English Dictionary

walk

/wɔːk/

noun

A trip made by walking. / A distance walked. / (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.

I went for a walk in the park.

意味（1）

A trip made by walking.

I take a walk every morning.

意味（2）

A distance walked.

It’s a long walk from my house to the library.

意味（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.

意味（4）

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

The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.

意味（5）

A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.

Coordinate term: trail

意味（6）

(figuratively) A person's conduct or course in life.

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 his walk in life.

意味（7）

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

意味（8）

(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 two walks in this inning alone.

意味（9）

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

意味（10）

(Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.

Twenty Acres of Land well kept in a Plantain Walk, will afford a very considerable Support, as Plantains are as hearty a Food as Eddoes, and the Plantain Walk may be a Nursery for declining Slaves, as well as to fatten old Cattle when they are past Labour.

意味（11）

(historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.

意味（12）

(historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.

意味（13）

(graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.

意味（14）

(colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

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 a walk! I've been timing it.

意味（15）

(UK, finance, slang, dated) A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).