What's the difference between canter and gallop?

Canter


Definition:

  • (n.) A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
  • (n.) A rapid or easy passing over.
  • (v. i.) To move in a canter.
  • (v. t.) To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
  • (n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar.
  • (n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On another day, and possibly under another referee, Newcastle would have cantered to victory.
  • (2) Ernest Owusu, 23, sports engineering graduate, from London Ernest Owusu Photograph: Alicia Canter "This is my sixth Glastonbury, I love it here.
  • (3) It is not impossible this could all be done by the end of April, Leicester of the unbursting bubble not just champions, but champions at a hard-fought canter.
  • (4) If jet lag has you awake before the market is open for breakfast, you can potter up Fairfax to Canter's, a 24-hour deli that's been a Los Angeles Landmark since 1931.
  • (5) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Harper Adams University Runner-up : University of Sheffield Runner-up : University of Leicester Research impact Facebook Twitter Pinterest Professor Mary Herbert and Dr Louise Hyslop from Newcastle University with their research impact award for pioneering IVF techniques.
  • (6) The bookmakers were proved right after Murray cantered to victory.
  • (7) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian A very unexpected Glasto anthem I didn't expect Katy Perry's Dark Horse to be the highlight of my Glastonbury, but somewhere in the middle of a very sweaty dance tent at some point in the early hours of Saturday morning, Jamie xx dropped it midway through an already mindblowing DJ set and the place exploded.
  • (8) Our fans have been through a lot but, hopefully, it will be a special day for them.” Back in December, down on the south coast, Boro ended Brighton’s unbeaten beginning to the season with an emphatic 3-0 victory and looked set to canter away with the title.
  • (9) Q ranged from 106 (rest) to 571 ml.min-1.kg-1 (canter), and stroke volume went from 1.34 (rest) to a maximum of 1.58 liters (walk).
  • (10) The young Spaniard, who has deputised at right-back with such aplomb this season, had the confidence to canter goalwards and plant the ball with his left foot into the far corner of the goal.
  • (11) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian GPs battle fatalism in neighbourhood with Britain's worst life expectancy Read more Two-thirds of GPs in the south of England said service had deteriorated in the last year – the highest proportion of any part of the country.
  • (12) Animals running at canter or gallop show major asymmetries between forelimb muscles on the first paw and on the lead paw sides.
  • (13) It is an assessment that continues to resonate, not just because of who it came from but also because it aptly encapsulates the swaggering brilliance of that Liverpool team, one which having crushed Forest went on to clinch the club's 17th league championship at a canter.
  • (14) Struggling against the harsh gusts of Lake Michigan, they soon become a blur of chapped noses and sharp tailoring breaking into a canter on Chicago’s Southside.
  • (15) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Royal Agricultural University Runner-up : University of Edinburgh Runner-up : University of Bristol students’ union Teaching excellence Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sean Mackney, Dr Sharon Edwards and Sam McCormack from Buckinghamshire New University with the award for teaching excellence and Paul Sinha.
  • (16) The basis of the survey was the inability of horses to take part in cantering exercise as a result of injury or disease.
  • (17) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian It is fair to say that Mary is more of an idealist than Arron.
  • (18) Canter's Background Interference Procedure was designed to increase the sensitivity of the Bender test to the discernment of organic brain damage.
  • (19) The rate of detection, confirmation, control and follow-up of hypertension in the Canteres Primary Care Center was evaluated two years after the beginning of the hypertension program from a sample of 1219 clinical records.
  • (20) This study correlated the Canter's Background Interference Procedure (BIP) scores of 141 adult epileptics with the five variables of age at onset of symptoms, etiology, type of symptoms, severity of generalized background dysrhythmia, and locus of lesion.

Gallop


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
  • (v. i.) To ride a horse at a gallop.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
  • (v. t.) To cause to gallop.
  • (v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
  • (2) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
  • (3) The maximum distance galloped daily, which was in period 4, was repeated in period 5.
  • (4) We contacted Tim and his advisers immediately when we heard he was not going to be part of Shanghai any longer,” Gallop said.
  • (5) A second example of a compromise of VA is that of a galloping racehorse at very high workloads.
  • (6) In the second half Gerrard found much more freedom, bombing forward with a familiar gallop and linking up more effectively with his team-mates.
  • (7) Patients who died suddenly and those survived were similar in respect to age (60, 62 years), sex, location of infarction, presence of coronary risk factors, severity of acute myocardial infarction (Q waves, cardiac enzymes), serum cholesterol levels, evidence of cardiomegaly on roentgenograms, presence of ventricular gallop and drug therapy received.
  • (8) Certainly it has the feeling of a circus act - riding two galloping horses in front of everyone.
  • (9) Chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed.
  • (10) From where he stood, the Real Madrid coach watched in awe as barely metres away Gareth Bale started the sprint that ended with him scoring what he admitted was the "biggest" goal of his career: a 50-metre gallop that won the Copa del Rey for Real Madrid .
  • (11) Following an initial maintenance period without forced exercise, workload was increased in succeeding 18-d periods by doubling the distance the horses were galloped in each period from period 2 through 4.
  • (12) A fine period of passing is undone by a brainless gallop forwards by Kebe, who just knocks the ball into the nearest defender.
  • (13) The Argentinian raced on to a ball on the right of the area and chipped it inside, where Maicon came galloping in to bundle home at the second attempt.
  • (14) The timing interval between the onset of knee extensor EMG (vastus lateralis) and the onset of the ipsilateral elbow flexor EMG (brachialis) was studied in adult cats during overground walking, trotting and galloping.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lakota youth riders of the “Horse Nation” gallop bareback at Standing Rock.
  • (16) The chief executive of Football Federation Australia, David Gallop, told local media it had been involved in interviews and the production of documents.
  • (17) Hence his eventual nickname, the Galloping Major, though like most such "army" footballers, he was seldom to be seen on parade.
  • (18) A protodiastolic gallop proved to be a relative specific but insensitive sign of poor ventricular function.
  • (19) 12.53pm GMT 8 min: With Manchester City attacking down the inside right, David Silva slides a lovely pass through to Pablo Zabaleta, who was galloping up the touchline on the overlap.
  • (20) In the London agencies where she worked in the 80s, overt sexism was rife, but Gallop says she didn’t notice “because that was the way things were.