Definition of "walk"
- verb
To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
(law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
Of an object, to be stolen.
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.
To travel (a distance) by walking.
To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
To leave, resign.
To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- noun
A trip made by walking.
A distance walked.
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.
A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
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".
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