DICT.TW Dictionary Taiwan

 walk /ˈwɔk/
 散步,步行,競走,活動場所(vi.)走路,步行,處世(vt.)走過,使走,走步

 walk
 隨機漫步

 walk
 步行; 通道; 途徑

 walk
 走 走道

 Walk, v. t.
 1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
    As we walk our earthly round.   --Keble.
 2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog.  “ I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.”
 3.  To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.  [Obs. or Scot.]
 4. Sporting To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [Cant]
 5.  To move in a manner likened to walking. [Colloq.]
    She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force.    --C. E. Craddock.
 To walk one's chalks, to make off; take French leave.
 To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion.

 Walk v. i. [imp. & p. p. Walked p. pr. & vb. n. Walking.]
 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
    At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.   --Dan. iv. 29.
    When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.   --Matt. xiv. 29.
 Note: ☞ In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four.
 2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
 3. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
 I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead
 May walk again.   --Shak.
    When was it she last walked?   --Shak.
 4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.  [Obs.] “Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.”
    Do you think I'd walk in any plot?   --B. Jonson.
    I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.   --Latimer.
 5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
    We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.   --Jer. Taylor.
 6. To move off; to depart.  [Obs. or Colloq.]
    He will make their cows and garrans to walk.   --Spenser.
 To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house.
 To walk after the flesh Script., to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. --Rom. viii. 1.
 To walk after the Spirit Script., to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. --Rom. viii. 1.
 To walk by faith Script., to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. --2 Cor. v. 7.
 To walk in darkness Script., to live in ignorance, error, and sin. --1 John i. 6.
 To walk in the flesh Script., to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. --2 Cor. x. 3.
 To walk in the light Script., to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. --1 John i. 7.
 To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest.
 To walk through the fire Script., to be exercised with severe afflictions. --Isa. xliii. 2.
 To walk with God Script., to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.

 Walk, n.
 1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
 2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
 3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
 4. That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
 A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees
 Planted, with walks and bowers.   --Milton.
    He had walk for a hundred sheep.   --Latimer.
 Amid the sound of steps that beat
 The murmuring walks like rain.   --Bryant.
 5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
    The mountains are his walks.   --Sandys.
    He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.   --Pope.
 6. Conduct; course of action; behavior.
 7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.  [Eng.]
 8. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
 9.  Sporting (a) A place for keeping and training puppies. (b) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
 ◄ ►

 walk
      n 1: the act of traveling by foot; "walking is a healthy form of
           exercise" [syn: walking]
      2: (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives
         four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls"
         [syn: base on balls, pass]
      3: manner of walking; "he had a funny walk" [syn: manner of
         walking]
      4: the act of walking somewhere; "he took a walk after lunch"
      5: a path set aside for walking; "after the blizzard he
         shoveled the front walk" [syn: walkway, paseo]
      6: a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the
         ground
      7: careers in general; "it happens in all walks of life" [syn:
         walk of life]
      v 1: use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't
           run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a
           slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over
           to the cabinet" [ant: ride]
      2: traverse or cover by walking; "Walk the tightrope"; "Paul
         walked the streets of Damascus"; "She walks 3 miles every
         day"
      3: accompany or escort; "I'll walk you to your car"
      4: obtain a base on balls
      5: live or behave in a specified manner; "walk in sadness"
      6: take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure; "The lovers
         held hands while walking"; "We like to walk every Sunday"
         [syn: take the air]
      7: give a base on balls to
      8: be or act in association with; "We must walk with our
         dispossessed brothers and sisters"; "Walk with God"
      9: make walk; "He walks the horse up the mountain"; "Walk the
         dog twice a day"
      10: walk at a pace; "The horsese walked across the meadow"