Definitions for walk

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Spelling: [wawk]

IPA: /wɔk/

Walk is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in walk (aklw).

Definitions for walk

noun

1. an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
2. a period of walking for exercise or pleasure:
3. a distance walked or to be walked, often in terms of the time required:
4. the gait or pace of a person or an animal that walks.
5. a characteristic or individual manner of walking:
6. a department or branch of activity, or a particular line of work:
7. Baseball. base on balls.
8. a path or way for pedestrians at the side of a street or road; sidewalk.
9. a place prepared or set apart for walking.
10. a path in a garden or the like.
11. a passage between rows of trees.
12. an enclosed yard, pen, or the like where domestic animals are fed and left to exercise.
13. the walk, race walking.
14. a sheepwalk.
15. a ropewalk.
16. (in the West Indies) a plantation of trees, especially coffee trees.
17. a group, company, or congregation, especially of snipes.
18. British. the route of a street vendor, tradesman, or the like. the district or area in which such a route is located. a tract of forest land under the charge of one forester or keeper.
19. Archaic. manner of behavior; conduct; course of life.
20. Obsolete. a haunt or resort.
21. the sport of rapid, continuous-foot-contact walking, requiring that the trailing foot not be lifted until the other meets the ground and the knee locks momentarily, and executed in an upright, rhythmic stride with the arms usually held bent and high and pumped close to the body.

Idioms

1. take a walk, Informal. to leave, especially abruptly and without any intention or prospect of returning (often used imperatively to indicate dismissal):
2. walk (someone) through, to guide or instruct carefully one step at a time:
3. walk Spanish, to be forced by another to walk on tiptoe. to walk cautiously. to be discharged or dismissed. to discharge or dismiss (someone).
4. walk the plank. plank (def 8).

Verb phrases

1. walk off, to get rid of by walking:
2. walk off with, to remove illegally; steal. to win or attain, as in a competition: to surpass one's competitors; win easily:
3. walk out, to go on strike. to leave in protest:
4. walk out on, to leave unceremoniously; desert; forsake:
5. walk out with, British. to court or be courted by:
6. walk through, Theater, Television. to release (a play) by combining a reading aloud of the lines with the designated physical movements. Informal. to perform (a role, play, etc.) in a perfunctory manner. to make little or no effort in performing one's role:
7. walk up, (of a hunter) to flush (game) by approaching noisily on foot and often with hunting dogs.

verb (used with object)

1. to proceed through, over, or upon at a moderate pace on foot:
2. to cause to walk; lead, drive, or ride at a walk, as an animal:
3. to force or help to walk, as a person:
4. to conduct or accompany on a walk:
5. to move (a box, trunk, or other object) in a manner suggestive of walking, as by a rocking motion.
6. Baseball. (of a pitcher) to give a base on balls to (a batter).
7. to spend or pass (time) in walking (often followed by away):
8. to cause or accomplish by walking:
9. to examine, measure, etc., by traversing on foot:
10. Basketball. to advance (the ball) by taking more than two steps without dribbling or passing.
11. Informal. to send (a person who has a reservation at a hotel) to another hotel because of overbooking:

verb (used without object)

1. to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
2. to move about or travel on foot for exercise or pleasure:
3. (of things) to move in a manner suggestive of walking, as through repeated vibrations or the effect of alternate expansion and contraction:
4. Baseball. to receive a base on balls.
5. Slang. to go on strike; stage a walkout: to be acquitted or to be released or fined rather than sentenced to jail:
6. to go about on the earth, or appear to living persons, as a ghost:
7. (of a tool, pointer, or pen of a recording device, etc.) to glide, slip, or move from a straight course, fixed position, or the like:
8. to conduct oneself in a particular manner; pursue a particular course of life:
9. Basketball. (of a player in possession of the ball) to take more than two steps without dribbling or passing the ball.
10. Obsolete. to be in motion or action.

Origin of walk

before 1000; (v.) Middle English walken, Old English wealcan to roll, toss, gewealcan to go; cognate with Dutch, German walken to full (cloth), Old Norse vālka to toss; (noun) Middle English,

Examples for walk

Creating PGCs from skin tissue, on the other hand, seems like a walk in the park compared to egg freezing.

I had hard work to get them along, and at last they would not walk.

“They just walk around, they ride in their patrol cars, and they just pass by,” he said.

It's nothing for someone to walk up to me in the store or at a restaurant and ask for an autograph or speak to me.

“They know there are drug spots,” said Wanda Williams, who was out for a walk with her son.

"You'll be too proud to walk with your ould mother," said Mrs. Malone.

"I'll walk a bit with you," said his sister, donning her jacket and a cap.

We want [fans] to walk away changed or better or at least entertained by it.

At Percival's suggestion of a walk, Miss Milbrey was delighted.

To the disgust of the latter, Robert actually had the presumption to walk home with Hester.