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| 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. |
| 5. | Slang.
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| 6. | to go about on the earth, or appear to living persons, as a ghost: to believe that spirits walk at night. |
| 7. | (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. |
| 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. |
| 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.
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| 40. | Archaic. manner of behavior; conduct; course of life. |
| 41. | Obsolete. a haunt or resort. |
| 42. | walk off, to get rid of by walking: to walk off a headache. |
| 43. | walk off with,
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| 44. | walk out,
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| 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.
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| 48. | walk up, (of a hunter) to flush (game) by approaching noisily on foot and often with hunting dogs. |
| 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,
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| 52. | walk the plank. plank (def. 8). |
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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.