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walk
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: wôk, IPA(key): /w??k/
- (US) enPR: wôk, IPA(key): /w?k/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: wäk, IPA(key): /w?k/
- Rhymes: -??k
- Homophone: wok (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English walken (“to move, roll, turn, revolve, toss”), from Old English wealcan (“to move round, revolve, roll, turn, toss”), ?ewealcan (“to go, traverse”); and Middle English walkien (“to roll, stamp, walk, wallow”), from Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up”); both from Proto-Germanic *walkan?, *walk?n? (“to twist, turn, roll about, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”). Cognate with Scots walk (“to walk”), Saterland Frisian walkje (“to full; drum; flex; mill”), West Frisian swalkje (“to wander, roam”), Dutch walken (“to full, work hair or felt”), Dutch zwalken (“to wander about”), German walken (“to flex, full, mill, drum”), Danish valke (“to waulk, full”), Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged”), Sanskrit ?????? (valgati, “amble, bound, leap, dance”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.
Verb
walk (third-person singular simple present walks, present participle walking, simple past and past participle walked)
- (intransitive) 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.
- (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- (intransitive, cricket, 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.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
- (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- 1950, Flying Magazine (volume 46, number 3, page 18)
- 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)
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- 1994, John Forester, Bicycle Transportation: A Handbook for Cycling Transportation Engineers, MIT Press, p.245:
- 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, p.245:
- To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, page 35
- We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, page 35
- 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.
- October 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached at Stamford, link
- I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
- October 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached at Stamford, link
- (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
- , link
- Do you think I'd walk in any plot?
- , link
- (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (move upon two feet): See Thesaurus:walk
- (colloquial: go free): be acquitted, get off, go free
- (be stolen): be/get stolen; (British) be/get nicked, be/get pinched
- (beat cloth): full, waulk (obsolete)
Antonyms
- run
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Chinese Pidgin English: walkee
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English walk, walke, walc, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ?ewealc (“a rolling motion, attack”), from Proto-Germanic *walk?. Cognate with Icelandic válk (“a rolling around, a tossing to and fro, trouble, distress”).
Noun
walk (plural walks)
- A trip made by walking.
- A distance walked.
- (sports) 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.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
- (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- (baseball) 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".
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaican) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- 1755, William Belgrove, A Treatise upon Husbandry or Planting, Boston, p. 14,[2]
- Twenty Acres of Land well kept in a Plantain Walk, will afford a very considerable Support, as Plantains are as hearty a Food as Eddoes, and the Plantain Walk may be a Nursery for declining Slaves, as well as to fatten old Cattle when they are past Labour.
- 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 4, page 80,
- For half a mile from Vaughansfield the road, now a mere track, leads through pastures and a coffee-walk to the foot of a very steep hill […]
- 1961, Wilson Harris, The Far Journey of Oudin, Book 2, Chapter 6, in The Guyana Quartet, London: Faber and Faber, 1985, p. 150,[3]
- One day he knew he would build this identical palace for himself. Not next to the road like now—where the present cottage was—but half a mile inside the coconut walk.
- 1995, Olive Senior, “Window” in Discerner of Hearts, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, p. 66,[4]
- He couldn’t sleep and took to walking outside at night, to look at the stars, to feel the cool air, and for a long time wasn’t even conscious that he always ended up standing in the darkness of the cocoa walk staring at the shutters of Bridget’s room.
- 1755, William Belgrove, A Treatise upon Husbandry or Planting, Boston, p. 14,[2]
- (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
- (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- 1980, Robert Barr, The Coming Out Present (episode of Detective, BBC radio drama; around 16 min 20 sec)
- And for the strongroom itself, he can tell us where to find the combination of the day. We had allowed four hours, Joe, but with this help, once you get us inside, it's a walk! I've been timing it.
- 1980, Robert Barr, The Coming Out Present (episode of Detective, BBC radio drama; around 16 min 20 sec)
- (Britain, finance, slang, dated) 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).
