walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wôk
ipa: /wɔːk/
ipa: /waːk/
ipa: /woːk/
enpr: wôk
ipa: /wɔk/
enpr: wäk
ipa: /wɑk/
homophone: wok (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: walks
Etymology: From Middle English walk, walke, walc, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“a rolling motion, attack”), from Proto-Germanic *walką. Cognate with Icelandic válk (“a rolling around, a tossing to and fro, trouble, distress”).
Senses: examples: text: I take a walk every morning.
text: FOUR BAPTISMS IN YING-SHAN
We had looked forward to four or five days' work in Ying-shan similar to that in Yün-mung,but at the end of our two days' walk from the one city to the other (they lie more than fifty miles apart), Mr. Terrell had a touch of fever, so we judged it best to remain in Ying-shan only for a day and then travel as quickly as possible by chair to Teh-ngan to consult our good friend, Dr. Morley, of the Wesleyan Mission Hospital in that city, and from thence take boat for Hankow.
ref: 1894, “From Month to Month”, in The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, number 33, Readers Union, →OCLC, page 220:
glosses: A trip made by walking.
examples: text: It’s a long walk from my house to the library.
text: The precinct is about ten minutes’ walk, straight ahead, so you can’t miss it.
glosses: A distance walked.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.
glosses: A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
coordinate_terms: trail
glosses: A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
examples: text: Men like Stuart who had no desire to extol Coleridge's virtues, and other witnesses quite as hostile, to whom a moral dereliction could hardly be a mortal offence, were loud in praise of the purity of his walk in life.
ref: 1887, Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, Sir Hall Caine, John Parker Anderson, Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, page 136:
glosses: A person's conduct or course in life.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
examples: text: The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: 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".
glosses: In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1755, William Belgrove, A Treatise upon Husbandry or Planting, Boston, page 14:
text: For half a mile from Vaughansfield the road, now a mere track, leads through pastures and a coffee-walk to the foot of a very steep hill […]
ref: 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 4, page 80:
text: 1961, Wilson Harris, The Far Journey of Oudin, Book 2, Chapter 6, in The Guyana Quartet, London: Faber and Faber, 1985, p. 150,
One day he knew he would build this identical palace for himself. Not next to the road like now—where the present cottage was—but half a mile inside the coconut walk.
text: He couldn’t sleep and took to walking outside at night, to look at the stars, to feel the cool air, and for a long time wasn’t even conscious that he always ended up standing in the darkness of the cocoa walk staring at the shutters of Bridget’s room.
ref: 1995, Olive Senior, “Window”, in Discerner of Hearts, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 66:
glosses: An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
glosses: A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
glosses: An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1980, Robert Barr, The Coming Out Present (episode of Detective, BBC radio drama; around 16 min 20 sec)
glosses: Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
topics: business
finance
glosses: 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).
Synonyms: sense: trip made by walking
english: slow walk
translation: slow walk
word: stroll
sense: trip made by walking
english: long walk
translation: long walk
word: hike
sense: trip made by walking
english: long walk
translation: long walk
word: trek
sense: distance walked
english: if long
translation: if long
word: hike
sense: distance walked
english: if long
translation: if long
word: trek
sense: manner of walking
word: gait
sense: path
word: footpath
sense: path
word: path
sense: path
word: pavement
sense: path
word: sidewalk
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of walk (noun)
word: cakewalk
sense: Hyponyms of walk (noun)
word: catwalk
sense: Hyponyms of walk (noun)
word: farmer's walk
sense: Hyponyms of walk (noun)
word: intentional walk
sense: Hyponyms of walk (noun)
word: perp walk
sense: Hyponyms of walk (noun)
word: race walk
sense: Hyponyms of walk (noun)
word: sidewalk
sense: Hyponyms of walk (noun)
word: space walk
sense: Hyponyms of walk (noun)
word: spacewalk
sense: Hyponyms of walk (noun)
word: sponsored walk
sense: Hyponyms of walk (noun)
word: whistle walk
Coordinate terms: sense: Terms related to walk (noun)
word: path
sense: Terms related to walk (noun)
word: trail
Derived terms: airwalk
awe walk
birdwalk
boardwalk
bug-walk
cake walk
captain's walk
cock of the walk
coin walk
cradle walk
crawl before one can walk
Crip walk
directed walk
do you think you can walk
drunkard's walk
duck walk
elephant walk
front walk
gravel-walk
honor walk
in a walk
Jericho walk
know how to walk before one can run
learn to walk before one can run
Lévy walk
monkey walk
power walk
privilege walk
public walk
race-walk
random walk
riverwalk
ropewalk
RP walk
run-walk
sheepwalk
sheep walk
sidewalk
slow-walk
spacewalk
Spanish walk
take a long walk off a short pier
take a long walk on a short pier
take a walk
take a walk on the wild side
tightrope walk
walk after lunch
walk cycle
walk in the park
walk in the snow
walk of fame
walk of life
walk of shame
walk on the wild side
walk policy
walk shorts
walkthrough
wall walk
widow's walk
wiki walk
zombie walk