walk

English

/wɔːk/, /wɔk/, /wɑk/

verb
Definitions
  • (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
  • (intransitive) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
  • (intransitive) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
  • (intransitive) 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.
  • (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
  • (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
  • (transitive) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
  • (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
  • (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
  • (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
  • (transitive) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
  • (intransitive) To leave, resign.
  • (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
  • To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
  • To be stirring; to be abroad; 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.
  • (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
  • (transitive) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
  • (transitive) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English walken (toss, roll, turn, move, revolve) inherited from Old English wealcan (roll, toss, move round, revolve, turn, move around) inherited from Middle English walkien (roll, walk, wallow, stamp) inherited from Old English wealcian (roll up, curl, muffle up) inherited from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (roll, trample, walk, turn, full, roll up, toss) derived from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (turn, twist, move).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*walg-

Gloss

turn, twist, move

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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