Word Finder - walks

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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.

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To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.

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To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.

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If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.

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Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.

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If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.

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(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.

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To travel (a distance) by walking.

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I walk two miles to school every day.  The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.

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To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.

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I walk the dog every morning.  Will you walk me home?

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To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.

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To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.

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I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.

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To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.

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To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).

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I walked the streets aimlessly.   Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.

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To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.

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To leave, resign.

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If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.

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To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.

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To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.

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To be stirring; to be abroad; 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.

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To be in motion; to act; to move.

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To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.

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(hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.

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A trip made by walking.

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I take a walk every morning

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A distance walked.

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It’s a long walk from my house to the library

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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.

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A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.

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The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year

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A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.

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A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.

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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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The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone

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In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.

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(Belize) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.

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A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.

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An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.

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A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.

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Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

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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).

The side walks are very narrow, and the gas lamps are attached to the walls of the buildings.

We have begun to take long walks every morning, immediately after breakfast.

The surface of the walks should be kept well rolled, for nothing contributes more to their elegance and durability.

Grass walks are made in the same way as grass lawns.

The best material for the construction of garden walks is good binding gravel.

I miss my house though... and my walks in the hills.

The First Consul, on the other hand, sought to recognize and reward merit in all walks of life.

All the principal lines of walk should be broad enough to allow at least three persons to walk abreast; the others may be narrower, but a multitude of narrow walks has a puny effect.

Gods know I've done stupid shit in my life and seen people from all walks of life.

His account, drawn up from notes taken in the main from personal observation, possesses an especial importance for topographical research, owing to his method of describing each object in the order in which he saw it during the course of his walks.

This union, however, is influenced by the deeds of the man and by the ways in which he walks.

He retained his old university habit of taking long walks with a congenial companion, even in London, and although he cared but little for what is commonly known as society - the society of crowded rooms and fragments of sentences - he very much liked conversation.

In spite, therefore, of the encyclopaedic tradition which has persisted from Aristotle through the Arab and medieval schools down to Herbert Spencer, it is forced upon us in our own day that in a pursuit so manysided as medicine, whether in its scientific or in its practical aspect, we have to submit more and more to that division of labour which has been a condition of advance in all other walks of life.

Moorfields was drained and laid out in walks in Elizabeth's reign.

Ben Jonson places one of the scenes of Every Man in his Humour in Moorfields, which at the time he wrote the play had, as stated above, lately been drained and laid out in walks.

In a fragment of autobiography printed in the Athenaeum (12th of January 1850) he says that he was entirely self-taught, and attributes his poetic development to long country walks undertaken in search of wild flowers, and to a collection of books, including the works of Young, Barrow, Shenstone and Milton, bequeathed to his father by a poor clergyman.

But defiled thou hast walked in this temple, which is a pure place, wherein no other man walks except he has washed himself and changed his garments neither does he venture to see these holy vessels.

It is kept clean and cool by the waters of the river, which flow through the streets in open channels; and its old fortifications have been replaced by public walks, and, what is more unusual, by vineyards.

Gravel walks must be kept free from weeds, either by hand weeding, or by the use of one of the many weed killers now on the market.

In some parts of the country the available material does not bind to form a close, even surface, and such walks are kept clean by hoeing.

Grass walks were common in English gardens during the prevalence of the Dutch taste, but, owing to the frequent humidity of the climate, they have in a great measure been discarded.

The conservatory may also with great propriety be placed in the flower garden, where it may occupy an elevated terrace, and form the termination of one of the more important walks.

Attend to the dressing of shrubberies; lay turf-edgings, and regulate the surface of gravel walks.

A peculiarity of Guayaquil is that the upper floors in the business streets project over the walks, forming covered arcades.

As a student, his elderly appearance gained him the title " Old man," but he took part in the walks, beer-drinking and love-making of his fellows.

