(v. i.) To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.
(v. t.) To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Balakrishnan group's beliefs were mocked in the diary column of the Times, prompting speculation that it may have been a partial model for the Tooting Popular Front, the ludicrous political movement in Citizen Smith, the BBC sitcom, which began in 1977.
(2) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian At the cutting edge, literally, of NHS treatment, we saw “awake craniotomy” at St George’s hospital, Tooting, south London.
(3) Also, in common with many other criminals, after the scandal of the taping of the current minister of state, Department for Transport, the right honourable member for Tooting [Sadiq Khan], on a prison visit, he believes all these meetings are taped and he says this will back him up.
(4) So I don't actually care whether Gideon had a toot or not.
(5) They shouldn’t have made you feed in a way you didn’t want to, it’s illegal.” Tooting Baby (@Tootingbaby) .
(6) It is now being stopped entirely in Wimbledon, Tooting and Mitcham.
(7) Khan’s side points out that Goldsmith himself invited Gani – who the Tory candidate now describes as “one of the most repellent men in the country” – to a campaign event at the Tooting Islamic Centre.
(8) Khan has been MP for Tooting since 2005 and a government whip since last year.
(9) Janet Eades, a retired teacher from Wandsworth who is leading the campaign against the free school, said: "I would like to know what the demand and need is for this school in Tooting, which was deemed viable by the department of education because there was a need in Lambeth.
(10) Fire engines were sent from East Ham, Ilford, Plaistow, Stratford, Shadwell, Millwall, Homerton, Dagenham, East Greenwich and Tooting fire stations.
(11) Theresa Drzewiecka, 55, is a nurse at the Tooting practice, and said that people also saw her because they were confident of her training.
(12) The odd white van toots at this mass of running students.
(13) The mother was taken to St George's hospital, Tooting, south London, and arrested on suspicion of murder after treatment to minor wounds.
(14) You do not want to be lab rats in the first Corbyn economic experiment in public life.” Khan, the MP for Tooting, has previously sought to distance himself from the Labour leadership, arguing that a key part of the job of London mayor is to be an advocate for the capital and not for a political party.
(15) The generosity of my constituents in Tooting, and people across Britain, has been truly inspiring.
(16) The idea that those people are going to switch to Labour doesn’t make sense.” On the streets of Springboig in the late morning sunshine, Curran cuts a familiar figure, enjoying tooting car horns and welcoming handshakes.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An ‘awake craniotomy’ at St George’s hospital, Tooting, south London.
(18) The Metronews freesheet went further, saying a Khan victory would make the Tooting MP “ the first Muslim mayor of a European capital ”.
(19) In Tooting, south London, classes showing parents invaluable skills such as how to administer CPR and stop a child from choking will be held at the Trafalgar pub, near St George’s hospital.
(20) The MP for Tooting has demanded ministers put an end to individuals using anonymous off-shore tax havens to buy up houses and land.
Trot
Definition:
(v. i.) To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
(n.) Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
(v. t.) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
(v. i.) The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.
(v. i.) Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
(v. i.) One who trots; a child; a woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) All horses underwent a gradually increasing exercise programme consisting of walking and trotting beginning one week after the first injection and continuing for 24 weeks.
(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) Simeone, despite having received his marching orders, trots up to accept his gong from Michel Platini.
(4) Taken together, these results are consistent with the notion that, in normal cat locomotion up to a medium trot, anterior thigh motoneurons are progressively recruited in an orderly fashion.
(5) For example, as a junior working in the neonatal intensive care unit at King’s College hospital in 2004, I worked seven 15-hour night shifts on the trot.
(6) They trot through the car park to the Merc and are on the motorway in minutes.
(7) The sea I could take or leave, but the trotting was amazing.
(8) The trotting category (Civettictis civetta, Ichneumia albicauda) is characterized by longer epipodials and metapodials and a more proximal position of muscle bellies.
(9) US network ABC has commissioned a new documentary-style series following Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear et al, and their everyday travails rather than the globe-trotting, song-and-dance adventures that have characterised their film outings.
(10) 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.
(11) An attack on Syria or Iran or any other US "demon" would draw on a fashionable variant, "Responsibility to Protect", or R2P – whose lectern-trotting zealot is the former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans , co-chair of a " global centre " based in New York.
(12) Evidence used to convict the trio included photographs of Greste’s parents; a song by the musician Gotye; footage of trotting horses; and a press conference in Kenya.
(13) The luteal activity in mares was studied in the Equine Research Station (ERS) and in trotting stables (TS) in South-Finland.
(14) Of all the excuses for doing nothing, the argument most often trotted out is that whatever contribution Britain, or even the whole EU, made to reducing carbon emissions would be more than offset by the rapid growth of coal-fired power stations in China.
(15) A brief blast of hot heat, but soon everyone's smiling as they trot back up the pitch.
(16) The new commissions come on top of a number of forthcoming dramas, including Dahl’s Esio Trot and an adaptation of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy.
(17) Clinton, while trotting out her plan on college affordability , has been robust in her attacks on Republican candidates of late – speaking out against gaffes on women’s reproductive rights from Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.
(18) The interlude lasted barely 10 seconds before the vixen trotted out and resumed her nocturnal warbling.
(19) Paul Ryan gave a speech as well, and it delivered hormone-injected red meat to a hungry crowd, but it didn't show anyone anything new: In fact, he has been trotting out pieces of it to the stump ever since he accepted the position.
(20) Interlimb co-ordination typical of swimming (or trotting) in adult quadrupedal vertebrates was already present on postnatal day 1, and so apparently the neural pattern generating circuitry for this behaviour is already established by this stage.