gallop

«gallop» in Mova's school dictionary: to run very fast, the way a horse does, with all four… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (gallop, gallops, galloped, galloping); noun (a gallop, gallops)

meaning for a pupil

1) To gallop is to run very fast, the way a horse does, with all four feet off the ground at one moment. tree →

2) A gallop is a horse's fastest way of running, or a ride at that speed. tree →

3) Gallop also means to do something very fast (informal). tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories, knights and cowboys gallop away. Horse speeds: walk, trot, canter, gallop. In PE, children «gallop» as a movement skill. Informally, «galloping prices» rise very fast.

examples

• The horse galloped across the field. tree →
• We went for a gallop on the beach. tree →
• Children galloped around the hall like ponies. tree →
• The knight galloped off to save the princess. tree →
• The days galloped by during the holidays. tree →
• At a gallop, a horse is very fast. tree →

note

Past: galloped (one p — not «gallopped»). Order of speeds: walk, trot, canter, gallop.

In the corpora

• A galloping racehorse can reach about 70 kilometres an hour over a short distance.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gallop» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.