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walk verb (MOVE ON FOOT)
A cat was walking along the top of the fence.
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- walkThe baby has just learned to walk.
- strideShe strode purposefully up to the desk and demanded to speak to the manager.
- marchHe marched right in to the office and demanded to see the governor.
- strollWe strolled along the beach.
- wanderShe wandered from room to room, not sure of what she was looking for.
- ambleShe ambled down the street, looking in shop windows.
a walking disaster, encyclopedia, etc.
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walk verb (FREE TO GO)
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walk verb (LEAVE)
walk verb (SPORTS)
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walk verb (DO EASILY)
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Idioms
Phrasal verbs
a short, five-minute, ten-minute, etc. walk
a short, five-minute, ten-minute, etc. walk away The school is only a five-minute walk away.
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- I went for a walk to try to sober up.
- I always like to take a walk after lunch.
- Shall we brave the snow and go for a walk ?
- It says in the guide that this area of the countryside offers some of the best walks in England.
- He neglects that poor dog - he never takes him for walks or gives him any attention.
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(Definition of walk from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of walk
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I'd walk past a corner and everything was suddenly different.
The empirical evidence shows that for some countries we can reject the hypothesis that exchange rates are random walks.
We state the theorem only for the simple random walk, although it was originally stated for more general (strongly reversible) walks.
We also use the combinatorial method to study random walks on the circle.
His method uses return times of random walks to estimate the size of connected components.
Harmonic functions have an interesting relation to random walks.
In this paper we shall show that this conjecture holds for the branching random walk.
In the case of random walks in convex bodies, we show that this new bound is better than the known bounds for the worst case.
In other words, it increases the steepness of the bowl walls and thereby restricts the random walk more efficiently.
They typically occur at the ends of meetings, often as people are walking out of a room, and even during social breaks.
For a biped motion velocity higher than 1.5 m/s, walking cannot be produced by the chosen actuator, but running is possible.
An irregular catchment area, based on actual travel times, could only be reconstructed by actively walking away from a site in different directions.
The method is based on counting finite self-avoiding walks.
During the day, some ants regularly walked all over inflorescence at all stages and even entered inside open spathes.
A non-motivic, walking bass line provides steady harmonic support for the voice.
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