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–adjective

1.	considered as a person who can or does walk or something that walks: The hospital is caring for six walking patients. He's walking proof that people can lose weight quickly.

2.	used for or as an aid in walking: She put on her walking shoes and went out.

3.	suitable for, characterized by, or consisting of walking: True sightseeing is a walking affair. We took a walking tour of Spain.

4.	of or pertaining to an implement or machine drawn by a draft animal and operated or controlled by a person on foot: a walking plow.

5.	of or pertaining to a mechanical part that moves back and forth.

–noun

6.	the act or action of a person or thing that walks: Walking was the best exercise for him.

7.	the manner or way in which a person walks.

8.	the state or condition of the surface, terrain, etc., on which a person walks: The walking is dry over here.

9.	race walking.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME; see walk, -ing², -ing¹

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walk Audio Help   (wôk) Pronunciation Key
v.   walked, walk·ing, walks

v.   intr.

To move over a surface by taking steps with the feet at a pace slower than a run: a baby learning to walk; a horse walking around a riding ring.
1. To go or travel on foot: walked to the store.
2. To go on foot for pleasure or exercise; stroll: walked along the beach looking for shells.
3. To move in a manner suggestive of walking: saw a woodpecker walking up the tree trunk.
4. To go out on strike.
5. To resign from one's job abruptly; quit.
6. To be acquitted: The alleged killer walked.
7. Baseball To go to first base after the pitcher has thrown four pitches ruled as balls.
8. Basketball To move illegally while holding the ball; travel.
To conduct oneself or behave in a particular manner; live: walks in majesty and pride.
To appear as a supernatural being: The specter of famine walks through the land.
Slang
1. To go out on strike.
2. To resign from one's job abruptly; quit.
3. To be acquitted: The alleged killer walked.
4. Baseball To go to first base after the pitcher has thrown four pitches ruled as balls.
5. Basketball To move illegally while holding the ball; travel.
1. Baseball To go to first base after the pitcher has thrown four pitches ruled as balls.
2. Basketball To move illegally while holding the ball; travel.
Obsolete To be in constant motion.

v. tr.

To go or pass over, on, or through by walking: walk the financial district of a city.
To bring to a specified condition by walking: They walked me to exhaustion.
To cause to walk or proceed at a walk: walk a horse uphill.
To accompany in walking; escort on foot: walk the children home; walked me down the hall.
To traverse on foot in order to survey or measure; pace off: walked the bounds of the property.
To move (a heavy or cumbersome object) in a manner suggestive of walking: walked the bureau into the hall.
Baseball
1. To allow (a batter) to go to first base by throwing four pitches ruled as balls.
2. To cause (a run) to score by walking a batter. Often used with in.

1. The gait of a human or other biped in which the feet are lifted alternately with one part of a foot always on the ground.
2. The gait of a quadruped in which at least two feet are always touching the ground, especially the gait of a horse in which the feet touch the ground in the four-beat sequence of near hind foot, near forefoot, off hind foot, off forefoot.
3. The self-controlled extravehicular movement in space of an astronaut.
4. The rate at which one walks; a walking pace.
5. The characteristic way in which one walks.
6. Baseball A base on balls.
7. Basketball The act or an instance of moving illegally with the ball; traveling.
8. A track event in which contestants compete in walking a specified distance.
9. Racewalking.
10. An arrangement of trees or shrubs planted in widely spaced rows.
11. The space between such rows.
The act or an instance of walking, especially a stroll for pleasure or exercise.
1. The rate at which one walks; a walking pace.
2. The characteristic way in which one walks.
3. Baseball A base on balls.
4. Basketball The act or an instance of moving illegally with the ball; traveling.
5. A track event in which contestants compete in walking a specified distance.
6. Racewalking.
7. An arrangement of trees or shrubs planted in widely spaced rows.
8. The space between such rows.
The distance covered or to be covered in walking.
A place, such as a sidewalk or promenade, on which one may walk.
A route or circuit particularly suitable for walking: one of the prettiest walks in the area.
1. Baseball A base on balls.
2. Basketball The act or an instance of moving illegally with the ball; traveling.
3. A track event in which contestants compete in walking a specified distance.
4. Racewalking.
5. An arrangement of trees or shrubs planted in widely spaced rows.
6. The space between such rows.
Sports
1. A track event in which contestants compete in walking a specified distance.
2. Racewalking.
3. An arrangement of trees or shrubs planted in widely spaced rows.
4. The space between such rows.
An enclosed area designated for the exercise or pasture of livestock.
1. An arrangement of trees or shrubs planted in widely spaced rows.
2. The space between such rows.
To go on strike.
To leave suddenly, often as a signal of disapproval.
To treat badly or contemptuously.
To gain an easy or uncontested victory over.

