walk

verb23

1. •
   to go on foot at a normal speed, never having both feet in the air at the same time

   • To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
2. •
   To travel (a distance) by walking.

   • I walk two miles to school every day.
   • The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
3. •
   To appear in a parade.

   • Those who wish to walk in the parade this fall should sign up now.
4. •
   To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).

   • I walked the streets aimlessly.
   • Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.
5. •
   To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.

   • I walk the dog every morning.
   • Will you walk me home?
6. •
   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. — 1994
7. •
   (informal) To leave, resign.

   • If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
8. •
   (informal) 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.
9. •
   To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
10. •
    To reach base by being pitched four balls.
11. •
    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.
12. •
    To cause something to move in such a way.

    • I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
13. •
    (informal, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.

    • If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
14. •
    To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
15. •
    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.
16. •
    (informal) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
17. •
    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.)
18. •
    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.
19. •
    To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
20. •
    To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
21. •
    To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
22. •
    (historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
23. •
    (no longer used) To be in motion; to act; to move.

    • her toung did walke / In fowle reproch. — 1590

noun15

1. •
   A trip made by walking.

   • I take a walk every morning.
2. •
   A distance walked.

   • 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.
3. •
   A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.

   • The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.
4. •
   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.
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. — 1902
6. •
   In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
7. •
   (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.

   • people of different ages and walks
8. •
   (informal) 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. — 1980
9. •
   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.
10. •
    A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
11. •
    (Caribbean) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.

    • 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 […] — 1803
12. •
    A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
13. •
    (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
14. •
    (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
15. •
    (slang, old-fashioned) 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).

noun1

1. •
   A particular histidine kinase