different between gallop vs meander

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.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• mæander (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros) – a river in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) known for its winding course. (Turkish Büyük Menderes Nehri)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mi?ænd?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mi?ænd?/

Noun

meander (plural meanders)

1. One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
   • 1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, "Creation: A Philosophical Poem":

     See, how the streams advancing to the main, / Through crooked channels draw their crystal train! / While lingering thus they in meanders glide, / They scatter verdant life on either side.

2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
3. (geography) one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
4. Fretwork.
5. Perplexity.
6. Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border.
7. (mathematics) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

meander (third-person singular simple present meanders, present participle meandering, simple past and past participle meandered)

1. (intransitive) To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
2. (transitive) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryton to this entry?)

Translations

Further reading

• meander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Büyük Menderes River on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• The Chambers Dictionary (1998)

Anagrams

• Merenda, amender, enarmed, reamend, reedman, renamed

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros)

Noun

meander m (definite singular meanderen, indefinite plural meandere or meandre or meandrer, definite plural meanderne or meandrene)

1. a meander (in a river)

Derived terms

• meandersjø
• meandrere

References

• “meander” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “meander” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros)

Noun

meander m (definite singular meanderen, indefinite plural meandrar, definite plural meandrane)

1. a meander (in a river)

Derived terms

• meandersjø

References

• “meander” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From German Mäander, from Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros) – a river in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) known for its winding course.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??an.d?r/

Noun

meander m inan

1. meander (one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse)

   Synonym: zakole

2. meander, meandros (decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjectives) meandrowy, meandryczny, meandrowaty
• (nouns) meandryczno??
• (verb) meandrowa?

Further reading

• meander in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• meander in Polish dictionaries at PWN