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How to pronounce gait in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms pace
Type of rate
Has types quick time, double time
Type Words
Type of locomotion, travel
Has types lope, canter, jog trot, walk, rack, gallop, single-foot, trot
Type Words
Type of walk, walking
Has types stalk, strut, stumble, swagger, waddle, angry walk, flounce, hitch, hobble, limp, lurch, pacing, prance, roll, saunter, skip, stagger

Examples of gait

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He walks with a rolling, nautical gait, bottom sticking out, like Norman Wisdom.
From the telegraph.co.uk
His artificial hips have reduced a once long gait to little more than a shuffle.
From the ocregister.com
Ordonez grinned humbly as he approached the dais, with his gentle, gliding gait.
From the freep.com
The most common symptoms are blurred vision, awkward gait, numbness and fatigue.
From the sciencedaily.com
Hence pronunciations like hame, stane, gait for southern home, stone, goat, etc.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Her initial symptoms included double vision, a drooping eyelid and a slow gait.
From the post-gazette.com
Their mental acuity had risen measurably, and they had improved gait and posture.
From the newsweek.com
His friends call it the Greenport Shuffle, for its eventual effect on one's gait.
From the nytimes.com
When people notice the slight delay of gait in my left foot, frequently they ask.
From the ocregister.com
More examples
  • Pace: the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
  • A horse's manner of moving
  • A person's manner of walking
  • Gait is the pattern of movement of the limbs of animals, including humans, during locomotion over a solid substrate. Most animals use a variety of gaits, selecting gait based on speed, terrain, the need to maneuver, and energetic efficiency. ...
  • The gait of a dog is its quality of movement. It is given a great deal of importance in the breed standard of some breeds, of lesser importance in other standards, and in some breeds gait is not described in the standard at all. A dog's gait is much similar to a horse's.
  • Horse gaits are the various ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of specialized training by humans.Ensminger, M. E. Horses and Horsemanship 6th edition USA: Interstate Publishers 1990 ISBN 0-8134-2883-1 p. 65-66
  • Human gait is the way locomotion is achieved using human limbs. Different gaits are characterized by differences in limb movement patterns, overall velocity, forces, kinetic and potential energy cycles, and changes in the contact with the surface (ground, floor, etc.).
  • GAIT (an acronym for the GSM-ANSI-136 Interoperability Team) is a wireless standard developed in 1999 that allows cross-operation of mobile telephone technologies. ...
  • How an individual walks. Normal gait requires the proper functioning of the nervous system and the musculoskeletal system.