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Copper engraving of the "Great Galop" of Johann Strauss (1839). Galop rhythm. [1]In dance, the galop, named after the fastest running gait of a horse (see Gallop), a shortened version of the original term galoppade, is a lively country dance, introduced in the late 1820s to Parisian society by the Duchesse de Berry and popular in Vienna, Berlin and London.
A gallop is a gait of a horse or other equine animal, or a bounding gait of any 4-legged animal. Gallop may also refer to: People. Angela Gallop (born 1950), British ...
The Gish gallop (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ ʃ ˈ ɡ æ l ə p /) is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, with no regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available. Gish galloping ...
Kamala Harris. Donald Trump. Gish Gallop. All three are expected at Tuesday's presidential debate, even if most of America is unfamiliar with one name in that lineup.
[1]: 3 Also includes how the horse uses its shoulder, humerus, elbow, and stifle; most often used to describe motion at the trot, but sometimes applied to the canter or gallop. [3]: 97 High action is a breed characteristic of Saddlebreds [1]: 3 and other breeds used in saddle seat and certain harness disciplines. aged horse An older horse.
The shortlist definitions were provided by Oxford. Lore. Noun: "A body of (supposed) facts, background information, and anecdotes relating to someone or something, regarded as knowledge required ...
The gallop is very much like the canter, except that it is faster, more ground-covering, and the three-beat canter changes to a four-beat gait. It is the fastest gait of the horse, averaging about 40 to 48 kilometres per hour (25 to 30 mph), and in the wild is used when the animal needs to flee from predators or simply cover short distances ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).