WALK | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of walk in English walkverb uk /wɔːk/ us /wɑːk/

walk verb (MOVE ON FOOT)

Add to word list Add to word list A1 [ I or T ] to move along by putting one foot in front of the other, allowing each foot to touch the ground before lifting the next: I walked home. A cat was walking along the top of the fence. He walks two miles to work every morning. See also jaywalk mainly US sleepwalk to walk

• walkThe baby has just learned to walk.
• strideShe strode purposefully up to the desk and demanded to speak to the manager.
• marchHe marched right in to the office and demanded to see the governor.
• strollWe strolled along the beach.
• wanderShe wandered from room to room, not sure of what she was looking for.
• ambleShe ambled down the street, looking in shop windows.

See more results » B1 [ T ] to go with someone to a particular place, for example because you want to protect them from danger, or show them the way: walk someone to something He offered to walk her home/to the station. B1 [ T ] to take an animal, especially a dog, for a walk: She walks the dog for an hour every afternoon.  a walking disaster, encyclopedia, etc. someone who seems to be a human form of disaster, encyclopedia, etc.: You broke another pair of glasses? You're just a walking disaster! See more

• We'd better walk a bit quicker - it's going to take forever if we go at this pace.
• We walked along the beach collecting small crabs in a bucket.
• He walks with a limp.
• We were just walking along, chatting.
• I walked backwards towards the door.

Walking and walkers

• bring/call something/someone to heel idiom
• cavalcade
• constitutional
• follow a path
• foot traffic
• go for a walk
• processional
• processionally
• race walking
• rambler
• rambling
• retread
• shanks's pony
• tramp
• tread
• trek
• trekking
• trekking pole
• turnaround time
• walkable

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Taking someone somewhere or telling them the way

walk verb (FREE TO GO)

[ I ] to not be charged with a crime, or to be allowed to leave a court after being found not guilty of a crime: If police don't get the right evidence, he'll walk. Court cases, orders & decisions

• actionable
• actionably
• actual damages
• administer
• admissibility
• extrajudicial
• extrajudicially
• fatal accident inquiry
• federal case
• finding
• pettifogging
• plea bargain
• plea bargaining
• pleading
• post bail
• valuable consideration
• verdict
• void
• voidable
• voluntary departure

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Freedom to act

walk verb (LEAVE)

[ I ] to suddenly leave a job or other situation because you have not been given what you want: Pay essential workers $650 a week or we walk. "Get real or we walk" UK warns Brussels as Brexit trade deal talks resume. You give me twenty percent discount on the price or I walk. Departing

• abandon
• abandon ship
• abandon/jump ship idiom
• abandonment
• absquatulate
• dead
• gone
• make tracks idiom
• make yourself scarce idiom
• move
• not see someone for dust idiom
• offski
• outgoing
• pull something off phrasal verb
• sea
• spill
• spill out phrasal verb
• strike out (somewhere) phrasal verb
• take something off phrasal verb
• turf something out phrasal verb

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walk verb (SPORTS)

[ I ]   sports   specialized In cricket, if a batter (= the player who tries to hit the ball) walks, they choose to leave the field without waiting for the umpire (= the person who makes certain that the rules are obeyed) to make a decision about whether they are out (= their turn to bat is finished): He nicked an outswinger to the keeper and walked without waiting for the umpire to lift his finger. The batter refused to walk, even though all the fielders knew that he had hit it. [ I or T ]   sports   specialized in baseball, to receive four balls outside the hitting area and be allowed to go to first base, or to throw the ball outside the hitting area four times so that the batter is allowed to go to first base: The first batters either missed or walked. He would have had a perfect game, except he walked a batter in the final inning. Cricket

• 12th man
• all out
• all-rounder
• arm ball
• asking rate
• batting
• declaration
• eleven
• hook
• infield
• jaffa
• king pair
• late cut
• leg break
• square leg
• stonewall
• strike rate
• sundries
• switch hit
• tail

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Baseball & rounders

walk verb (DO EASILY)

[ T ] UK informal to pass or win something, such as an exam or game, easily: She'll walk the interview - the job is practically hers already. Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling

• A game
• accomplish
• achieve
• acquit
• actualize
• bear
• carry
• get (something) off the ground idiom
• get ahead phrasal verb
• get away with something phrasal verb
• get in/get into something phrasal verb
• get off on the right/wrong foot idiom
• pan
• punch above your weight idiom
• re-attain
• reach the heights of something
• ride, drive, walk, etc. (off) into the sunset idiom
• romp through something phrasal verb
• stick
• storm

