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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: walk through vb - (transitive) to act or recite (a part) in a perfunctory manner, as at a first rehearsal
n walk-through - a rehearsal of a part
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024walk /wɔk/USA pronunciation v. - to move on foot at a moderate pace or speed, usually naturally, normally, and without hurry:[no object]He walks to work every day.
- to proceed along, through, or over on foot:[~ + object]walked several miles.
- to cause or help to walk:[~ + object]She walked the old man back to his seat.
- Sport(in baseball) to (cause to) receive a base on balls: [no object]The batter walked, forcing in a run.[~ + object]The pitcher walked the next two batters.
- to lead, drive, or ride at a walk, as an animal:[~ + object]She woke up early to walk the dog.
- to go with or accompany (someone) on foot:[~ + object]I'll walk you to the elevators.
- walk off or away with, [~ + off/away + with + object]
- to steal:Someone walked off with the money.
- to win, esp. with ease:She walked away with the prize for best essay.
- walk out, [no object]
- to go on strike.
- to leave in protest.
- walk out on, [~ + object] to desert;
leave behind; forsake:He walked out on his family. - Show Business walk through:
- Show Business[~ + through + object] to rehearse (a play or the like) by reading the lines out loud while doing the physical movements that are called for.
- , Show Business[~ + through + object] to perform or do (something) in an indifferent manner, in a way that shows that one does not care:During the last two weeks of his job he just walked through his duties.
- [~ + object + through + object] to guide (someone) carefully through a task, procedure, etc.
n. [countable] - an act or instance of walking:a short walk for exercise.
- a characteristic style of walking:a stiff walk.
- a distance walked or to be walked:a ten-minute walk from here.
- Sport[Baseball.] base on balls.
- a place or path for walking.
- a branch of activity, line of work, or position in society:all walks of life.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024walk-through (wôk′thro̅o̅′),USA pronunciation n. - Show Business[Theat., Television.]
- a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play.
- a perfunctory performance of a script.
- Show Business[Television, Motion Pictures.]a rehearsal without cameras.
- a step-by-step demonstration of a procedure or process or a step-by-step explanation of it as a novice attempts it.
- Architecturea pedestrian passageway or arcade through the ground floor of a building connecting one street or building with another.
adj. - designed to be walked through by an observer:The zoo has a walk-through aviary where the birds are all around you.
- activated by a person passing through:a walk-through electronic scanner at the airport for detecting concealed weapons.
- noun, nominal, adjective, adjectival use of verb, verbal phrase walk through 1935–40
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024walk (wôk),USA pronunciation v.i. - to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace;
proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion. - to move about or travel on foot for exercise or pleasure:We can walk in the park after lunch.
- (of things) to move in a manner suggestive of walking, as through repeated vibrations or the effect of alternate expansion and contraction:He typed so hard that the lamp walked right off the desk.
- Sport[Baseball.]to receive a base on balls.
- Slang Terms
- to go on strike;
stage a walkout:The miners will walk unless they get a pay raise. - to be acquitted or to be released or fined rather than sentenced to jail:If the prosecutor doesn't present his case well, the murderer may walk.
- to go about on the earth, or appear to living persons, as a ghost:to believe that spirits walk at night.
- (of a tool, pointer, or pen of a recording device, etc.) to glide, slip, or move from a straight course, fixed position, or the like:A regular drill bit may walk on a plastic surface when you first try to make a hole. When the earthquake started, the pen on the seismograph walked all over the paper.
- to conduct oneself in a particular manner;
pursue a particular course of life:to walk humbly with thy God. - Sport[Basketball.](of a player in possession of the ball) to take more than two steps without dribbling or passing the ball.
- [Obs.]to be in motion or action.
v.t. - to proceed through, over, or upon at a moderate pace on foot:walking London streets by night; walking the floor all night.
- to cause to walk;
lead, drive, or ride at a walk, as an animal:We walked our horses the last quarter of a mile. - to force or help to walk, as a person:They were walking him around the room soon after his operation.
