gallop vs run up

gallop

verb
  • To run at a gallop. 

  • To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. 

  • To ride at a galloping pace. 

  • To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines. 

  • To run very fast. 

  • To progress rapidly through the body. 

  • To cause to gallop. 

noun
  • The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously. 

  • An act or instance of going or running rapidly. 

  • An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop. 

run up

verb
  • To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination. 

  • To approach (an event or point in time). 

  • To accumulate (a debt). 

  • To thrust up, as anything long and slender. 

  • To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly. 

  • To take to a destination or before an authority. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up. 

  • To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase. 

  • Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball. 

  • To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole. 

  • To erect hastily, as a building. 

  • To string up; to hang. 

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