Word Meanings - GAIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A going; a walk; a march; a way. Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor folks pass. Shak. 2. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. 'T is Cinna; I do know him by his gait. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GAIT)

• Carriage
• Transportation
• conveyance
• bearing
• manner
• conduct
• demeanor
• walk
• gait
• mien
• behavior
• deportment
• vehicle
• Pace
• Step
• stride
• tread
• Advance
• pace
• space
• grade
• remove
• degree
• gradation
• progression
• track
• trice
• proceeding
• action
• measure

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GAIT)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion

Related words: (words related to GAIT)

• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• PROCEEDER
  One who proceeds.
• TRICENTENARY
  Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• PROCEEDING
  The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn. -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction. (more info) 1. The act
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• STRIDE
  strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. strida to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG. stritan; of uncertain origin. 1. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• FRICATRICE
  A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
• PHYSOGRADE
  Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• FRATRICELLI
  The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• RETROGRADATION
  1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline.
• SALTIGRADE
  Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.