WalK
noun1
Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A particular histidine kinase
walk
verbalso spelled WalKUK /wɔːk/ · US /wɔk/
Etymology
From Middle English walk, walke, walken, walkyn, wolken (“to roll, toss, or turn; to walk; to move; to be living; to beat or full; to perform”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move around; to revolve; to roll; to fluctuate; to discuss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse; to roll”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up, twist; to wrinkle”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to roll, toss, turn, wind; to walk, wander, wend; to full, trample”), *walkōną (“to roll about; to full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”). Cognates Cognate with Bavarian woikn (“to full, tan; to knead dough; to roll out dough”), Cimbrian balchan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Dutch zwalken (“to walk around”), German walken (“to full, tan, walk; to knead; to beat up”), Danish valke (“to full, walk, waulk”), Faroese válka (“make dirty; stir up dirt”), Swedish valka (“to full cloth, to waulk”); also Latin valgus (“bent out; bandy, bow-legged”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.
22 senses
- 1To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or…
- 2To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court…
- 3Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- 4To walk off the field, as if given out, after the…
- 5To travel (a distance) by walking.
- 6To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- 7To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- 8To reach base by being pitched four balls.
- 9Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two…
- 10To cause something to move in such a way.
- 11To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- 12To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- 13To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft)…
- 14To leave, resign.
- 15To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- 16To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- 17To go restlessly about; said of things or persons…
- 18To be in motion; to act; to move.
- 19To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training…
- 20To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed…
- 21To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether…
- 22To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
1
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.
- To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
- Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
1 more example
- Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 257:
2
Law Colloquial To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
3
Colloquial, Euphemistic Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
4
Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports 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.
5
To travel (a distance) by walking.
- I walk two miles to school every day.
- The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
1 more example
- Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
6
To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- I walk the dog every morning.
- Will you walk me home?
1 more example
- I will rather trust[…]a thief to walk my ambling gelding.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 47:
7
Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
8
Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Of a batter To reach base by being pitched four balls.
9
Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- If we don't bolt the washing machine down, it's going to walk across the room.
10
To cause something to move in such a way.
- I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
11
To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
12
To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- I walked the streets aimlessly.
- Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.
13
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- Still keeping his tail in the air, Red coaxed the “Airknocker” ahead and as we grasped his struts he slowly retarded the throttle. We walked the plane between two tiedown blocks and not until we had tied the struts did Red cut the switch.1950, Flying Magazine, volume 46, number 3, page 18:
14
Colloquial To leave, resign.
- If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
- He will make their cowes and garrans to walk.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC, page 39:
15
To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- The county had a successful defense only because the judge kept telling the jury at every chance that the cyclist should have walked his bicycle like a pedestrian.1994, John Forester, Bicycle Transportation: A Handbook for Cycling Transportation Engineers, MIT Press, page 245:
16
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us., page 35
17
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.
- October 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached at Stamford, link I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
- There have been reports of cases where, in the event of a girl having died, a man was chosen to go through the marriage ceremony and even have intercourse with the body, before burial, so that she might not "walk".1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 32:
18
Obsolete To be in motion; to act; to move.
- her toung did walke / In fowle reproch.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 233:
- I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead / May walk again.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 288:
1 more example
- Come, doe you thinke, I'ld walke in any plot1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act III:
19
Historical To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
20
Informal To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
21
Engineering, Machining, Mechanical engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Of a tool 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.)
Such as a drill bit or reamer
22
Games, Paintball To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
- Synonyms
- be acquit, get off, go free, be, get stolen, get nick, get pinch, full, waulk, ambulate, pedestrianize, raik
- Antonyms
- run
- Derived terms
77 terms
dogwalk, frog-walk, jack-walk, management by walking about, management by walking around, perp-walk, walk about, walk all over, walk-alone, walk a mile in someone's shoes, walk and chew gum at the same time, walk around, walk around money, walk-around money, walk a straight line, walkathon, walk a tightrope, walk away, walk-away, walk back, walk back the cat, walk down the aisle, Walker, walker, walk good, walkies, walkie-talkie, walk-in, walk in circles, walk in on, walk in someone's shoes, walk in straight lines, walk it, walk it like one talks it, walk it off, walk like an Egyptian, walkman, Walkman, walk-off, walk off the job, walk off with, walk-on, walk on air, walk on broken glass, walk on eggshells, walk one's chalks, walk one's shots, walk-on girl, walk on one's lower lip, walk on sunshine, walk on the wild side, walk on water, walk out on, walk out with, walk-over, walkover, walk softly and carry a big stick, walk Spanish, walk the beat, walk the boards, walk the cat back, walk the chalk, walk the chalk line, walk the chalk mark, walk the dog, walk the floor, walk the gangplank, walk the hospitals, walk the line, walk the plank, walk the streets, walk the talk, walk the walk, walk-through, walk turkey, walk-up, walk with- Related terms
- move slowly, run, way, gait, journey
- Hypernyms
- move
- Hyponyms
76 terms
forwalk, tightrope-walk, walk alone, walk away from, walk away with, walk behind, walk down, walk in, walk into, walk off, walk on, walk on by, walk out, walk over, walk tall, walk through, amble, bolt, canter, circumambulate, crawl, cruise, creep, dash, dawdle, drag, flee, flounce, gambol, hike, hobble, hoof it, hurry, hustle, inch, jog, limp, make off, march, meander, mosey, parade, perambulate, peregrinate, plod, promenade, poke, pussyfoot, ramble, rush, sashay, saunter, shamble, scoot, shin, sidle, skedaddle, skulk, slink, slog, skip, skirr, stomp, stroll, strut, swagger, tiptoe, toddle, traipse, tread, tred, trek, trot, trudge, wade, wander