What's the difference between gait and speed?

Gait


Definition:

  • (n.) A going; a walk; a march; a way.
  • (n.) Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (2) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
  • (3) In the improved group, the families reported that the gait abnormality preceded the dementia in 11 patients and occurred at the same time in five.
  • (4) Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening.
  • (5) On admission, neurological examination revealed staggering gait and the right cerebellar ataxia showing dysmetria and dysdiadochokinesis.
  • (6) In the gait initiation protocol, the amplitude and synchronization of the TA burst were directly correlated with velocity of movement, while the relative delay between soleus inhibition and TA activation was inversely correlated.
  • (7) No significant improvements or losses were found in a large series of gait parameters.
  • (8) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
  • (9) In this paper, the authors reported a case of 6-year-old girl who complained of the progressive gait disturbance.
  • (10) The data suggest that throughout most of the gait cycle and normal stair climbing, the passive structures contribute a small portion of the total moment, usually well less than 10%.
  • (11) The function of the prosthesis was assessed through clinical assessment and force plate gait analysis.
  • (12) A 52-year-old female was admitted with a chief complaint of progressive gait disturbance over the previous 16 months.
  • (13) Mean tandem gait speed improved 48% after training.
  • (14) Normal gait was associated with flexor contraction only when the foot was lifted and placed on the ground, whereas during ischaemic blockade flexor contraction continued during the interval between foot lifting and foot placement.The `freezing' or `blocking' gait in Parkinson's disease was found to be associated with coactivation of flexor and extensor muscles and this phenomenon occurred only in patients with features of flexion dystonia in the electromyographic recordings of their tonic stretch reflexes.
  • (15) Moreover in the symmetrical gaits spatial phase shifts between unilateral limbs were equal to zero, which means that hind and fore limbs were placed in the same point during successive steps.
  • (16) Also, the FES antigravity action obtained raises hopes for substantially improving FES induced reciprocal gait.
  • (17) Clinical gait analysis is a term that can be applied to numerous methods of evaluating a subject's walking pattern.
  • (18) Six children with low-level myelomeningocele underwent gait analysis.
  • (19) The functional recovery of the patients was assessed every week by using the Barthel Index and the Action Research Arm test, by registering walking velocity, and by performing gait analysis.
  • (20) These changes were considered to be the result of talipes equinus and waddling gait, which are commonly demonstrated in patients with DMD.

Speed


Definition:

  • (n.) Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
  • (n.) The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
  • (n.) To go; to fare.
  • (n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
  • (n.) To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
  • (n.) To make haste; to move with celerity.
  • (n.) To be expedient.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
  • (v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
  • (v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
  • (v. t.) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
  • (v. t.) To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (2) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
  • (3) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
  • (4) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
  • (5) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
  • (6) step lengths, stride times, double-support times, cadence and walking speed.
  • (7) Fog and base levels of E-speed film were greater than those of D-speed film.
  • (8) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (9) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
  • (10) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
  • (11) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
  • (12) On the other hand conclusions seem to be possible on growth speed of neoplasia.
  • (13) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (14) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
  • (15) The speed of conduction over the spinal cord did not reach adult values until the 5th year.
  • (16) The physical parameters measured are the intensity attenuation and absorption coefficients, the ultrasonic speed, the thermal conductivity, specific-heat capacity and the mass density.
  • (17) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (18) Species differed with respect to speed of habituation but not with respect to sensitivity towards stimulus change.
  • (19) He speeded the process of decolonisation, and was the first British prime minister to appreciate that Britain's future lay with Europe.
  • (20) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.