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verb (used without object)

to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.

to move about or travel on foot for exercise or pleasure: We can walk in the park after lunch.

(of things) to move in a manner suggestive of walking, as through repeated vibrations or the effect of alternate expansion and contraction: He typed so hard that the lamp walked right off the desk.

Baseball. to receive a base on balls.

Slang.

to go on strike; stage a walkout: The miners will walk unless they get a pay raise.

to be acquitted or to be released or fined rather than sentenced to jail: If the prosecutor doesn't present his case well, the murderer may walk.

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to go about on the earth, or appear to living persons, as a ghost: to believe that spirits walk at night.

(of a tool, pointer, or pen of a recording device, etc.) to glide, slip, or move from a straight course, fixed position, or the like: A regular drill bit may walk on a plastic surface when you first try to make a hole. When the earthquake started, the pen on the seismograph walked all over the paper.

to conduct oneself in a particular manner; pursue a particular course of life: to walk humbly with thy God.

Basketball. (of a player in possession of the ball) to take more than two steps without dribbling or passing the ball.

10.

Obsolete. to be in motion or action.

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verb (used with object)

11.

to proceed through, over, or upon at a moderate pace on foot: walking London streets by night; walking the floor all night.

12.

to cause to walk; lead, drive, or ride at a walk, as an animal: We walked our horses the last quarter of a mile.

13.

to force or help to walk, as a person: They were walking him around the room soon after his operation.

14.

to conduct or accompany on a walk: He walked them about the park.

15.

to move (a box, trunk, or other object) in a manner suggestive of walking, as by a rocking motion.

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16.

Baseball. (of a pitcher) to give a base on balls to (a batter).

17.

to spend or pass (time) in walking (often followed by away): We walked the morning away along the beach.

18.

to cause or accomplish by walking: We saw them walking guard over the chain gang.

19.

to examine, measure, etc., by traversing on foot: to walk a track; to walk the boundaries of the property.

20.

Basketball. to advance (the ball) by taking more than two steps without dribbling or passing.

21.

Informal. to send (a person who has a reservation at a hotel) to another hotel because of overbooking: It's exasperating to find yourself walked when you arrive at a hotel late in the evening.

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noun

22.

an act or instance of walking or going on foot.

23.

a period of walking for exercise or pleasure: to go for a walk.

24.

a distance walked or to be walked, often in terms of the time required: not more than ten minutes' walk from town.

25.

the gait or pace of a person or an animal that walks.

26.

a characteristic or individual manner of walking: It was impossible to mistake her walk.

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27.

a department or branch of activity, or a particular line of work: They found every walk of life closed against them.

28.

Baseball. base on balls.

29.

a path or way for pedestrians at the side of a street or road; sidewalk.

30.

a place prepared or set apart for walking.

31.

a path in a garden or the like.

32.

a passage between rows of trees.

33.

an enclosed yard, pen, or the like where domestic animals are fed and left to exercise.

34.

the walk. race walking.

35.

a sheepwalk.

36.

a ropewalk.

37.

(in the West Indies) a plantation of trees, especially coffee trees.

38.

a group, company, or congregation, especially of snipes.

39.

British.

the route of a street vendor, tradesman, or the like.

the district or area in which such a route is located.

a tract of forest land under the charge of one forester or keeper.

40.

Archaic. manner of behavior; conduct; course of life.

41.

Obsolete. a haunt or resort.

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Verb phrases

42.

walk off, to get rid of by walking: to walk off a headache.

43.

walk off with,

to remove illegally; steal.

to win or attain, as in a competition: to walk off with the first prize for flower arrangements.

to surpass one's competitors; win easily: to walk off with the fight.

44.

walk out,

to go on strike.

to leave in protest: to walk out of a committee meeting.

45.

walk out on, to leave unceremoniously; desert; forsake: to walk out on one's family.

46.

walk out with, British. to court or be courted by: Cook is walking out with the chauffeur.

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47.

walk through, Theater, Television.

to release (a play) by combining a reading aloud of the lines with the designated physical movements.

Informal. to perform (a role, play, etc.) in a perfunctory manner.

to make little or no effort in performing one's role: He didn't like the script and walked through his part.