Phrasal Verb(s):
walk out

To go on strike.
To leave suddenly, often as a signal of disapproval.

walk over Informal

To treat badly or contemptuously.
To gain an easy or uncontested victory over.

walk through
To perform (a play, for example) in a perfunctory fashion, as at a first rehearsal.

Idiom(s):
walk away from

To outdo, outrun, or defeat with little difficulty.
To survive (an accident) with very little injury.

Idiom(s):
walk off/away with

To win easily or unexpectedly.
To steal.

Idiom(s):
walk on air
To feel elated.

Idiom(s):
walk (someone) through
To guide (someone) deliberately through (a process), one step at a time: She walked me through the installation of new software.

Idiom(s):
walk out on
To desert or abandon.

Idiom(s):
walk the plank
To be forced, as by pirates, to walk off a plank extended over the side of a ship so as to drown.

[Middle English walken, from Old English wealcan, to roll; see wel-² in Indo-European roots.]

walk'a·bil'i·ty n., walk'a·ble adj.

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walk·ing Audio Help (wô'kĭng) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Able to walk despite injury or illness.
Regarded as having the capabilities or qualities of a specified object: a teacher who is a walking dictionary.
Used, intended, or suitable for walking: walking clothes; a walking trail; walking distance.
Marked by the act of walking: a walking trip.
Guided by a person who walks alongside. Used of a machine or farming tool.

The action of one that walks.
The state of the surface on which one walks: The walking was treacherous after the ice storm.

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walking

c.1400, pp. adj. from walk (v.). Walking sickness, one in which the sufferer is able to get about and is not bed-ridden, is from 1846. Walking wounded is recorded from 1917. Walking bass is attested from 1939 in jazz slang. Walking stick is recorded from 1580; the insect so called from 1760.

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walking
adjective
1.	close enough to be walked to; "walking distance"; "the factory with the big parking lot...is more convenient than the walk-to factory" [syn: walk-to]
noun
1.	the act of traveling by foot; "walking is a healthy form of exercise" [syn: walk]

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Main Entry: walk·ing
Pronunciation: 'wo-ki[ng]
Function: adjective
: able to walk :

AMBULATORY

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Walking

Walk\ (w[add]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Walked; p. pr. & vb. n. Walking.] [OE. walken, probably from AS. wealcan to roll, turn, revolve, akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. v[=a]lka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; but cf. also AS. weallian to roam, ramble, G. wallen. [root]130.]

1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.

At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. --Dan. iv. 29.

When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. --Matt. xiv. 29.

Note: In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four.

2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.

3. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.

I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again. --Shak.

When was it she last walked? --Shak.

4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] "Her tongue did walk in foul reproach." --Spenser.

Do you think I'd walk in any plot? --B. Jonson.

I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. --Latimer.

5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.

We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. --Jer. Taylor.

6. To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.]

He will make their cows and garrans to walk. --Spenser.

To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house.

To walk after the flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. --Rom. viii. 1.

To walk after the Spirit (Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. --Rom. viii. 1.

To walk by faith (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. --2 Cor. v. 7.

To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin. --1 John i. 6.

To walk in the flesh (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. --2 Cor. x. 3.

To walk in the light (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. --1 John i. 7.

To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest.

To walk through the fire (Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions. --Isa. xliii. 2.

To walk with God (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.

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