walk
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: walks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: walking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: walked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: walked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: walk
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: walk
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: walked
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: walk
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: walkest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: walked
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: walkedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: walks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: walketh
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: walked
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: walk
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: walked
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: walk
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: walked
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: walk
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: walking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: walked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: walke
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: walks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
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.
gloss: To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
gloss: Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
euphemistic
intransitive
examples: If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To travel (a distance) by walking.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I walk two miles to school every day.
The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
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.
gloss: To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I walk the dog every morning.
Will you walk me home?
I will rather trust[…]a thief to walk my ambling gelding.
gloss: To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reach base by being pitched four balls.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If we don't bolt the washing machine down, it's going to walk across the room.
gloss: To cause something to move in such a way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
gloss: To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I walked the streets aimlessly.
Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.
gloss: To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To leave, resign.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
He will make their cowes and garrans to walk.
gloss: To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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".
gloss: To be in motion; to act; to move.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: 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
gloss: To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
gloss: To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
gloss: 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.)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
pos: verb
gloss: A trip made by walking.
pos: noun
examples: I take a walk every morning.
go on a walk
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.
gloss: A distance walked.
pos: noun
examples: It’s a long walk from my house to the library.
The precinct is about ten minutes’ walk, straight ahead, so you can’t miss it.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
pos: noun
examples: The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.
gloss: A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A person's conduct or course in life.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
pos: noun
gloss: 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".
pos: noun
examples: The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone.
gloss: In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
pos: noun
gloss: An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
pos: noun
tags: Belize
Caribbean
Guyana
Jamaica
examples: 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.
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 […]
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.
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.
gloss: A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
pos: noun
gloss: Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: 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.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
slang
Synonyms: get off
go free
ambulate
pedestrianize
raik
Antonyms: run
Related words: move slowly
run
way
gait
journey
Derived words: dogwalk
frog-walk
management by walking about
management by walking around
perp-walk
walk about
walk all over
walk-alone
walk a mile in someone's shoes
walk and chew gum at the same time
walk around
walk around money
walk-around money
walk a straight line
walkathon
walk a tightrope
walk-away
walk away
walk back
walk back the cat
walk down the aisle
walker
Walker
walk good
walkies
walkie-talkie
walk-in
walk in circles
walk in on
walk in someone's shoes
walk in straight lines
walk it
walk it like one talks it
walk it off
walk like an Egyptian
Walkman
walkman
walk-off
walk off the job
walk off with
walk-on
walk on air
walk on broken glass
walk on eggshells
walk one's chalks
walk one's shots
walk-on girl
walk on one's lower lip
walk on sunshine
walk on water
walk out on
walk out with
walkover
walk-over
walk softly and carry a big stick
walk Spanish
walk the beat
walk the boards
walk the cat back
walk the chalk
walk the chalk line
walk the chalk mark
walk the dog
walk the floor
walk the gangplank
walk the hospitals
walk the line
walk the plank
walk the streets
walk the talk
walk the walk
walk-through
walk turkey
walk-up
walk with
walk on the wild side
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
fart 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 policy
walk shorts
walkthrough
wall walk
widow's walk
wiki walk
zombie walk
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: vapaataival
lang: French
word: but-sur-balles
lang: Japanese
word: 四球
roman: shikyū
lang: Japanese
word: フォアボール
roman: foa-bōru
lang: Korean
word: 사구
roman: sagu
lang: Korean
word: 포볼
roman: pobol
lang: Korean
word: 볼넷
roman: bollet