48.

walk up, (of a hunter) to flush (game) by approaching noisily on foot and often with hunting dogs.

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Idioms

49.

take a walk, Informal. to leave, especially abruptly and without any intention or prospect of returning (often used imperatively to indicate dismissal): If he doesn't get his way, he takes a walk. I don't need your advice, so take a walk.

50.

walk (someone) through, to guide or instruct carefully one step at a time: The teacher will walk the class through the entire testing procedure before the real test begins.

51.

walk Spanish,

to be forced by another to walk on tiptoe.

to walk cautiously.

to be discharged or dismissed.

to discharge or dismiss (someone).

52.

walk the plank. plank (def. 8).

Origin:
before 1000; (v.) Middle English walken, Old English wealcan to roll, toss, gewealcan to go; cognate with Dutch, German walken to full (cloth), Old Norse vālka to toss; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.

Related forms

un·walked, adjective

Synonyms
1. step, stride, stroll, saunter, ambulate, perambulate, promenade. 22. stroll, promenade, constitutional. 25. step, carriage. 27. sphere, area, field. 29, 30. passage, footpath, alley, avenue. 33. run.

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Example Sentences

The boy had begged and his parents had said yes, he could walk part of the way home from day camp by himself.

Get up with everyone and walk to the end of the pew, letting everyone out of the row.

Thousands of business-school professors walk into a conference.

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The boy had begged and his parents had said yes, he could walk part of the way home from day camp by himself.

Get up with everyone and walk to the end of the pew, letting everyone out of the row.

Thousands of business-school professors walk into a conference.

Researchers had people walk in the desert and through a forest.

New micro-mapping software lets travelers plot points of interest while they walk.

For more views, walk the wall that surrounds the old town.

Oklahoma paleontologists discover what may have been the largest creature ever to walk the earth.

If golf is a good walk spoiled, then walking is a great game made dull.

But the only way to know for certain that a particular path is a dead end is to walk down it a bit and see what happens.

Walk a few steps farther north to see this notorious landmark for yourself.

But for a bot, a stroll along the beach-or in the desert-is no walk in the park.

If workers feel there is a safe outdoor walk or biking path near their work, they're apt to be more active.

Until recently, robots that walk on legs have been more of a novelty than a practical area of research.

But the scolding left some students scratching their heads, since the walk didn't include any real elephants.

Walk past trattorias and a solitary abbey to a rocky promontory with the sea always in full view and a clear sky overhead.

Consider how mystifying a walk through an art museum can be.

Rats with injured spinal cords walk again with the help of stem-cell science.

In fact, it's been said that when you walk across this campus, you experience the world.

Walk the length of the high line through this time-lapse video sequence.

Inspiration often seems to pop up unpredictably-in the shower, on a long walk or even at the grocery store.

Even though they grew to be some of the largest animals ever to walk the earth, sauropod dinosaurs started off small.

Here's a shot by shot walk through of the registration process.

The ride takes two minutes, including the walk from one bank of elevators to.

Turn right and walk through hundreds of fresh produce, fruit, and fish stands.

We can walk and chew gum at the same time without bumping into utility poles.

She continued to walk down the hallway, as if resigned to.

In another case of nature-inspired engineering, scientists create robots that take a walk on the wet side.

The employee is frequently required to stand, walk and sit.

People really do walk faster in cities-the walking speed scales with city size.

Students have to read the cases in advance and be prepared to discuss them when they walk in the door.

The walk to and from school can't be uphill both ways, but going it alone might make it seem that way.

Women in many cultures routinely walk around topless, breastfeeding as needed when they have children.

The same sorts of loans that drove the housing boom are now giving borrowers incentives to walk away.

What that means is talking the turkey of job placement as soon as they walk in my door and tell me they want to do a.

To test this idea he trained his ants to walk from their nests to a feeding station through a ten-metre-long channel.

It was the first untethered walk ever and was among the last.

It's not that such a moment, one that transforms an afternoon walk into a lifelong memory, couldn't happen in another town.

Kennedy, joined by world and national leaders, will walk behind the horse-drawn caisson that bears her husband's body from the.

Oxford is a pleasant walk from campus and home to boutiques, coffeehouses, and unique restaurants.

What inveterate wearers sometimes gripe about is the niggling pain felt when forced to walk with their feet flat.