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See also

walk/be on eggshells

Idioms

walk all over someone walk free walk it walk on air walk on water walk right into something walk the walk

Phrasal verbs

walk away walk away with something walk back something walk in on someone walk into something walk off (somewhere) walk something off walk off with something walk out walk through something walk someone through something walknoun uk /wɔːk/ us /wɑːk/ A2 [ C ] a journey that you make by walking, often for enjoyment: go for a walk He went for a walk around the block to get some air.take a walk Gentle exercise, like taking short walks, can give you more energy. go on a walk They went on a ten-mile walk to raise money for charity.take someone/something for a walk Every afternoon she takes her grandfather out for a walk. See also boardwalk US catwalk crosswalk US sidewalk US spacewalk C1 [ C ] a path or route where people can walk for enjoyment: Do you know any nice walks around here? [ S ] a way of walking: He has a strange waddling sort of walk. [ S ] walking speed: She slowed the horses to a walk.  a short, five-minute, ten-minute, etc. walk a journey that takes a short time, five minutes, ten minutes, etc. when you walk: a short, five-minute, ten-minute, etc. walk away The school is only a five-minute walk away. See more [ C ] in baseball, an occasion when a batter is allowed to go to first base after the pitcher has thrown the ball outside the hitting area four times

• I went for a walk to try to sober up.
• I always like to take a walk after lunch.
• Shall we brave the snow and go for a walk ?
• It says in the guide that this area of the countryside offers some of the best walks in England.
• He neglects that poor dog - he never takes him for walks or gives him any attention.

Walking and walkers

• bring/call something/someone to heel idiom
• cavalcade
• constitutional
• follow a path
• foot traffic
• go for a walk
• processional
• processionally
• race walking
• rambler
• rambling
• retread
• shanks's pony
• tramp
• tread
• trek
• trekking
• trekking pole
• turnaround time
• walkable

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Baseball & rounders

Idioms

a walk in the park walk of life (Definition of walk from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

walk | American Dictionary

walkverb [ I/T ] us /wɔk/ Add to word list Add to word list to move along by putting one foot in front of the other, or to move a distance in this way: [ I ] I walked home. [ I ] We just walked past a famous actress. [ I ] They walked all around Chinatown. [ I ] I walk to work every morning. [ T ] It’s not that far – you can walk it in half an hour. [ T ] We must have walked miles today. To walk someone to a particular place is to walk with the person until the place has been reached: [ T ] He offered to walk her home. To walk an animal, esp. a dog, is to bring it outside with you to walk.

Idiom

walk the walk

Phrasal verbs

walk all over someone walk away/off with something walk off with something walk out walk out on someone/something walk (someone) through something walknoun [ C ] us /wɔk/ an act of moving along by putting one foot in front of the other, or moving a distance in this, esp. for pleasure or exercise: He went for/took a walk around the block.

Idiom

walks of life (Definition of walk from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

walk | Business English

walkverb [ I or T ] uk /wɔːk/ us  walk all over sb informal Add to word list Add to word list to treat someone badly: The unions accused management of walking all over their staff.  walk off the job US to stop working because you are angry or unhappy about something: Autoworkers walked off the job after the unions failed to reach an agreement over pay.  walk the plank informal to be forced to leave your job because of something bad you have done: The expenses scandal gave several ministers no option but to walk the plank.  walk the talk informal to do the things you have said you would do, especially when you reach a position of power: Business groups are waiting to see if the incoming Governor will walk the talk on promises to boost the state's economy. Compare talk the talk  walk the walk informal to do the things you have planned and promised to do: The country has yet to see whether the new leader can walk the walk. Compare talk the talk

