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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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turn
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??n/
- (General American) enPR: tûrn, IPA(key): /t?n/
- Homophones: tern, tarn
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
Etymology 1
From Middle English turnen, from Old English turnian, tyrnan (“to turn, rotate, revolve”) and Old French torner (“to turn”), both from Latin torn?re (“to round off, turn in a lathe”), from tornus (“lathe”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (tórnos, “turning-lathe: a tool used for making circles”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh?- (“to rub, rub by turning, turn, twist, bore”). Cognate with Old English þr?wan (“to turn, twist, wind”). Displaced native Old English wendan.
Verb
turn (third-person singular simple present turns, present participle turning, simple past and past participle turned or (obsolete) turnt)
- To make a non-linear physical movement.
- (intransitive) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there. […]."
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- (intransitive) to change one's direction of travel.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to change the course of.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- (intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
- (copulative) To become (begin to be).
- Synonyms: become, get
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- 2017, Michael J. Totten, Into the Wasteland: A Zombie Novel
- His companions had turned him on purpose. Annie, bless her heart, was immune.
- 2017, Michael J. Totten, Into the Wasteland: A Zombie Novel
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- To reach a certain age.
- To hinge; to depend.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- To change personal condition.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (copulative) To become (begin to be).
- (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
- (archaic) To translate.
- 1735, Alexander Pope, The Prologue to the Satires
- who turns a Persian tale for half a crown
- 1735, Alexander Pope, The Prologue to the Satires
- (transitive, role-playing games) To magically or divinely attack undead.
Synonyms
- (move around an axis through itself): rotate, spin, twirl
- (change the direction or orientation of): rotate
- (change one's direction of travel): steer, swerve, tack
- (nautical)
- (position (something) by folding it back on itself):
- (become): become, get, go
- (rebel): rebel, revolt
- (shape on a lathe): lathe
- (go bad): go bad, go off, sour, spoil
- (complete): complete
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Partly from Anglo-Norman *torn, from Latin turnus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (tórnos), and partly an action noun from the verb turn.
Noun
turn (plural turns)
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A walk to and fro.
- Synonym: promenade
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- The time required to complete a project.
- Synonym: turnaround
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- Character; personality; nature.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
- 1960, Theatre Notebook (volumes 14-16, page 122)
- Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances.
- 1960, Theatre Notebook (volumes 14-16, page 122)
- (printing, dated) A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
- (Britain, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- 1977, Michael Arthur Firth, Valuation of Shares and the Efficient-markets Theory (page 11)
- There are usually at least two jobbers who specialise in the leading stocks, and this acts to keep the jobber's turn to a reasonable amount […]
- 1977, Michael Arthur Firth, Valuation of Shares and the Efficient-markets Theory (page 11)
Synonyms
- (change of direction or orientation):
- (movement about an axis returning to the original orientation): 360° turn, complete rotation, complete turn, full rotation, full turn
- (single loop of a coil): loop
- (chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others): go
- (one's chance to make a move in a game): go, move
- (figure in music):
- (time required to complete a project):
- (fit or period of giddiness): dizziness, dizzy spell, giddiness
- (change in temperament or circumstance): change, swing
- (sideways movement of a cricket ball):
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (t?n)
Translations
Derived terms
See also
- Appendix:Parts of the knot
- ornament
- trill
Anagrams
- runt
Finnish
Etymology
< English turn
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tø?n/, [?t?ø??n]
Noun
turn
- (poker) turn (fourth communal card in Texas hold'em)
Declension
Synonyms
- neljäs avokortti
Icelandic
Etymology
From Latin turris (“tower”). Cognate with Danish tårn and German Turm. First appears in the 12th or 13th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??rtn/
- Rhymes: -?rtn
Noun
turn m (genitive singular turns, nominative plural turnar)
- tower
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the verb turne; compare with German Turnen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???/
- Rhymes: -???
Noun
turn m (indeclinable) (uncountable)
- gymnastics (athletic discipline)
Related terms
- gymnastikk
- turner
References
- “turn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb turne
Noun
turn m (uncountable)
- gymnastics (athletic discipline)
Related terms
- gymnastikk
References
- “turn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Turm, from Latin turrem, accusative form of turris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /turn/
Noun
turn n (plural turnuri)
- tower
- (chess) rook
Declension
Synonyms
- (chess rook): tur?
See also
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