Here's a quiet game to play with your child when you're done playing in the snow or taking your a winter walk.

Then the police said it was too dangerous to walk around the neighborhood alone toting expensive camera gear.

Walk over the footbridge to explore the rose garden.

C and national champion, in the one-mile walk at the annual track and.

Denner shortly after the scholars finished their walk.

Fearing you will be stuck for ever, you take a walk.

But you walk on, till you see a group of friendly faces.

Walk along the footpath and experience the mystery and power of this effigy.

Gather beautiful individual leaves during a walk in the country or neighborhood.

No fast-food concessions, and you have to walk it yourself.

All you have to do is walk around the well-kept campus, with its glossy-brochure students and parking lots.

As soon as she could walk she wandered away, preferably into warm spring rain.

After a seven-hour walk in the forest, this horse is taking a break.

We walk on two legs, carry around enormous brains and have colonized every corner of the globe.

Elephants will physically support a sick or hurt relative trying to walk.

The islands are defined by meandering gravel paths and a flagstone walk.

Forget driving from dealership to dealership or threatening to walk out on a used car deal.

To follow the guidance of national mental-health experts is to walk a fine line.

But, as a short walk through any city centre will prove, it.

The detailed structure of mosquito legs enables the insects to walk on water, cling to walls and stick to human skin.

Walk through a ghost town and underground mine, recreated with precise detail.

With that free stake, pull the string taut and trace the patio's outline in the soil as you walk around the center stake.

Demand for adult-sized electric tricycles may grow as some of the obese find it hard to walk.

And horses and cows routinely walk around the entrances to prairie dog burrows.

We will walk without the spectre of hypocrisy to haunt our footfalls.

We walk around the roots, which shine slick in the winter sun.

For a year-long deployment, you walk out of the wire every day and do your best to walk back.

We have actually observed students walk up to a professor's office, see the door closed, and walk away dispirited.

But five minutes' walk away is another new act of remembrance.

The team found that brain dopamine surged as the drug-addicted rats turned to walk over to the lever.

The place is kind of hidden but once you step inside there are tons of pathways and walkways that are fun to walk around in.

The purpose of iMinds was to help distract and educate us while waiting in line or going for a walk.

He might as well have chosen to walk into a hurricane.

For that way one party has to walk away feeling bad about the outcome.

Presently the muscle gives her problems during day and night and she can not walk with out crutches or uses a wheel chair.

From the train station, walk uphill until you hit the parking lot.

Walk down to the beach after breakfast, and the mural comes to life.

It never occurred to the detectives that one of the robbers would walk right back into the district.

When you walk into an interview, your goal is to convey an image of yourself as a colleague.

For governments trying to walk the fine line between access and.

Instead, they often must walk long distances to wells and haul heavy containers of water back.

The scientists say that previous studies showed that obese individuals actually walk differently than those of average weight.

Sauropod dinosaurs were some of the largest animals to walk the earth, but they started off small.

Tours walk you from mash to barrel, and explain why you might pick up vanilla and citrus tones in the wheat-based vodka.

Walk into your local bookstore this afternoon and chances are the manga section is bigger than the science fiction collection.

Take a walk through your community, concentrating on all of the sounds that you hear.

If they ever had the ability to walk or speak, they lose those abilities.

The only was to get there was to walk or ride one's bicycle.

It also showed off its ability to walk on uneven surfaces, get back up when it's pushed over and come when it's called.

Try a walk in the park or get on a mountain bike and do a trail through the park.

Walk around until you find an interesting montage of light and shapes.

The desks are so close together that you can't walk down an aisle without turning sideways.

They walk the street in our towns and given the right ground they will create the same situation.

Pygmys look for a huge range of things as they walk through the jungle.

As an experiment, after a brisk walk on a cool morning remove your clothing and jump into bed.

Let me tell you how painful it is to have them stuck in your legs so you can hardly walk.

People are more likely to walk and not drive if feel safe.

It says that stock price movements are random resembling the random walk function.

