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English

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A horse walking.

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishwalken(“to move, walk, roll, turn, revolve, toss”), a conflation ofOld Englishwealcan(“to move round, revolve, roll, turn, toss”) (ġewealcan(“to go, traverse”)) andOld Englishwealcian(“to curl, roll up”); both fromProto-West Germanic*walkan, fromProto-Germanic*walkaną,*walkōną(“to twist, turn, roll about, full”), fromProto-Indo-European*walg-(“to twist, turn, move”).

Cognate withScotswalk(“to walk”),Saterland Frisianwalkje(“to full; drum; flex; mill”),West Frisianswalkje(“to wander, roam”),Dutchwalken(“to full, work hair or felt”),Dutchzwalken(“to wander about”),Germanwalken(“to flex, full, mill, drum”),Danishvalke(“to waulk, full”),Latinvalgus(“bandy-legged, bow-legged”),Sanskritवल्गति(válgati,“amble, bound, leap, dance”). More atvagrant andwhelk. Doublet ofwaulk.

Verb

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walk (third-person singular simple presentwalks,present participlewalking,simple past and past participlewalked)

  1. (intransitive) Tomove on thefeet byalternatelysetting eachfoot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet)forward, with at least one foot on theground at all times. Comparerun.
    Towalk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
    • 1892,Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, inThe Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC,page16:
      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.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC,page257:
      Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker whowalks 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.
  2. (intransitive,colloquial,law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly whenactuallyguilty.
    If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going towalk.
  3. (intransitive,colloquial,euphemistic) Of an object, to gomissing or bestolen.
    If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going towalk.
  4. (intransitive,cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as ifgivenout, after thefieldingsideappeals and before theumpire hasruled; done as a matter ofsportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
  5. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
    Iwalk two miles to school every day.
    The museum’s not far from here – you canwalk it.
    • 1892,Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, inThe Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC,page16:
      Athelstan Arundelwalked home all the way, foaming and raging.[…] His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. Hewalked 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.
  6. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
    Iwalk the dog every morning.
    Will youwalk me home?
  7. (transitive,baseball) To allow a batter to reach base bypitching fourballs.
  8. (intransitive,baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
  9. (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move byshifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
    If we don't bolt the washing machine down, it's going towalk across the room.
  10. (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
    I carefullywalked the ladder along the wall.
  11. (transitive) Tofull; tobeat (cloth) to give it the consistency offelt.
  12. (transitive) Totraverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
    Iwalked the streets aimlessly.
    Debugging this computer program involvedwalking the heap.
  13. (transitive,aviation) To operate the left and rightthrottles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
    • 1950,Flying Magazine, volume46, number 3, page18:
      Still keeping his tail in the air, Red coaxed the “Airknocker” ahead and as we grasped his struts he slowly retarded the throttle. Wewalked the plane between two tiedown blocks and not until we had tied the struts did Red cut the switch.
  14. (intransitive,colloquial) To leave, resign.
    If we don't offer him more money he'llwalk.
  15. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
    • 1994, John Forester,Bicycle Transportation: A Handbook for Cycling Transportation Engineers, MIT Press,page245:
      The county had a successful defense only because the judge kept telling the jury at every chance that the cyclist should havewalked his bicycle like a pedestrian.
  16. (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
    • 1651,Jer[emy] Taylor,The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London:[…] Francis Ashe […],→OCLC:
      ,page 35
      Wewalk perversely with God, and he willwalk crookedly toward us.
  17. (intransitive) 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.
    • October 9, 1550,Hugh Latimer,sermon preached at Stamford,link
      I heard a penwalking in the chimney behind the cloth.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed,The Black Art, London: Long, page32:
      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".
  18. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
  19. (transitive,historical) To put, keep, or train (apuppy) in a walk, or training area fordogfighting.
  20. (informal,transitive) To move (a guest) to anotherhotel if theirconfirmedreservation is notavailable on the day ofcheck-in.
  22. (machining,intransitive, of a tool, such as adrill bit orreamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center.Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks intoconcentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when atwist drill walks intoeccentricity.)
Conjugation
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Conjugation ofwalk
infinitive(to)walk
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularwalkwalked
2nd-personsingularwalk,walkest†walked,walkedst†
3rd-personsingularwalks,walketh†walked
pluralwalk
subjunctivewalkwalked
imperativewalk—
participleswalkingwalked
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Descendants
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Translations
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to move on the feet
colloquial: to avoid a criminal court case
colloquial: to be stolen
cricket: to walk off the field voluntarily
to travel a distance by walking
to take for a walk
baseball: to allow to advance after four balls
move something by shifting between two positions
to full cloth
to traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement)
colloquial: to leave, resign
to push vehicle alongside oneself
to behave
to be stirring
to be in motion
to put, keep, or train in a walk
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishwalk,walke,walc, fromOld English*wealc (as inOld Englishwealcspinl) andġewealc(“a rolling motion, attack”), fromProto-Germanic*walką. Cognate withIcelandicválk(“a rolling around, a tossing to and fro, trouble, distress”).

