name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A trip made by walking.
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noun
A distance walked.
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noun
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.
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Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
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noun
A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
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noun
A person's conduct or course in life.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
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Topics: card-games, poker
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noun
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".
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Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
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noun
An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
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Usage: Belize, Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica
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noun
A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
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Usage: historical
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noun
An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
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Usage: historical
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noun
A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
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Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
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Usage: colloquial
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noun
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).
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Usage: UK, dated, slang
Topics: business, finance
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noun
A particular histidine kinase
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Usage: uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
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.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
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Usage: colloquial, intransitive
Topics: law
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verb
Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
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Usage: colloquial, euphemistic, intransitive
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verb
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.
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Usage: intransitive
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
To travel (a distance) by walking.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
To reach base by being pitched four balls.
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Usage: intransitive
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To cause something to move in such a way.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To leave, resign.
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Usage: colloquial, intransitive
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verb
To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
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.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To be in motion; to act; to move.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
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Usage: historical, transitive
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verb
To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
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Usage: informal, transitive
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verb
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.)
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Usage: intransitive
Qualifier: such as a drill bit or reamer
Topics: engineering, machining, mechanical-engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
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Topics: games, paintball
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noun
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: base on balls, pass
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Broader terms: accomplishment, achievement
noun
the act of traveling by foot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: walking
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Broader terms: locomotion, travel
Narrower terms: ambulation, sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation, gait, march, marching, plodding, plod, prowl, shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling, wading
noun
the act of walking somewhere
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Broader terms: travel, traveling, travelling
Narrower terms: amble, promenade, saunter, stroll, perambulation, constitutional, foot, hike, hiking, tramp, last mile, moonwalk, turn, walkabout, walk-through
noun
a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
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Broader terms: gait
noun
careers in general
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Synonyms: walk of life
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Broader terms: career, calling, vocation
noun
a path set aside for walking
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Synonyms: walkway, paseo
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Broader terms: path
Narrower terms: ambulatory, boardwalk, catwalk, flagging, promenade, mall, sidewalk, pavement, skywalk
noun
manner of walking
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Synonyms: manner of walking
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Broader terms: carriage, bearing, posture
verb
obtain a base on balls
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Broader terms: score, hit, tally, rack up
verb
give a base on balls to
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Broader terms: play
verb
take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
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Synonyms: take the air
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Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
Narrower terms: constitutionalize
verb
use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
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Antonyms: ride
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
Narrower terms: tramp down, trample, tread down, lollop, tap, stumble, falter, bumble, spacewalk, foot, leg it, hoof, hoof it, toe, traipse, shlep, perambulate, walk about, walk around, ambulate, sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot, wade, tittup, swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock, sleepwalk, somnambulate, slink, limp, gimp, hobble, hitch, shuffle, scuffle, shamble, stroll, saunter, amble, mosey, prowl, skulk, toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle, promenade, march, stride, hike, slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp, tiptoe, tip, tippytoe, stalk, flounce, stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen, flounder, stomp, stamp, stump, lumber, pound, pace, tread, slouch, mince, clump, clomp, process, step
verb
make walk
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Broader terms: compel, oblige, obligate
Narrower terms: parade, exhibit, march
verb
accompany or escort
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Broader terms: accompany
Narrower terms: trot, march
verb
traverse or cover by walking
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Broader terms: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
verb
walk at a pace
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Broader terms: pace
verb
be or act in association with
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Broader terms: consociate, associate
verb
live or behave in a specified manner
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Broader terms: behave, comport
History
* As a German surname, variant of Walke. * As an English surname, from the noun and verb walk.
From Middle English walc, walk, walke, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“rolling, turning; motion, surging”), from Proto-Germanic *walką. Cognate with Icelandic volk (“difficulty, hardship, trouble”).
From Middle English walk, walke, walken, walkyn, wolken (“to roll, toss, or turn; to walk; to move; to be living; to beat or full; to perform”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move around; to revolve; to roll; to fluctuate; to discuss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse; to roll”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up, twist; to wrinkle”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to roll, toss, turn, wind; to walk, wander, wend; to full, trample”), *walkōną (“to roll about; to full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”). Cognates Cognate with Bavarian woikn (“to full, tan; to knead dough; to roll out dough”), Cimbrian balchan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Dutch zwalken (“to walk around”), German walken (“to full, tan, walk; to knead; to beat up”), Danish valke (“to full, walk, waulk”), Faroese válka (“make dirty; stir up dirt”), Swedish valka (“to full cloth, to waulk”); also Latin valgus (“bent out; bandy, bow-legged”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.
Across languages
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