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World English Dictionary

walk (wɔːk)

—vb
1.	(intr) to move along or travel on foot at a moderate rate; advance in such a manner that at least one foot is always on the ground
2.	(tr) to pass through, on, or over on foot, esp habitually
3.	(tr) to cause, assist, or force to move along at a moderate rate: to walk a dog
4.	(tr) to escort or conduct by walking: to walk someone home
5.	(intr) (of ghosts, spirits, etc) to appear or move about in visible form
6.	(of inanimate objects) to move or cause to move in a manner that resembles walking
7.	(intr) to follow a certain course or way of life: to walk in misery
8.	(tr) to bring into a certain condition by walking: I walked my shoes to shreds
9.	(tr) to measure, survey, or examine by walking
10.	(tr) baseball to allow a batter to go to first base without batting by throwing four balls outside of the strike zone
11.	(intr) basketball Also: travel to take more than two steps without passing or dribbling the ball
12.	to disappear or be stolen: where's my pencil? It seems to have walked
13.	slang chiefly (US) (intr) (in a court of law) to be acquitted or given a noncustodial sentence
14.	walk it to win easily
15.	walk the plank See plank
16.	walk on air to be delighted or exhilarated
17.	informal walk tall to have self-respect or pride
18.	walk the streets
	a. to be a prostitute
	b. to wander round a town or city, esp when looking for work or having nowhere to stay
19.	informal walk the walk, walk the talk See also talk to put theory into practice: you can talk the talk but can you walk the walk?

—n
20.	the act or an instance of walking
21.	the distance or extent walked
22.	a manner of walking; gait
23.	a place set aside for walking; promenade
24.	a chosen profession or sphere of activity (esp in the phrase walk of life)
25.	a foot race in which competitors walk
26.	a. an arrangement of trees or shrubs in widely separated rows
	b. the space between such rows
27.	an enclosed ground for the exercise or feeding of domestic animals, esp horses
28.	chiefly (Brit) the route covered in the course of work, as by a tradesman or postman
29.	a procession; march: Orange walk
30.	obsolete the section of a forest controlled by a keeper

[Old English wealcan; related to Old High German walchan, Sanskrit valgati he moves]

'walkable

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

walk

O.E. wealcan "to toss, roll," and wealcian "to roll up, curl, muffle up," from P.Gmc. *welk- (cf. O.N. valka "to drag about," Dan. valke "to full," M.Du. walken "to knead, press, full," O.H.G. walchan "to knead," Ger. walken "to full"), perhaps ult. from PIE base *wel- "to turn, bend, twist, roll" (see

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vulva). Meaning shifted in early M.E., perhaps from colloquial use of the O.E. word. "Rarely is there so specific a word as NE walk, clearly distinguished from both go and run" [Buck]. Meaning "to go away" is recorded from c.1460. Trans. meaning "to exercise a dog (or horse)" is from 1470. Walk-up in ref. to an apartment not accessible by elevator is attested from 1919 as an adj., 1925 as a noun. The surname Walker probably preserves the cloth-fulling sense.

walk

late 14c., "act of walking" (see walk (v.)). The noun meaning "broad path in a garden" is from 1530s; walk of life is from 1752. Sports sense of "base on balls" is recorded from 1905.

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Medical Dictionary

walk (wôk)
v. walked, walk·ing, walks
To move over a surface by taking steps with the feet at a pace slower than a run. n.

The gait of a human in which the feet are lifted alternately with one part of a foot always on the ground.
The characteristic way in which one walks.

Slang Dictionary

walk definition

n.
something easy. (Always with a in this sense. See also cakewalk; sleepwalk.) : That game was a walk!
in.
to walk out on someone; to quit a job. : They had a big fight, and he walked.
in.
to walk away from something unharmed. : It couldn't have been much of an accident. Both drivers walked.
in.
to get out of prison; to get off from a criminal charge. (Underworld.) : They thought they had Spike on a vice rap, but he walked.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

walk definition

programming
To Traverse a data structure, especially an array or linked-list in core.
See also codewalker, silly walk, clobber.
(2001-04-12)

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Idioms & Phrases

walk

In addition to the idioms beginning with walk, also see cock of the walk; hands down (in a walk); worship the ground someone walks on.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

walk

in horsemanship, moderately slow four-beat gait of a horse, during which each foot strikes the ground separately and the horse is supported by two or three feet at all times.

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"Please walk alone and send your love and your kisses to guide me."

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