walk through meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

walk through

verbalso spelled walk-through

Idiomatic To explain (something) to (someone), step by step.

On my first day at work, the secretary walked me through the process of using the photocopier.

Idiomatic To rehearse (something) casually.

Idiomatic To perform (something) with ease or perfunctorily.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, through.

Derived terms: walkthrough, walk-through
Related terms: pass through, talk through, work through

walk-through

adj

Etymology Deverbal from walk through.

That can be walked through.

Rail transport, Railways, Transport Of passenger carriages in a train, having no doors in gangway connections between the carriages, often in combination with longitudinal seating, creating a "see-through" effect through the train.

The new trains will also be fully 'walk-through', with no carriage end-doors. Travelling on them is like riding on a sinuous, moving corridor. It's less claustrophobic than the old arrangement, but now you can no longer choose the carriage not occupied by the declaiming loony.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 277:
Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather than transverse seating.2023 February 22, Paul Stephen, “TfL reveals first of new B23s for Docklands Light Railway”, in RAIL, number 977, page 12:

Related terms: pass-through, passthrough, run-through, runthrough