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Your body's unconscious signature — harder to fake than a voice.
means The particular way a person or animal walks or runs, the rhythm and pattern of their steps.
from From Middle English 'gate,' meaning a way, path, or manner of going — itself borrowed from Old Norse 'gata,' meaning road or street (the same root survives in Scandinavian street names and in the English word 'gate' used for a street, as in some old city lane names). Over time the 'road' sense narrowed to mean the manner of movement along it — how you go, not just where.
- forensic use
- Police now identify suspects by walk alone
- first steps
- Humans are the only mammal that walks fully upright
- tell
- Changes subtly before you consciously feel injured
- animal switch
- Horses change gait entirely based on speed, not effort