different between crawl vs gallop

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: krôl, IPA^(key): /k???l/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: kräl, IPA^(key): /k??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle English crawlen, creulen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla), from Proto-Germanic *krabl?n? (compare Dutch krabbelen, Low German krabbeln, Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of *krabb?n? (“to scratch, scrape”). More at crab.

Verb

crawl (third-person singular simple present crawls, present participle crawling, simple past and past participle crawled)

1. (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
   • 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra

     A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.

2. (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.

3. (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
4. (intransitive, with "with") See crawl with.
5. (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.

6. (intransitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.

7. (transitive) To move over an area on hands and knees.

8. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)(intransitive) To visit while becoming inebriated.

9. (transitive) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.

Derived terms

• crawler

Descendants

• German: kraulen

Translations

Noun

crawl (plural crawls)

1. The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops.
2. A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
3. (figuratively) A very slow pace.

   My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.

4. (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[2]

     The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: crol, crawl

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare kraal.

Noun

crawl (plural crawls)

1. A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English crawl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ol/

Noun

crawl m (plural crawls)

1. crawl (swimming stroke)

Further reading

• “crawl” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English crawl.

Noun

crawl m (plural crawl)

1. crawl (swimming stroke)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English crawl.

Noun

crawl m (uncountable)

1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of crol

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English crawl.

Noun

crawl c (uncountable)

1. crawl; swimming stroke

Declension

Related terms

• crawla

English

Etymology

From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan? (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æl?p/
• Homophone: Gallup

Noun

gallop (plural gallops)

1. The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
2. An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.

Derived terms

• Gish gallop

Translations

Verb

gallop (third-person singular simple present gallops, present participle galloping, simple past and past participle galloped)

1. (intransitive, of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.

2. (intransitive) To ride at a galloping pace.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn

     Gallop lively down the western hill.

3. (transitive) To cause to gallop.

4. (transitive, intransitive) To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
5. (intransitive) To run very fast.
6. (figuratively, intransitive) To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

   • Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.

   • 1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

     Soon after breakfast Miss Matilda, having galloped and blundered through a few unprofitable lessons, and vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it, because her mama would not give her a holiday, […]

7. (intransitive, of an infection, especially pneumonia) To progress rapidly through the body.

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