What's the difference between trot and trow?

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.

Trow


Definition:

  • (n.) A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish.
  • (v. i. & t.) To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cllr Steve Trow Labour, Sandwell council, West Midlands
  • (2) An initial research centre has been formed to try to trow light upon the origins of such disagreements and we are now pleased to report back their initial findings.
  • (3) Pythium ultimum Trow and Pythium debaryanum (Hesse) were proved in rhizosphere of emerging sugar-beet.
  • (4) A high parasitic ability of Pythium oligandrum on Pythium ultimum Trow, P. debaryanum Hesse, and Aphanomyces laevis De By species was proved in this study of relationships among these fungi, commonly populating the rhizosphere of emerging sugar beet.