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walk

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–verb (used without object)

1.	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.

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

3.	(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.

4.	Baseball. to receive a base on balls.

Slang.

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

b.	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.

6.	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.

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

9.	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.

–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.

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

17.	to spend or pass (time) in walking (often fol. 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.

–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.

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, esp. coffee trees.

38.	a group, company, or congregation, esp. of snipes.

39.

British.

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

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

c.	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.

—Verb phrases

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

43.

walk off with,

a.	to remove illegally; steal.

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

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

44.

walk out,

a.	to go on strike.

b.	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.

47.

walk through, Theater, Television.

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

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

c.	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.

—Idioms

49.	take a walk, Informal. to leave, esp. 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,

a.	to be forced by another to walk on tiptoe.

b.	to walk cautiously.

c.	to be discharged or dismissed.

d.	to discharge or dismiss (someone).

52.	walk the plank. plank (def. 8).

Origin:
bef. 1000; (v.) ME walken, OE wealcan to roll, toss, gewealcan to go; c. D, G walken to full (cloth), ON vālka to toss; (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.

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.

base on balls

–noun, plural bases on balls. Baseball.

the awarding of first base to a batter to whom four balls have been pitched.

Also called walk, pass.

Origin:
1890–95

race walking

–noun

the sport of rapid, continuous-foot-contact walking, requiring that the trailing foot not be lifted until the other meets the ground and the knee locks momentarily, and executed in an upright, rhythmic stride with the arms usually held bent and high and pumped close to the body.

Also called walking, the walk, heel-and-toe racing.

Related forms:

race walker, noun

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walk (wôk)

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 throughTo 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 airTo feel elated.

Idiom(s):
walk out onTo desert or abandon.

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

Idiom(s):
walk the plankTo 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

Walk\, n. 1. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.

2. (Sporting) (a) A place for keeping and training puppies. (b) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.

Walk

Walk\, v. t. 1. (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [Cant]

2. To move in a manner likened to walking. [Colloq.]

She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force. --C. E. Craddock.

To walk one's chalks, to make off; take French leave.

Walk

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.

Walk

Walk\, v. t. 1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.

As we walk our earthly round. --Keble.

2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses. " I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding." --Shak.

3. [AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.] To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [Obs. or Scot.]

To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. --Bartlett.

Walk

Walk\, n. 1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.

2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.

3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.

4. That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.

A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers. --Milton.

He had walk for a hundred sheep. --Latimer.

Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain. --Bryant.

5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.

The mountains are his walks. --Sandys.

He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. --Pope.

6. Conduct; course of action; behavior.

7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.]

Language Translation for : walk

Spanish: andar, caminar,

German: gehen (mit),

Japanese: 歩く

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walk

n.,vt. Traversal of a data structure, especially an array or linked-list data structure in core. See also codewalker, silly walk, clobber.

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walk (v.)

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 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 (n.)

c.1386, "act of walking" (see walk (v.)). The noun meaning "broad path in a garden" is from 1533; walk of life is from 1752. Sports sense of "base on balls" is recorded from 1905.

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.

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

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.

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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