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walk

UK/wɔːk/ US/woːk/ very common informal slang uk
verb (10) noun (7)

verb

1.

use one''s feet to advance; advance by steps

  • “Walk, don”
  • “;”
  • “;”
  • “;”
  • “;”
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2.

traverse or cover by walking

  • “Walk the tightrope”
  • “Paul walked the streets of Damascus”
  • “She walks 3 miles every day”
3.

accompany or escort

  • “I”
4.

obtain a base on balls

5.

live or behave in a specified manner

  • “walk in sadness”
6.

take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure

  • “The lovers held hands while walking”
  • “We like to walk every Sunday”
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7.

give a base on balls to

8.

be or act in association with

  • “We must walk with our dispossessed brothers and sisters”
  • “Walk with God”
9.

make walk

  • “He walks the horse up the mountain”
  • “Walk the dog twice a day”
10.

walk at a pace

  • “The horsese walked across the meadow”

noun

1.

the act of traveling by foot

  • “walking is a healthy form of exercise”
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2.

(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls

  • “he worked the pitcher for a base on balls”
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3.

manner of walking

  • “he had a funny walk”
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4.

a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative

5.

a path set aside for walking

  • “after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk”
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6.

a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground

7.

careers in general

  • “it happens in all walks of life”
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Origin

From Middle English walk, walke, walken, walkyn, wolken (“to roll, toss, or turn; to walk; to move; to be living; to beat or full; to perform”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move around; to revolve; to roll; to fluctuate; to discuss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse; to roll”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up, twist; to wrinkle”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to roll, toss, turn, wind; to walk, wander, wend; to full, trample”), *walkōną (“to roll about; to full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”). Cognates Cognate with Bavarian woikn (“to full, tan; to knead dough; to roll out dough”), Cimbrian balchan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Dutch zwalken (“to walk around”), German walken (“to full, tan, walk; to knead; to beat up”), Danish valke (“to full, walk, waulk”), Faroese válka (“make dirty; stir up dirt”), Swedish valka (“to full cloth, to waulk”); also Latin valgus (“bent out; bandy, bow-legged”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.

Phrases

  • awe walk
  • cake walk
  • captain's walk
  • cock of the walk
  • coin walk
  • cradle walk
  • crawl before one can walk
  • management by walking about
  • management by walking around
  • walk a mile in someone's shoes
  • walk about
  • walk all over

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