walk
IPA: wˈɔk
noun
- A trip made by walking.
- A distance walked.
- (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
- (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
- (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
- (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- (UK, finance, slang, dated) A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
- A surname.
- (biochemistry) A particular histidine kinase
verb
- (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
- (transitive) To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- (intransitive) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
- (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- (transitive, informal, hotel) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
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Examples of "walk" in Sentences
- I shall never forget that walk home -- _walk_ I call it, though, wherever running was possible, I _ran_.
- We have lots of birds around the house and most the land is private but there is public land a 5 min walk from the house.
- -- _Fill out the following forms, using the principal parts of the verb walk -- present +walk+; past +walked+; past participle +walked+: _ --
- Of the slew of candidates and wannabee candidates running for the grand prize of President, how many really \ 'talk the talk\', let alone \ 'walk the walk\'?
- So that they who dwell in God dwell in love, and they are constraind to walk in it; and if they walk in it, they have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
- Though he has been on scholarship for the past two seasons, Mr. Merriewether, who wasn't recruited, says he's offended by the term walk-on and has done everything he can to welcome the nonscholarship players into the team's rituals.
- A certain Bishop of London (the late Beilby Porteus) more than 200 years after the death of the aforesaid Bonner, just as the clock of the gothic chapel had struck six, undertook to cut, with his own hand, a narrow walk through this thicket, which is since called the _Monk's walk_.
- High Supremacy Member it ish alsho possible to live in TPY and ghost to nearby hereen walk walk~ if 1 against 10. go for the weakest, smallest guy. grab him hostage. try to escape. if its possible to convince urself that u live in heeren when u're living in TPY in reality, what is beating 10 guys?
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