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▸ verb: (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
▸ verb: (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
▸ verb: (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
▸ verb: (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
▸ verb: (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
▸ verb: (transitive) To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
▸ verb: (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
▸ verb: (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
▸ verb: (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
▸ verb: (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
▸ verb: (intransitive) 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.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
▸ verb: (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
▸ verb: (informal, transitive) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
▸ verb: (machining, intransitive, of a tool, such as a drill bit or reamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
▸ noun: A trip made by walking.
▸ noun: A distance walked.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
▸ noun: A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
▸ noun: (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (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".
▸ noun: In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
▸ noun: (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
▸ noun: (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
▸ noun: (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
▸ noun: (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
▸ noun: (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
▸ noun: (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).
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (biochemistry) A particular histidine kinase
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walk of life,
paseo,
pass,
walkway,
base on balls,
manner of walking,
stroll,
saunter,
trudge,
traipse,
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