'Walk' definitions:
Definition of 'walk'
From: WordNet
noun
The act of traveling by foot; "walking is a healthy form of exercise" [syn: walk, walking]
noun
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls" [syn: base on balls, walk, pass]
noun
Manner of walking; "he had a funny walk" [syn: walk, manner of walking]
noun
The act of walking somewhere; "he took a walk after lunch"
noun
A path set aside for walking; "after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk" [syn: walk, walkway, paseo]
noun
A slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
noun
Careers in general; "it happens in all walks of life" [syn: walk of life, walk]
verb
Use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet" [ant: ride]
verb
Accompany or escort; "I'll walk you to your car"
verb
Obtain a base on balls
verb
Traverse or cover by walking; "Walk the tightrope"; "Paul walked the streets of Damascus"; "She walks 3 miles every day"
verb
Give a base on balls to
verb
Live or behave in a specified manner; "walk in sadness"
verb
Be or act in association with; "We must walk with our dispossessed brothers and sisters"; "Walk with God"
verb
Walk at a pace; "The horses walked across the meadow"
verb
Make walk; "He walks the horse up the mountain"; "Walk the dog twice a day"
verb
Take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure; "The lovers held hands while walking"; "We like to walk every Sunday" [syn: walk, take the air]
Definition of 'Walk'
From: GCIDE
- Walk \Walk\ (w[add]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Walked; p. pr. & vb. n. Walking.] [OE. walken, probably from AS. wealcan to roll, turn, revolve, akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. v[=a]lka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; but cf. also AS. weallian to roam, ramble, G. wallen. [root]130.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. [1913 Webster]
- At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. --Dan. iv. 29. [1913 Webster]
- When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. --Matt. xiv. 29. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. [1913 Webster]
- I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- When was it she last walked? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] "Her tongue did walk in foul reproach." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Do you think I'd walk in any plot? --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. [1913 Webster]
- We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- He will make their cows and garrans to walk. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house.
- To walk after the flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. --Rom. viii. 1.
- To walk after the Spirit (Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. --Rom. viii. 1.
- To walk by faith (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. --2 Cor. v. 7.
- To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin. --1 John i. 6.
- To walk in the flesh (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. --2 Cor. x. 3.
- To walk in the light (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. --1 John i. 7.
- To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest.
- To walk through the fire (Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions. --Isa. xliii. 2.
- To walk with God (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Walk'
From: GCIDE
- Walk \Walk\, n.
- 1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk. [1913 Webster]
- 4. That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. [1913 Webster]
- A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- He had walk for a hundred sheep. --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
- Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. [1913 Webster]
- The mountains are his walks. --Sandys. [1913 Webster]
- He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Conduct; course of action; behavior. [1913 Webster]
- 7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 8. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 9. (Sporting) (a) A place for keeping and training puppies. (b) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Walk'
From: GCIDE
- Walk \Walk\, v. t.
- 1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. [1913 Webster]
- As we walk our earthly round. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog. " I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding." --Shak. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 3. [AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.] To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [Obs. or Scot.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [Cant] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 5. To move in a manner likened to walking. [Colloq.]
- She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force. --C. E. Craddock.
- To walk one's chalks, to make off; take French leave.
- To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'walk'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agora,