Phrasal verbs

walk into sth walk out walk out on sth walknoun [ C ] uk /wɔːk/ us   walk of life used to refer to the job you do or the part of society you belong to: We employ people from all walks of life. (Definition of walk from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of walk

walk I'd walk past a corner and everything was suddenly different. From the Cambridge English Corpus The empirical evidence shows that for some countries we can reject the hypothesis that exchange rates are random walks. From the Cambridge English Corpus We state the theorem only for the simple random walk, although it was originally stated for more general (strongly reversible) walks. From the Cambridge English Corpus We also use the combinatorial method to study random walks on the circle. From the Cambridge English Corpus His method uses return times of random walks to estimate the size of connected components. From the Cambridge English Corpus Harmonic functions have an interesting relation to random walks. From the Cambridge English Corpus In this paper we shall show that this conjecture holds for the branching random walk. From the Cambridge English Corpus In the case of random walks in convex bodies, we show that this new bound is better than the known bounds for the worst case. From the Cambridge English Corpus In other words, it increases the steepness of the bowl walls and thereby restricts the random walk more efficiently. From the Cambridge English Corpus They typically occur at the ends of meetings, often as people are walking out of a room, and even during social breaks. From the Cambridge English Corpus For a biped motion velocity higher than 1.5 m/s, walking cannot be produced by the chosen actuator, but running is possible. From the Cambridge English Corpus An irregular catchment area, based on actual travel times, could only be reconstructed by actively walking away from a site in different directions. From the Cambridge English Corpus The method is based on counting finite self-avoiding walks. From the Cambridge English Corpus During the day, some ants regularly walked all over inflorescence at all stages and even entered inside open spathes. From the Cambridge English Corpus A non-motivic, walking bass line provides steady harmonic support for the voice. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of walk These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of walk?

Translations of walk

in Chinese (Traditional) 行走, 走，步行，行走, 陪（某人）走… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 行走, 走，步行，行走, 陪（某人）走… See more in Spanish caminar, andar, pasear… See more in Portuguese andar, caminhar, passeaer… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian चालणे, फेरी, चालण्याची रीत… See more 歩く, 散歩, 歩（ある）く… See more yürümek, yürüyüş, gezinti… See more marcher, aller/faire à pied, (r)accompagner… See more caminar, passeig… See more lopen, wandelen, wandeling… See more ஒரு அடி மற்றொன்றுக்கு முன்னால் வைப்பதன் மூலம் செல்ல, ஒவ்வொரு பாதமும் அடுத்ததைத் தூக்குவதற்கு முன்பு தரையைத் தொட அனுமதிக்கிறது, ஒரு பயணம் நடைபயிற்சி மூலம் நீங்கள் செய்வது… See more टहलना, चलना, धीरे-धीरे चलना… See more ચાલવું, પગે ચાલવું, પગરસ્તો… See more gå, gå tur med, vandre… See more gå, promenera, vandra… See more berjalan, membawa berjalan-jalan, berjalan-jalan… See more gehen (mit), wandern, entlanggehen… See more gå, følge, spasertur [masculine]… See more چلنا, قدم بڑھانا, تفریحاً ٹہلنا… See more ходити, виводити на прогулянку, гуляти… See more నడవడం, నడిచే చోటు, నడక… See more হাঁটা / পায়চারি, পদব্রজে ভ্রমণ / হাঁটতে যাওয়া, পদচারণা / হাঁটা… See more jít, vodit, procházet se… See more berjalan, berjalan-jalan, untuk dijalani… See more เดิน, ท่องเที่ยวด้วยการเดินเท้า, เดินทางด้วยเท้า… See more đi bộ, đi dạo, đi lang thang… See more chodzić, spacer, szlak… See more 걷다, 산책… See more camminare, andare a piedi, passeggiare… See more Need a translator?

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• walk-in
• walk-in noun, at walk-in
• walk-on part
• walk-on
• walk-up
• walk-off
• perp walk

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• walk all over someone phrasal verb
• walk away/off with something phrasal verb
• walk off with something phrasal verb
• walk out on someone/something phrasal verb
• walk out phrasal verb
• walk (someone) through something phrasal verb
• walk off (somewhere) phrasal verb

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• walk the walk idiom
• walks of life idiom
• walk it idiom
• stand/walk tall idiom
• walk free idiom
• walk on air idiom
• take a walk! idiom

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  • Verb 
    • walk (MOVE ON FOOT)
    • a walking disaster, encyclopedia, etc.
    • walk (FREE TO GO)
    • walk (LEAVE)
    • walk (SPORTS)
    • walk (DO EASILY)
  • Noun 
    • walk
    • a short, five-minute, ten-minute, etc. walk
• American   VerbNoun
• Business   
  • Verb 
    • walk
    • walk all over sb
    • walk off the job
    • walk the plank
    • walk the talk
    • walk the walk
  • Noun 
    • walk of life
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