Definition of "walk"

walk¹

/wɔːk/

verb
third-person singular simple present walks, present participle walking, simple past and past participle walked
1. (intransitive) 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.
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  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.
  1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 16
  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.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 257
2. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
3. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
4. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) 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.
5. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
  Quotations
  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.
  1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 16
6. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
  Quotations
  I will rather trust […] a thief to walk my ambling gelding.
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii], page 47
7. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
8. (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
9. (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
10. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
11. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
12. (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
  Quotations
  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.
  1950, Flying Magazine, volume 46, number 3, page 18
13. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
  Quotations
  He will make their cowes and garrans to walk.
  1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […]; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, page 39
14. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
  Quotations
  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, John Forester, Bicycle Transportation: A Handbook for Cycling Transportation Engineers, MIT Press, page 245
15. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
  Quotations
  We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.
  1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […]
16. To be stirring; to be abroad; 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.
  Quotations
  I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
  October 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached at Stamford, link
  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".
  1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 32
17. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
  Quotations
  her toung did walke / In fowle reproch.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 5, page 233
  I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead / May walk again.
  c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii], page 288
  Do you think I'd walk in any plot?
  1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, (please specify |act=I to V)
18. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
19. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.

walk²

/wɔːk/

noun
plural walks
1. A trip made by walking.
2. A distance walked.
3. (sports) 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.
4. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
5. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
  Quotations
  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, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
6. (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
  Quotations
  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.
  1887, Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, Sir Hall Caine, John Parker Anderson, Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, page 136
7. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
8. (baseball) 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".
9. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
10. (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
  Quotations
  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.
  1755, William Belgrove, A Treatise upon Husbandry or Planting‎, Boston, page 14
  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, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 4, page 80
  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.
  1961, Wilson Harris, The Far Journey of Oudin, Book 2, Chapter 6, in The Guyana Quartet, London: Faber and Faber, 1985, p. 150
  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.
  1995, Olive Senior, “Window”, in Discerner of Hearts‎, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 66
11. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
12. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
13. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
14. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
  Quotations
  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, Robert Barr, The Coming Out Present (episode of Detective, BBC radio drama; around 16 min 20 sec)
15. (UK, finance, slang, dated) 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).

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