Noun

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walk (pluralwalks)

  1. A trip made by walking.
    I take awalk every morning.
    • 1894, “From Month to Month”, inThe Chronicle of theLondon Missionary Society‎[2], number33, Readers Union,→OCLC,page220:
      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 longwalk from my house to the library.
    The precinct is about ten minutes’walk,straight ahead, so you can’t miss it.
  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.
    The Ministry of SillyWalks is underfunded this year.
  5. A path,sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
    Coordinate term:trail
    • 1902, John Buchan,The Outgoing of the Tide:
      And then it appeared to the young man that he was walking his love up the grasswalk of Heriotside, with the house close by him.
  6. (figurative) A person'sconduct orcourse inlife.
    • 1887, Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, Sir Hall Caine, John Parker Anderson,Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, page136:
      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 hiswalk in life.
  7. (poker) A situation where all playersfold to thebig blind, as their firstaction (instead ofcalling orraising), once they get theircards.
  9. (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".
    The pitcher now has twowalks in this inning alone.
  10. Incoffee,coconut, and otherplantations, the space between them.
  11. (Caribbean,Belize,Guyana,Jamaica) An area of anestate planted with fruit-bearing trees.[1]
    • 1755, William Belgrove,A Treatise upon Husbandry or Planting‎[3], Boston, page14:
      Twenty Acres of Land well kept in a PlantainWalk, will afford a very considerable Support, as Plantains are as hearty a Food asEddoes, and the PlantainWalk may be a Nursery for declining Slaves, as well as to fatten old Cattle when they are past Labour.
    • 1803,Robert Charles Dallas,The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 4,page 80:
      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[…]
    • 1961,Wilson Harris,The Far Journey of Oudin, Book 2, Chapter 6, inThe Guyana Quartet, London: Faber and Faber, 1985, p. 150,[4]
      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 coconutwalk.
    • 1995,Olive Senior, “Window”, inDiscerner of Hearts‎[5], Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page66:
      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 cocoawalk staring at the shutters of Bridget’s room.
  12. (historical) A place for keeping and trainingpuppies fordogfighting.
  13. (historical) Anenclosedarea in which agamecock isconfined to prepare him for fighting.
  14. (graph theory) Asequence of alternatingvertices andedges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Comparepath,trail.
  15. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; awalk in the park.
    • 1980, Robert Barr,The Coming Out Present (episode ofDetective, BBC radio drama; around 16 min 20 sec)
      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 awalk! I've been timing it.
  16. (UK,finance,slang,dated) Acheque drawn on abank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whosesort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
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Hyponyms ofwalk (noun)
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Terms related towalk (noun)
Derived terms
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Translations
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trip made by walking
distance walked
manner of walking
maintained place on which to walk
baseball: instance of walking a batter
graph theory: a sequence of alternating vertices and edges
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References

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  1. ^Lise Winer (ed.),Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, p. 940.[1]

Anagrams

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Manx

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishwaulk.

Verb

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walk (verbal nounwalkalorwalkey,past participlewalkit)

  1. tofull(cloth),waulk,tuck

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Englishġewealc, fromProto-West Germanic*gawalk,*walk, fromProto-Germanic*walką.

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Noun

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walk (uncountable)

  1. turning,tossing
  2. walk,journey
  3. walking,movement
  4. pathway,trail
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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walk

  1. alternative form ofwakien
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Etymology 3

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Verb

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walk

  1. alternative form ofwalken

Polish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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walk f

  1. genitiveplural ofwalka
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