Synonyms
- (trip made by walking): stroll (slow walk), hike (long walk), trek (long walk)
- (distance walked): hike (if long), trek (if long)
- (manner of walking): gait
- (path): footpath, path, (British) pavement, (US) sidewalk
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- Birdcage Walk
- sidewalk
- spacewalk
- walkthrough, walk-through
Related terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- lawk
Manx
Etymology
Borrowed from English waulk.
Verb
walk (verbal noun walkal or walkey, past participle walkit)
- to full (cloth), waulk, tuck
Synonyms
- tuck
- giallee
Derived terms
- walker (“tucker”)
- walkeyder (“fuller, tucker”)
Middle English
Alternative forms
- valk
- vakk
- wakk
Etymology
Probably cognate with Modern English watch and wake.
Verb
walk
- to watch
Related terms
- wake (“a watch, vigil”)
- waken (“to wake”)
- wakien (“to watch, awake”)
- waknen (“to be aroused from sleep”)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /valk/
Noun
walk f
- genitive plural of walka
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dart
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??t/
- (General American) enPR: därt, IPA(key): /d??t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Etymology 1
From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *dar?þu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *d??- (“to sharpen”); compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”).
Noun
dart (plural darts)
- A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin
- 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, 2 Samuel, xviii, 14,
- Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
- 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, 2 Samuel, xviii, 14,
- Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
- (sometimes figuratively) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
- 1830, Hannah More, Sensibility, The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1, page 38,
- The artful inquiry, whose venom?d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
- 1830, Hannah More, Sensibility, The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1, page 38,
- A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
- (military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
- 1988, Michigan Aviation (volumes 21-25, page 62)
- Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.
- 1988, Michigan Aviation (volumes 21-25, page 62)
- (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
- 1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, 1970, page 79,
- Trucking?s my dart too.
- 1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, 1970, page 79,
- A sudden or fast movement.
- (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
- A fish, the dace.
- (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
- 2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse
- The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.
- 2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).
Verb
dart (third-person singular simple present darts, present participle darting, simple past and past participle darted)
- (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
- (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
- The sun darts forth his beams.
- (transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart
- (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
- The flying man darted eastward.
- (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along
Derived terms
- dartle
- darter
Translations
References
- dart in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- 'tard, -tard, ADRT, Art.D., DTRA, drat, tard, trad
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English dart.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?rt/
- Hyphenation: dart
- Rhymes: -?rt
Noun
dart m (plural darts, diminutive dartje n)
- dart
- Synonym: dartpijl
Derived terms
- darten
- dartpijl
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French dart, dard, from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *dar?þu, from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz.
Alternative forms
- darte
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dart/
Noun
dart (plural dartes)
- A hand-thrown spear or missile; a javelin.
- (figuratively) Assailing; a hostile act.
Descendants
- English: dart
- ? Dutch: dart
- Scots: dart, dairt; dard
References
- “dart, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-29.
Etymology 2
Formed from the noun.
Verb
dart
- Alternative form of darten
Middle French
Alternative forms
- dard, dar
Etymology
Old French, see below
Noun
dart m (plural dars)
- weapon similar to a javelin
Descendants
- French: dard
- ? Italian: dardo
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English dart.
Noun
dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural darter, definite plural dartene)
- a throwing dart
References
- “dart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English dart.
Noun
dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural dartar, definite plural dartane)
- a throwing dart
References
- “dart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
- dard, dar
Etymology
From Medieval Latin dardus (“spear”).
Noun
dart m (oblique plural darz or dartz, nominative singular darz or dartz, nominative plural dart)
- spear, javelin
Descendants
- Middle French: dart, dard, dar
- French: dard
- ? Italian: dardo
- French: dard
- Walloon: darde
- ? Middle English: dart, darte
- English: dart
- ? Dutch: dart
- Scots: dart, dairt; dard
- English: dart
Palauan
Etymology
From Pre-Palauan *ðaðut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?atus, from Proto-Austronesian *?atus.
Numeral
dart
- hundred
Pennsylvania German
Alternative forms
- dort
- datt
Etymology
Compare German dort, da.
Adverb
dart
- there
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse darr, from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz.
Noun
dart c
- darts (the game where the competitors throw small arrows against a circular target)
- (rare) dart (one of the small arrows in the game of darts)
Synonyms
- pilkastning (1)
- pil (2)
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