Above the firs come the tamarack, constituting the bulk of the lower Alpine forest; the hardy long-lived mountain pine; the red cedar or juniper, growing even on the baldest rocks; the beautiful hemlock spruce; the still higher white pine, nut pine, needle pine; and finally, at io,000 to 12,000 ft., the dwarf pine, which grows in a tangle on the earth over which one walks, and may not show for a century's growth more than a foot of height or an inch of girth.

At Meran walks have been arranged according to Oertel's system, and at Llangammarch in Wales both Oertel's and Schott's systems are employed, and baths according to the Nauheim system are also to be found in London, Sidmouth, Leamington, Buxton, Strathpeffer, &c. Many people who have sedentary employments are unable to get as much exercise as they require because they have not either the time or the opportunity.

That which is perhaps the more common consists of walks, or alleys as they FIG.

The walks are about half a mile in length, and the ground occupied is a little over a quarter of an acre.

Walks and gardens now surround the town in the place of the old city walls, but a few towers and gateways adorned with various old coats of arms are still standing.

Since the French conquest in 1895 good roads have been constructed throughout the city, broad flights of steps connect places too steep for the formation of carriage roads, and the central space, called Andohalo, has become a handsome place, with walks and terraces, flower-beds and trees.

An urban council may acquire and maintain lands for the purpose of being used as public walks or pleasure-grounds, and may support or contribute to the support of such walks or grounds if Public provided by any other person.

The Public Improvement Act, when adopted, enables a parish council to purchase or lease, or accept gifts of land for the purpose of forming public walks, exercise or play grounds, and ublic to provide for the expense by means of a parish improve- Improve- ment rate.

It is surrounded by beautiful walks and fine gardens, and although its old walls and towers have now been demolished, many of its ancient buildings remain to form a picturesque contrast with the signs of modern industry.

This, tainting the herbage or stones over which the animal walks, affords the means by which, through the powerfully developed sense of smell, the neighbourhood of other individuals of the species is recognized.

From each end of the house a curved colonnade and a pavement lead westerly to a row of out-buildings which partially enclose a bowling green and spacious lawn with shaded drives and walks, and beautiful gardens (with trees planted by Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lafayette and others).

Flint gravels are widely employed for dressing walks and roads, and for rough-cast work in architecture.

He also made great progress in the art of wood-engraving, and with the money he received for a series of blocks Lfor a work called Walks about Dorchester, he printed and published his first book, Orra, a Lapland Tale, in 1822.

At last Oedipus guessed correctly that it was man; for the child crawls on hands and feet, the adult walks upright, and the old man supports his steps with a stick.

The former range, on the west, runs nearly due north from Grantham to Lincoln, and thence to the Humber, traversing the Heaths of Lincolnshire, which were formerly open moors, rabbit warrens and sheep walks, but are now enclosed and brought into high cultivation.

Gilbert White's daily life was practically unbroken by any great changes or incidents; for nearly half a century his pastoral duties, his watchful country walks, the assiduous care of his garden, and the scrupulous posting of his calendar of observations made up the essentials of a full and delightful life, but hardly of a biography.

It has mineral springs, and the industries comprise fisheries, ironworks and foundries, sulphur furnaces, silkmills, rope walks, match factories, brickworks, flourmills and furniture.

The 4 Marys withdraw as Darnley joins Mary, walks down the center, he showing arrogance, she displeasure.

There are even rumors that King Richard III still walks the battlements.

I still aim to do all of one Mr Wainwright's walks and here retirement beckons with a joyful hand.

A quick browse through the walks may already give some visual pointers.

A Red Indian chief, with full Feather headdress, walks out of His wigwam, and fires an Arrow at the moon.

He walks about them like a colossus, while little men walk under him and understand him not.

Everyone present at the wedding ceremony walks up to the front to congratulate the newly married couple.

Enjoy spectacular coastal walks or explore the sandy bays, smugglers ' coves, rocky pools and cliffs.