- air lane,
- air race,
- airing,
- alameda,
- ambit,
- amble,
- ambulate,
- amphitheater,
- andante,
- ankle,
- area,
- arena,
- art,
- athletic field,
- auditorium,
- automobile race,
- background,
- bailiwick,
- bear garden,
- beat,
- beaten path,
- beaten track,
- berm,
- bicycle path,
- bicycle race,
- boardwalk,
- boat race,
- border,
- borderland,
- bowl,
- boxing ring,
- bridle path,
- bull ring,
- business,
- calling,
- campus,
- canvas,
- career,
- career building,
- careerism,
- catwalk,
- champaign,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circumambulate,
- circus,
- claudicate,
- claudication,
- cockpit,
- coliseum,
- colosseum,
- constitutional,
- contest of speed,
- course,
- craft,
- crawl,
- creep,
- cross-country race,
- cycle,
- dash,
- dead march,
- demesne,
- department,
- derby,
- discipline,
- dog race,
- dogtrot,
- domain,
- dominion,
- drag,
- drag along,
- drag out,
- drag race,
- droop,
- endurance race,
- esplanade,
- fastwalk,
- field,
- flight path,
- floor,
- flounce,
- foot,
- foot it,
- foot pavement,
- footpace,
- footpath,
- footrace,
- footway,
- forced march,
- forum,
- full circle,
- funeral march,
- gait,
- gallop,
- game,
- garden path,
- go dead slow,
- go slow,
- groove,
- ground,
- gym,
- gymnasium,
- hall,
- handicraft,
- heat,
- hemisphere,
- hike,
- hiking trail,
- hippodrome,
- hitch,
- hobble,
- hoof,
- hoof it,
- hurdle race,
- idle,
- inch,
- inch along,
- itinerary,
- jaunt,
- jaywalk,
- jog,
- jog on,
- jog trot,
- jog-trot,
- judicial circuit,
- jurisdiction,
- lap,
- laze,
- Le Mans,
- leg,
- leg it,
- leisurely gait,
- lifework,
- limp,
- line,
- line of business,
- line of work,
- lists,
- locale,
- lock step,
- loop,
- lumber,
- lumbering pace,
- lurch,
- mall,
- marathon,
- marathon race,
- march,
- marketplace,
- mat,
- match race,
- metier,
- milieu,
- mince,
- mincing steps,
- mission,
- mosey,
- motorcycle race,
- mush,
- mystery,
- number,
- obstacle race,
- occupation,
- open forum,
- orb,
- orbit,
- pace,
- pad,
- paddle,
- palaestra,
- pale,
- parade,
- parade ground,
- path,
- pathway,
- pedestrianize,
- perambulate,
- peripatetic journey,
- peripateticate,
- peripateticism,
- piaffer,
- pit,
- place,
- platform,
- plod,
- poke,
- poke along,
- potato race,
- practice,
- prado,
- prance,
- precinct,
- primrose path,
- prize ring,
- profession,
- promenade,
- province,
- public square,
- public walk,
- purlieu,
- pursuit,
- race,
- rack,
- racket,
- ramble,
- range,
- realm,
- regatta,
- relay,
- relay race,
- revolution,
- ring,
- road,
- road race,
- roll,
- round,
- round trip,
- rounds,
- route,
- run,
- runway,
- rut,
- sack race,
- saunter,
- scene,
- scene of action,
- scenery,
- schlep,
- scuttle,
- sea lane,
- setting,
- shamble,
- shortcut,
- shuffle,
- shuffle along,
- sidewalk,
- sidle,
- single-foot,
- site,
- slink,
- slither,
- slog,
- slouch,
- slow march,
- slow motion,
- slowness,
- specialization,
- specialty,
- speedway race,
- sphere,
- sprint,
- sprint race,
- squared circle,
- stadium,
- stage,
- stage set,
- stage setting,
- stagger,
- stagger along,
- stalk,
- step,
- stock-car race,
- stretch,
- stride,
- stroll,
- strolling gait,
- strut,
- stump,
- stump it,
- subdiscipline,
- swagger,
- swing,
- terrain,
- territory,
- theater,
- three-legged race,
- tilting ground,
- tiltyard,
- toddle,
- toddle along,
- torch race,
- totter,
- totter along,
- tour,
- towing path,
- towpath,
- track,
- track race,
- trade,
- trade route,
- trail,
- traipse,
- traject,
- trajectory,
- trajet,
- tramp,
- tread,
- troop,
- trot,
- trottoir,
- trudge,
- turn,
- velocity,
- vocation,
- waddle,
- walk of life,
- walking tour,
- walkway,
- work,
- worm,
- worm along,
- wrestling ring,
- yacht race
Words containing 'Walk'
- To walk,
- To walk over,
- Walked,
- Walking,
- walk about,
- walk in,
- walk off,
- walk off with,
- walk on,
- walk out,
- walk out of,
- walk over,
- walk through,
- By-walk,
- Cock of the walk,
- Country Walk,
- Night walk,
- Night walking,
- Sheep walk,
- Space walk,
- To walk after the Spirit,
- To walk after the flesh,
- To walk by faith,
- To walk in darkness,
- To walk in the flesh,
- To walk in the light,
- To walk the plank,
- To walk through the fire,
- To walk with God,
- Walk-over,
- Walking beam,
- Walking crane,
- Walking fern,
- Walking fish,
- Walking gentleman,
- Walking lady,
- Walking leaf,
- Walking papers,
- Walking stick,
- Walking ticket,
- Walking wheel,
- Whisper Walk,
- angry walk,
- disability of walking,
- fire walking,
- manner of walking,
- power walking,
- random walk,
- tightrope walking,
- walk around,
- walk away,
- walk of life,
- walk on air,
- walk-in,
- walk-off,
- walk-on,
- walk-through,
- walk-to,
- walk-up,
- walking boss,
- walking delegate,
- walking fishes,
- walking horse,
- walking on air,
- walking shoe,
- walking straw,
- widow's walk,
- Country Walk, FL,
- To walk one's chalks,
- Walk-mill,
- Whisper Walk, FL,
- devil's walking stick,
- plantation walking horse,
- street-walk,
- tennessee walking horse,
- walk-up apartment