English Dictionary

walk

/wɔːk/

verb

(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.

I love to walk in the park every morning.

意味（1）

(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.

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

意味（2）

(intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.

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

意味（3）

(intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.

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

意味（4）

(intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) 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.

意味（5）

(transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.

I walk two miles to school every day.

意味（6）

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

I walk the dog every morning.

意味（7）

(transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.

意味（8）

(transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.

I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.

意味（9）

(transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.

意味（10）

(transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).

I walked the streets aimlessly.

意味（11）

(transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.

Still keeping his tail in the air, Red coaxed the “Airknocker” ahead and as we grasped his struts he slowly retarded the throttle. We walked the plane between two tiedown blocks and not until we had tied the struts did Red cut the switch.

意味（12）

(intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.

If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.

意味（13）

(transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.

The county had a successful defense only because the judge kept telling the jury at every chance that the cyclist should have walked his bicycle like a pedestrian.

意味（14）

To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.

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意味（15）

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.

I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.

意味（16）

(obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.

her toung did walke / In fowle reproch.

意味（17）

(transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.

意味（18）

(transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.