baseball: to advance to first base by taking four pitches that are balls (see ballentry 1 sense 4a) : to go to first base as a result of a base on balls
: a place or area of land in which animals feed and exercise with minimal restraint
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baseball: an advance to first base awarded to a baseball player who during a turn at bat takes four pitches that are balls (see ballentry 1 sense 4a) : base on balls
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: characteristic manner of walking
his walk is just like his father's
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British: a ceremonial procession
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a
: a low rate of speed
the shortage of raw materials slowed production to a walk
b
: the gait of a biped in which the feet are lifted alternately with one foot not clear of the ground before the other touches
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: the gait of a quadruped in which there are always at least two feet on the ground
specifically: a 4-beat gait of a horse in which the feet strike the ground in the sequence near hind, near fore, off hind, off fore
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: a route regularly traversed by a person in the performance of a particular activity (such as patrolling, begging, or vending)
Verb Is your grandson walking yet? He walks home from school every day. It's not far; you can walk there in five minutes. It was a while after the accident before she could walk again. He walked away without saying goodbye! She turned and walked away from him. The driver walked away from the accident unharmed. They walk around the neighborhood every morning for exercise. We walked around the city all day seeing the sights. He walked to the store. Noun The cliff walk along the ocean is very popular. Many exotic plants can be found along the walk. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
King Charles III, Prince William and Prince Harry walk behind the gun carriage bearing the coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 14, 2022, in London. Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2022 Meghan Markle and Prince Harry walk hand-in-hand at the Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023 - One Year to Go event on Sept. 6 in Germany. People Staff, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022 During the day Lendlease managers walk through the atmospheric Mr. Tipple’s to get to their cubicles on the Market Street side of the building. J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2022 Dozens of kids in the area walk to and from school each day. Pilar Arias | Fox News, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2022 The over-the-top theatrics walk a fine line between a fun, energetic experience and high-level golf. Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022 Travelers walk with their luggage at San Francisco International Airport on July 01, 2022 in San Francisco, California. Pete Muntean, CNN, 29 Aug. 2022 Parents walk outside without shoes to eat ice cream for dinner. Ben Cohen, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022 Girls with flushed cheeks walk through my neighbourhood on their way to dinner; parallel universe projections in pretty dresses. Sarah Grant, SPIN, 19 Aug. 2022
Noun
Chafin walked Yordan Alvarez, who finished 2-for-3 with a walk, to begin his relief appearance. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2022 Clayton Kershaw dazzled over seven scoreless innings, giving up just two hits and one walk while striking out five in his fourth start in a division-clinching game. Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022 On Sunday, the shortstop went 1-for-2 with a walk while driving in the only run of a 1-0 Red Sox victory with a sac fly. Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022 The group allowed no runs on one hit with eight strikeouts and just one walk. Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022 Burnes worked eight innings and did not allow a hit, with one walk, and Josh Hader closed the ninth for the second no-hitter in franchise history. Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022 Gunnar Henderson followed Mountcastle’s double with a walk, then Manoah retired 14 straight Orioles. Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2022 Eddie Rosario led off with a single, advanced to third on Acuña’s ground-rule double and scored on Dansby Swanson’s sacrifice fly. López allowed two runs and five hits with one walk and seven strikeouts in four innings. George Henry, ajc, 4 Sep. 2022 The Mets ace had been dialed in, allowing just one earned run on a first-inning solo home run from Luis Garcia, while striking out six and allowing one walk and three hits. Andrew Tredinnick, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English walken "to roll, toss about (of the sea, waves), wander, journey, go, go on foot, stroll, move about on earth (of a dead person's spirit), be in motion, circulate, be present, live," going back to Old English wealcan (strong verb) and wealcian (weak verb) "to toss about, work with the hands, turn over (in the mind), (of waves or the sea) to roll, surge," going back to Germanic *walkan- (whence also Middle Dutch walken "to knead, full [cloth]," Old High German giwalchen "fulled, thickened," as weak verbs Old Icelandic válka "to roll, stamp," velkja "to toss about"), of uncertain origin
Note: The Middle English verb experienced a remarkable degree of semantic diversification not paralleled in other Germanic languages, taking it far from its Old English sources, and leading to the usual modern meaning "to go by foot"; see detailed discussion of forms and meanings in Oxford English Dictionary, third edition. — The Germanic verb *walkan- has been compared with Sanskrit válgati "(s/he) leaps, bounds, (it) surges," and, more remotely, Latvian val͂gs "rope." However, as pointed out by G. Kroonen (Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, Brill, 2013), there is a parallel verb *walgōn- evident in Middle Dutch walghen (in mi walghet "I feel nauseous"), Middle Low German walgen "to wrestle, strive," Old High German walgōn "to roll." If this etymon goes back to Indo-European *u̯olgh-, it cannot be related to the Sanskrit verb. Both *walkan- and *walgōn- have been seen as representing root extensions of Indo-European *u̯el- "roll"; see welter entry 1.
Noun
Middle English walk, walke, noun derivative of walken "to journey, walk entry 1"