What's the difference between gallop and wallop?

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.

Wallop


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
  • (n.) A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.
  • (v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
  • (v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
  • (v. i.) To be slatternly.
  • (v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
  • (v. t.) To wrap up temporarily.
  • (v. t.) To throw or tumble over.
  • (n.) A thick piece of fat.
  • (n.) A blow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While that's going on, Nakazawa accidentally wallops Tulio upside the head.
  • (2) 20-odd seconds: Suarez goes for a loose ball down the inside-right channel and clatters into the back of Ferdinand, who in turn wallops Evra.
  • (3) Westminster is rarely a palace of pleasure, but Thursday brought the magnificent spectacle of Margaret Hodge walloping the big four accountancy firms for their role in helping companies deprive the Treasury of taxes everyone else has to pay.
  • (4) His family attended the Cygnus launch from Nasa's Wallops Flight Facility.
  • (5) Its launch early next year from Wallops Island, Virginia, is timed to coincide with the six-month mission of Italy's first female astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti.
  • (6) It appears the Berkshires there in western Massachusetts got walloped.
  • (7) He takes it down on his chest and wallops it past the distressed and totally stranded Souleymanou.
  • (8) And New Jersey got walloped by Hurricane Sandy, and instead of acting on climate, Governor Christie has doubled down by sticking his head in the sand.” The political logic of Christie’s hedging on vaccinations was not immediately clear.
  • (9) It left the Swans without their two main forward targets, but in the end it was their midfield that was on the receiving end of the biggest walloping in the 15.13 (103) to 7.9 (51) defeat.
  • (10) Two minutes later, Tadic provided another assist, wriggling into the box and feeding Victor Wanyama, who walloped in his side’s seventh goal.
  • (11) Giroud grabbed the ball and walloped it up into the stands in relief.
  • (12) Only a Conservative leader confident of a walloping great majority would dare challenge the privileges of the largely Conservative-voting old.
  • (13) City have been imperious at home this season, walloping much better sides than the Hammers, and Manchester United, and have scored 61 goals in 18 league matches at the Etihad.
  • (14) There’s not enough difference between Ed Miliband and David Cameron,” Sturgeon announced to cheers, seizing the absent prime minster and walloping Miliband around the head with his pinstriped legs.
  • (15) Rushing on to a long kick by Randolph, he left defenders in his wake before walloping the ball past Manuel Neuer and into the net.
  • (16) Or the 1987 final, when they came within 13 minutes of the trophy before being walloped by a quick one-two?
  • (17) An Air Force Minotaur V rocket provided the ride from Nasa's Wallops flight facility.
  • (18) 47 min: Asatiani plays a suicidal ball across the face of his own box; McFadden nearly latches onto it but Youngkeeper (it's easier to spell) does brilliantly to react, rushing out and walloping miles upfield.
  • (19) Ss either inside or outside of 2 houses in Wallops Station, Virginia, indicated on diagrams the direction of flyovers.
  • (20) Also: (5) Arsenal have been thrashed in their two other big matches at the Emirates this season, a 3-0 pasting by Chelsea and a 3-1 walloping by Manchester United, (6) Barcelona are better than Chelsea, (7) Barcelona are better than Manchester United, and (8) Henry might not get a sniff of action this evening anyway, rendering those four spurious omens totally worthless.