walk

1. 1

   To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet: in the case of some non-human animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.intransitive

   • To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
2. 2

   To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.colloquialintransitive

   • If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
3. 3

   Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.colloquialeuphemisticintransitive

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

5. 5

   To travel (a distance) by walking.transitive

   • I walk two miles to school every day.
   • The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
6. 6

   To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.transitive

   • I walk the dog every morning.
   • Will you walk me home?
7. 7

   To appear in a parade.intransitive

   • Those who wish to walk in the parade this fall should sign up now.
8. 8

   To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.transitive

9. 9

   To reach base by being pitched four balls.intransitive

10. 10

    Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.intransitive

    • If we don't bolt the washing machine down, it's going to walk across the room.

syn. get off · go free · ambulate · navigate · pedestrianize · raik

ant. run

1. 1

   A trip made by walking.

   • I take a walk every morning.
   • go on a walk
2. 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. 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. 4

   A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.

   • The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.
5. 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.
6. 6

   A person's conduct or course in life.figuratively

   • people of different ages and walks
7. 7

   A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.

8. 8

   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 two walks in this inning alone.
9. 9

   In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.

10. 10

    An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.BelizeCaribbeanGuyana

    • 1961, Wilson Harris, The Far Journey of Oudin, Book 2, Chapter 6, in The Guyana Quartet, London: Faber and Faber, 1985, p. 150, One day he knew he would build this identical palace for himself. Not next to the road like now—where the presen