Meaning of walk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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
2. To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
   colloquial, intransitive
3. To perform (a play, for example) in a perfunctory fashion, as at a first rehearsal.
4. Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
   colloquial, euphemistic, intransitive
5. Something that is easy to do or accomplish.
6. 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.
   intransitive
7. Slang The walk home from a place where one unexpectedly spent the night engaged in activity, especially casual sex, considered embarrassing or shameful.
   Slang
8. To travel (a distance) by walking.
   transitive
9. To feel elated.
10. To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
    transitive
11. To desert or abandon.
12. To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
    transitive
13. To guide (someone) deliberately through (a process), one step at a time: She walked me through the installation of new software.
14. To reach base by being pitched four balls.
    intransitive
15. To be forced, as by pirates, to walk off a plank extended over the side of a ship so as to drown.
16. Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
    intransitive
17. walk the plank, a. to go to one's death by being forced to walk off the end of a board that extends from the side of a ship.
18. To cause something to move in such a way.
    transitive
19. To go on foot:ambulate, foot, pace, step, tread.
20. To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
    transitive
21. To cease working in support of demands made upon an employer:strike.
22. To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
    transitive
23. To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
    transitive
24. To leave, resign.
    colloquial, intransitive
25. To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
    transitive
26. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
    intransitive
27. 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.
    intransitive
28. To be in motion; to act; to move.
    obsolete
29. To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
    historical, transitive
30. To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
    informal, transitive
31. 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.)
    intransitive
32. To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.

Equivalents

Examples

“To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.”

“Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.”

“Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.”

“If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.”

“If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.”

“I walk two miles to school every day.”

“The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.”

“I walk the dog every morning.”

“Will you walk me home?”

“I will rather trust[…]a thief to walk my ambling gelding.”

“If we don't bolt the washing machine down, it's going to walk across the room.”

“I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.”

“I walked the streets aimlessly.”

“Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.”

“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.”

“If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.”

“He will make their cowes and garrans to walk.”

“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.”

“We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.”

“October 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached at Stamford, link I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.”

“There have been reports of cases where, in the event of a girl having died, a man was chosen to go through the marriage ceremony and even have intercourse with the body, before burial, so that she might not "walk".”

“her toung did walke / In fowle reproch.”

“I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead / May walk again.”

“Come, doe you thinke, I'ld walke in any plot”

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