'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

Words containing 'Walk'