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Walk

verb

(past & past part. walked; pres. part. walking)

1.

Use one's feet to advance; advance by steps. "We walked instead of driving" , "She walks with a slight limp" , "The patient cannot walk yet" , "Walk over to the cabinet"

2.

Accompany or escort.

3.

Obtain a base on balls.

4.

Traverse or cover by walking. "Paul walked the streets of Damascus" , "She walks 3 miles every day"

5.

Give a base on balls to.

6.

Live or behave in a specified manner.

7.

Be or act in association with. "Walk with God"

8.

Walk at a pace.

9.

Make walk. "Walk the dog twice a day"

10.

Take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure. Synonym: take the air. "We like to walk every Sunday"

noun

1.

The act of traveling by foot. Synonym: walking.

2.

(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls. Synonyms: base on balls, pass.

3.

Manner of walking. Synonym: manner of walking.

4.

The act of walking somewhere.

5.

A path set aside for walking. Synonyms: paseo, walkway.

6.

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

7.

Careers in general. Synonym: walk of life.

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"Walk" Quotes from Famous Books

... Blue was now very happy, and his mother was proud and contented and began to improve in health. After a few weeks she became strong enough to leave the cottage and walk a little in the fields each day; but she could not go far, because her limbs were too feeble to support her long, so the most she could attempt was to walk as far as the stile to meet Little Boy Blue as he came home from work in the ...

— Mother Goose in Prose • L. Frank Baum

... overtake some weak or lazy puller, who seems to be moving as slowly as the gait permits. Therewith, instead of bounding by, your man drops immediately behind the slow-going vehicle, and slackens his pace almost to a walk. For half an hour, or more, you may be thus delayed by the regulation which obliges the strong and [402] swift to wait for the weak and slow. An angry appeal is made to the runner who dares to pass another; and the idea behind the words might be thus ...

— Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation • Lafcadio Hearn

... life for fear the third should fall into less tender hands than theirs. For Miss Blanche Lunley was a cripple: disorder of the spine had robbed her, in youth's very bloom, of the power not only to dance, as you girls do, but to walk or even stand upright, leaving her two active little hands, and a heart as nearly angelic as we are likely to see ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... going," Andy remarked, conscientiously. "It's pretty rough; some places, you'd have to walk and ...

— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower

... second point is this: that upon the whole we rather prefer women (nay, even men) to walk upright; so we do not waste much of our noble lives in inventing any other way for them to walk. In short, my second reason for not speculating upon whether woman might get rid of these peculiarities, is that I do not want her to get rid of them; nor ...

— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton

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