; midway between a walk and a trot)

trot (a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together)

canter; lope (a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop)

gallop (a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person's manner of walking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("gait" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gait"):

flounce (the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions)

waddle (walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other)

prance; strut; swagger (a proud stiff pompous gait)

angry walk; stalk (a stiff or threatening gait)

skip (a gait in which steps and hops alternate)

saunter (a careless leisurely gait)

roll (walking with a swaying gait)

pacing (walking with slow regular strides)

lurch; stagger; stumble (an unsteady uneven gait)

hitch; hobble; limp (the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg)

 Context examples 

Signs and symptoms include lack of motor coordination, unsteady gait, and difficulty walking.

(Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

The main symptoms include gait and balance disturbances, lack of limb coordination, and speech disturbances.

(Friedreich Ataxia, NCI Thesaurus)

Objective signs include weakness, long tract signs, dysmetria, gait ataxia, papilledema, and nystagmus.

(Cerebellar Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

LED sensors embedded in the five-meter walking track captured gait speed and stride length.

(Mental, Not Physical, Fatigue Affects Seniors' Walking Ability, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Movement Disorder Society version of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) Freezing of gait.

(MDS-UPDRS - Freezing of Gait, NCI Thesaurus)

The dog has an unusual high stepping gait.

(Miniature Pinscher, NCI Thesaurus)

I saw few human beings besides them, and if any other happened to enter the cottage, their harsh manners and rude gait only enhanced to me the superior accomplishments of my friends.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Patients present with bone and muscle pain, severe muscle weakness, fractures, gait disturbances, skeletal deformity, height loss, and slow growth.

(Phosphaturic Mesenchymal Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include abnormal gait, blindness, depression, paralysis, seizures and dementia.

(Neurosyphilis, NCI Thesaurus)

The man watched him go, limping grotesquely and lurching forward with stammering gait up the slow slope toward the soft sky-line of the low-lying hill.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)