walk

verb walks · walking · walked · walk

1. intransitive To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet: in the case of some non-human animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run. To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
2. colloquial, intransitive To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty. If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.

   Similar: be acquit

3. colloquial, euphemistic, intransitive Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.

   Similar: be, get stolen, get nick, get pinch

4. intransitive, 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.
5. transitive To travel (a distance) by walking. I walk two miles to school every day.
6. transitive To take for a walk or accompany on a walk. I walk the dog every morning.
7. intransitive, with in To appear in a parade. Those who wish to walk in the parade this fall should sign up now.
8. transitive To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
9. intransitive, of a batter To reach base by being pitched four balls.
10. intransitive Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking. If we don't bolt the washing machine down, it's going to walk across the room.
11. transitive To cause something to move in such a way. I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
12. transitive To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.

    Similar: full, waulk

13. transitive To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement). I walked the streets aimlessly.
14. transitive To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation. Still keeping his tail in the air, Red coaxed the “Airknocker” ahead and as we grasped his struts he slowly retarded the throttle. We walked the plane between two tiedown blocks and not until we had tied the struts did Red cut the switch.
15. colloquial, intransitive To leave, resign. If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
16. transitive To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks. The county had a successful defense only because the judge kept telling the jury at every chance that the cyclist should have walked his bicycle like a pedestrian.
17. intransitive To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself. We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.
18. intransitive 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. October 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached at Stamford, link I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
19. obsolete To be in motion; to act; to move. her toung did walke / In fowle reproch.
20. historical, transitive To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
21. informal, transitive To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
22. intransitive, of a tool To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
23. To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.

Similar: get off, go free, ambulate, navigate, pedestrianize, raik · Opposite: run

noun walks

1. A trip made by walking. I take a walk every morning.

   Similar: stroll, hike, trek

2. A distance walked. It’s a long walk from my house to the library.

   Similar: hike, trek

3. 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.
4. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking. The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.

   Similar: gait

5. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. And then it appeared to the young man that he was walking his love up the grass walk of Heriotside, with the house close by him.

   Similar: footpath, path, pavement, sidewalk

6. figuratively A person's conduct or course in life. people of different ages and walks
7. A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
8. 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". The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone.
9. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
10. Belize, Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees. Twenty Acres of Land well kept in a Plantain Walk, will afford a very considerable Support, as Plantains are as hearty a Food as Eddoes, and the Plantain Walk may be a Nursery for declining Slaves, as well as to fatten old Cattle when they are past Labour.
11. historical A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
12. historical An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
13. A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
14. colloquial Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park. And for the strongroom itself, he can tell us where to find the combination of the day. We had allowed four hours, Joe, but with this help, once you get us inside, it's a walk! I've been timing it.
15. UK, dated, slang 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).

proper noun

1. A surname.

noun

1. uncountable A particular histidine kinase