- to conduct or accompany on a walk:He walked them about the park.
- to move (a box, trunk, or other object) in a manner suggestive of walking, as by a rocking motion.
- Sport[Baseball.](of a pitcher) to give a base on balls to (a batter).
- to spend or pass (time) in walking (often fol. by away):We walked the morning away along the beach.
- to cause or accomplish by walking:We saw them walking guard over the chain gang.
- to examine, measure, etc., by traversing on foot:to walk a track; to walk the boundaries of the property.
- [Basketball.]to advance (the ball) by taking more than two steps without dribbling or passing.
- Sport, Informal Terms[Informal.]to send (a person who has a reservation at a hotel) to another hotel because of overbooking:It's exasperating to find yourself walked when you arrive at a hotel late in the evening.
- walk off, to get rid of by walking:to walk off a headache.
- walk off with:
- to remove illegally;
steal. - to win or attain, as in a competition:to walk off with the first prize for flower arrangements.
- to surpass one's competitors;
win easily:to walk off with the fight.
- walk out:
- to go on strike.
- to leave in protest:to walk out of a committee meeting.
- walk out on, to leave unceremoniously;
desert; forsake:to walk out on one's family. - British Terms walk out with, to court or be courted by:Cook is walking out with the chauffeur.
- walk (someone) through, to guide or instruct carefully one step at a time:The teacher will walk the class through the entire testing procedure before the real test begins.
- walk Spanish:
- to be forced by another to walk on tiptoe.
- to walk cautiously.
- to be discharged or dismissed.
- to discharge or dismiss (someone).
- walk the plank. See plank (def. 5).
- walk through, [Theat., Television.]
- Show Businessto release (a play) by combining a reading aloud of the lines with the designated physical movements.
- Show Business[Informal.]to perform (a role, play, etc.) in a perfunctory manner.
- Show Businessto make little or no effort in performing one's role:He didn't like the script and walked through his part.
- Sport walk up, (of a hunter) to flush (game) by approaching noisily on foot and often with hunting dogs.
n. - an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- a period of walking for exercise or pleasure:to go for a walk.
- a distance walked or to be walked, often in terms of the time required:not more than ten minutes' walk from town.
- the gait or pace of a person or an animal that walks.
- a characteristic or individual manner of walking:It was impossible to mistake her walk.
- a department or branch of activity, or a particular line of work:They found every walk of life closed against them.
- Sport[Baseball.]See base on balls.
- a path or way for pedestrians at the side of a street or road;
sidewalk. - a place prepared or set apart for walking.
- a path in a garden or the like.
- a passage between rows of trees.
- an enclosed yard, pen, or the like where domestic animals are fed and left to exercise.
- Sport the walk. See race walking.
- a sheepwalk.
- a ropewalk.
- (in the West Indies) a plantation of trees, esp. coffee trees.
- a group, company, or congregation, esp. of snipes.
- British Terms
- the route of a street vendor, tradesman, or the like.
- the district or area in which such a route is located.
- a tract of forest land under the charge of one forester or keeper.
- [Archaic.]manner of behavior;
conduct; course of life. - [Obs.]a haunt or resort.
- Informal Terms take a walk, to leave, esp. abruptly and without any intention or prospect of returning (often used imperatively to indicate dismissal):If he doesn't get his way, he takes a walk. I don't need your advice, so take a walk.
- bef. 1000; (verb, verbal) Middle English walken, Old English wealcan to roll, toss, gewealcan to go; cognate with Dutch, German walken to full (cloth), Old Norse vālka to toss; (noun, nominal) Middle English, derivative of the verb, verbal
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged step, stride, stroll, saunter, ambulate, perambulate, promenade.
- 32.See corresponding entry in Unabridged stroll, promenade, constitutional.
- 35.See corresponding entry in Unabridged step, carriage.
- 37.See corresponding entry in Unabridged sphere, area, field.
- 39, 40.See corresponding entry in Unabridged passage, footpath, alley, avenue.
- 43.See corresponding entry in Unabridged run.
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