'gait' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is most commonly used to refer to the way someone walks or runs. For example, 'He had a distinctive gait, which made him easily recognizable in a crowd.'.
The three-gaited horses perform the walk, trot, and canter; the five-gaited horses in addition perform the rack, a quick, high-stepping four-beat gait, and the slow gait, a somewhat slower form of the rack.
With its unexpected revival, Ripper Street has grown broader shoulders and a more confident gait, while retaining the stillness that made it so impressive in the first place.
Before long, smartphones will be able to deduce our emotional state from our social interactions and tone of voice, while wearable sensors will measure adherence to "smart" medicines and gather important data on a range of factors relevant to mental health, including sleep quality, cardiovascular status, galvanic skin response and even gait.
A joint with a computer-controlled "smart" MR fluid, by contrast, can present a more even resistance, allowing for a more natural gait and enabling a prosthetic leg to adapt the knee swing as the wearer's gait changes.
The phone's accelerometer studies gait and balance while the user is walking.
If not for the residents' halting gait, the visitor might not realise that he has arrived at an unusual village.Anandwan is a rehabilitation centre for 1,800 leprosy patients.
At the American Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, a team of gait analysts and psychologists led by Frank Morelli study video, much of it conveniently posted on the internet by insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He was about the size of a front door, and he walked with the tender gait of a cheese-kneed football player, yet he also lamented the end of his mining career.
The new tracks, reported in Science by Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University, in Britain, and his colleagues, confirm that Homo erectus walked heel-to-toe as a modern human does, rather than with the ape-like gait of its own ancestors, the australopithecines.In this section The kindness of crowds Primates on Facebook OCOck up Sunny side up A footprint in the sands of time Reprints.
According to an 1880 report of the Bombay Presidency, an area dominated by the modern states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, members of a Pardhi sub-tribe are "always ragged and dirty, walking with a sneaking gait".In this section Playing for time Hu, Wen what, where, why and how Strange meeting The drought ends, the shouting starts If they were crooks, wouldn't they be richer?
It uses these to calculate the gait of the patient and work out how they are doing with the cane, giving them feedback about how they could make better use of it to recover from, for example, a hip replacement.
