walk

UK /woːk/ US /wɔːk/
noun 6verb 5name 1

Definitions

verb

1

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.

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.

2

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.

3

Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.

If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.

4

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

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.

noun

1

A trip made by walking.

I take a walk every morning.

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.

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

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.

The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.

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.

name

1

A surname.

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