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walk

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: wôk, IPA(key): /w??k/
  • (US) enPR: wôk, IPA(key): /w?k/
  • (cotcaught 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)

  1. (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.
  2. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
  3. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
  4. (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.
  5. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
  6. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
  7. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
  8. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
  9. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
  10. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
  11. (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.
  12. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
  13. (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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
    • , link
      Do you think I'd walk in any plot?
  17. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
  18. (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)

  1. A trip made by walking.
  2. A distance walked.
  3. (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.
  4. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
  5. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
  6. (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.
  7. (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".
  8. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
  9. (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.
  10. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
  11. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
  12. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
  13. (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.
  14. (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)

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. genitive plural of walka

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race

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: r?s, IPA(key): /?e?s/
  • Rhymes: -e?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English race, from Old Norse rás (a running, race), from Proto-Germanic *r?s? (a course), from Proto-Indo-European *reh?s- (to flow, rush). Akin to Old English r?s (a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset), Middle Low German râs (a strong current), Dutch ras (a strong whirling current). Compare Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.

Noun

race (countable and uncountable, plural races)

  1. A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
  2. Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
  3. (computing) A race condition.
  4. A progressive movement toward a goal.
  5. A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
  6. A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
  7. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
  8. The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)

  1. (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
  2. (transitive) To compete against in such a race.
  3. (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
  4. (intransitive) Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
    • 1891 (December) Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Twisted Lip:
      "My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built."
Translations

Etymology 2

1560s, via Middle French race from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin.

Noun

race (countable and uncountable, plural races)

  1. A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics:
    1. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare ethnic group). See Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race.
      • 1838, Lincoln, Abraham, Young Men's Lyceum address
        We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them—they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors.
      • 1895 November 11, Chamberlain, Joseph, Speech given to the Imperial Institute:
        I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.
      • 1913, Martin Van Buren Knox, The religious life of the Anglo-Saxon race
    2. A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
    3. A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare species, subspecies).
      • 1898, Herman Isidore Stern, The gods of our fathers: a study of Saxon mythology, page 15)
        There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]
    4. A group or category distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
  2. (biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
  3. (zoology) Subspecies.
  4. (animal husbandry) A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
  5. (mycology, bacteriology, informal) An infraspecific rank, a pathotype, pathovar, etc.
  6. (obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
  7. (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
Synonyms
  • subspecies
  • breed
  • variety
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations

Verb

race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)

  1. To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
    • 1996, Philosophical Studies in Education, page 151:
      To be raced as black in the U.S. translates symbolically into being considered inferior to whites, lazy, immoral, boisterous, violent, and sexually promiscuous.
    • 2006, Athena D. Mutua, Progressive Black Masculinities?, Routledge (?ISBN), page 30:
      From this perspective, the project of progressive blackness entails the edification of black people and the elimination of all forms of domination that limit this edification for all those raced as black.
    • 2008, George Yancy, Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race, Rowman & Littlefield (?ISBN), page 46:
      By avoiding being raced as white, whites are able to maintain the illusion that they have always been individuals, that they have always accomplished their achievements through merit alone.
    • 2020 March 24, Sophie Lewis, The coronavirus crisis shows it's time to abolish the family:
      [T]he private family qua mode of social reproduction still, frankly, sucks. It genders, nationalizes and races us. It norms us for productive work.

Etymology 3

From Middle French [Term?], from Latin radix.

Noun

race (plural races)

  1. A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
    • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act IV, Scene III, line 45.
      I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none -- that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.
Translations

Etymology 4

Verb

race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)

  1. Obsolete form of raze.

References

  • race at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • race in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • race in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza."

Anagrams

  • -care, Acre, CERA, Care, Cera, Crea, acer, acre, care, e-car

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French race, from Italian razza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [????s?]

Noun

race c (singular definite racen, plural indefinite racer)

  1. race (subdivision of species)
  2. breed
Inflection

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English race.

Alternative forms

  • ræs

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [???js], [????s]

Noun

race n (singular definite racet, plural indefinite race)

  1. a race (a contest where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective)
  2. a rush
Inflection

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English race.

Alternative forms

  • ræse

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [????s?]

Verb

race (imperative race, infinitive at race, present tense racer, past tense racede, perfect tense er/har racet)

  1. to race (to compete in a race, a contest where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective)
  2. to rush

Further reading

  • race on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /re?s/
  • Hyphenation: race
  • Rhymes: -e?s
  • Homophone: rees

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English race.

Noun

race m (plural races, diminutive raceje n)

  1. A speed contest, a race.
    Synonym: wedloop
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

race

  1. first-person singular present indicative of racen
  2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of racen
  3. imperative of racen

French

Etymology

As Middle French rasse "entirety of ancestors and descendants of the same family or people", from ca. 1480,spelling Middle French race recorded in 1549, from Italian razza (13th century), of uncertain origin (more at razza).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?as/
  • Rhymes: -as

Noun

race f (plural races)

  1. race (classification)
  2. kind
    Synonym: espèce
  3. (zoology) breed

Related terms

Descendants

  • ? German: Rasse
    • ? Czech: rasa
    • ? Polish: rasa
    • ? Serbo-Croatian: rasa
    • ? Slovene: rasa
  • ? Romanian: ras?

References

  • “race” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

  • “race” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • acre, âcre, care, caré, créa, racé

Middle French

Etymology

16th century (spelling rasse from 1480), from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin.

Noun

race f (plural races)

  1. race; breed

Descendants


Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ra.t?s?/

Noun

race f

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of raca

Swedish

Etymology

From English race.

Noun

race n

  1. race (competition)

Declension

Derived terms

  • köra sitt eget race

References

  • race in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • race in Svensk ordbok (SO)

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