walk : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a stiff or threatening gait
  stalk.
  

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By"-walk` noun

Definitions

1. secluded or private walk.

   He moves afterward in by-walks. Dryden.

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• a chief or master; the hero of the hour; one who has overcrowed, or got the better of, rivals or competitors.

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• noun small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States
  Aralia spinosa; Hercules'-club; American angelica tree.
  

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• noun a disability that interferes with or prevents walking
  

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• noun the ceremony of walking barefoot over hot stones or a bed of embers
  

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• noun manner of walking
  walk.
  
  • he had a funny walk

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• a walk in the evening or night.

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• . (a) Walking in one's sleep; somnambulism; noctambulism. (b) Walking the streets at night with evil designs .

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• noun a horse marked by stamina and trained to move at a fast running walk
  Plantation walking horse; Tennessee walker; Tennessee walking horse.
  

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• noun a form of cardiopulmonary exercise consisting of rapid walking accompanied by vigorous swinging of the arms
  

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• noun a stochastic process consisting of a sequence of changes each of whose characteristics (as magnitude or direction) is determined by chance
  

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• a pasture for sheep; a sheep run.

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• noun any kind of physical activity outside a spacecraft by one of the crew
  

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• verb walk the streets in search of customers
  streetwalk.
  
  • The prostitute is street-walking every night

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• noun a horse marked by stamina and trained to move at a fast running walk
  Plantation walking horse; Tennessee walker; Tennessee walking horse.
  

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• noun walking on a tightrope or slack rope
  funambulism.
  

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• to go with the arm or hand of one linked in the arm of another. "When arm in armwe went along." Tennyson.

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• in, to go in; to enter, as into a house.

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• (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Rom. viii. 1.

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• (Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. Rom. viii. 1.

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• (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Cor. v. 7.

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• (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin. 1 John i. 6.

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• (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Cor. x. 3.

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• (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John i. 7.

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• in racing, to go over a course at a walk; said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest. = to win in a walk.

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• to walk along a plank laid across the bulwark of a ship, until one overbalances it and falls into the sea; a method of disposing of captives practiced by pirates.
• to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. Bartlett.

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• (Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isa. xliii. 2.

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• (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.

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• verb walk with no particular goal
  walk about; perambulate.
  
  • we were walking around in the garden
  • after breakfast, she walked about in the park

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• verb walk with no particular goal
  walk about; perambulate.
  
  • we were walking around in the garden
  • after breakfast, she walked about in the park
• verb walk around something
  circumambulate.
  
• verb behave in a certain manner or have certain properties
  
  • He walks around with his nose in the air
  • She walks around with this strange boyfriend
• verb walk randomly
  
  • We were walking around in the neighborhood to see whether we could find an open drugstore

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• verb go away from
  walk away.
  
  • The actor walked off before he got his cue
  • I got annoyed and just walked off

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• verb enter by walking
  
  • She walks in at all hours, as if she lived here

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• noun careers in general
  walk.
  
  • it happens in all walks of life

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• verb take without permission
  
  • he walked off with my wife!
  • The thief walked off with my gold watch
• verb go away from
  walk away.
  
  • The actor walked off before he got his cue
  • I got annoyed and just walked off

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• verb feel extreme happiness or elation
  be on cloud nine; exult; jump for joy.
  

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• verb stop work in order to press demands
  strike.
  
  • The auto workers are striking for higher wages
  • The employees walked out when their demand for better benefits was not met
• verb leave abruptly, often in protest or anger
  
  • The customer that was not served walked out
• verb leave suddenly, often as an expression of disapproval
  
  • She walked out on her husband and children

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• verb leave, usually as an expression of disapproval
  

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• verb beat easily
  
  • The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship

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• verb perform in a perfunctory way, as for a first rehearsal
  

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• noun person who walks in without having an appointment
  
  • the emergency room was overrun with walk-ins
• noun an operative who initiates his own defection (usually to a hostile country) for political asylum
  
• noun an assured victory (especially in an election)
  waltz.
  
• noun a small room large enough to admit entrance
  
• adjective satellite (of e.g. closets or refrigerators) extending very far enough back to allow a person to enter
  
  • a deep walk-in refrigerator
  • walk-in closets

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Walk"-mill` noun

Etymology

Walk to Walking Leaf, or full + mill.

Definitions

1. A fulling mill. Prov. Eng. Halliwell.

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• noun plays a small part in a dramatic production
  
• adjective not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines
  nonspeaking.
  
  • had a nonspeaking role in the play

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Walk"-o`ver noun

Definitions

1. In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory. = a walk; a cake-walk.

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• noun a thorough explanation (usually accompanied by a demonstration) of each step in a procedure or process
  
  • she gave me a walk-through of my new duties
• noun a pedestrian passageway through the ground floor of a building
  
• noun a first perfunctory rehearsal of a theatrical production in which actors read their lines from the script and move as directed
  
• noun the act of walking in order to view something
  
  • the realtor took her on a walk-through of the apartment

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• adjective satellite close enough to be walked to
  walking.
  
  • walking distance
  • the factory with the big parking lot...is more convenient than the walk-to factory

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• noun an apartment in a building without an elevator
  walk-up.
  
• noun an apartment building without an elevator
  
• adjective satellite a building with no elevator
  
  • a walk-up apartment

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• noun an apartment in a building without an elevator
  walk-up.
  

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• noun a union representative who visits workers at their jobs to see whether agreements are observed
  

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• noun ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip
  Asplenium rhizophyllum; Camptosorus rhizophyllus; walking fern.
  

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• noun a horse marked by stamina and trained to move at a fast running walk
  Plantation walking horse; Tennessee walker; Tennessee walking horse.
  

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• noun ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip
  Asplenium rhizophyllum; Camptosorus rhizophyllus; walking fern.
  
• noun tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body; common in southern Asia and the East Indies
  leaf insect.
  

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• noun a state of extreme happiness
  cloud nine; blissfulness; bliss; seventh heaven.
  

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• noun (informal) a notice of dismissal or discharge
  marching orders.
  

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• noun a light comfortable shoe designed for vigorous walking
  

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• noun a stick carried in the hand for support in walking
  
• noun any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies
  stick insect; walkingstick.
  

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• noun a lookout atop a coastal house
  

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