1. Verb
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.
2. Verb
To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
3. Verb
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.
4. Verb
To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
5. Verb
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
6. Verb
To move off; to depart.
7. Verb
To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
8. Verb
To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
9. Verb
To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
10. Noun
The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
11. Noun
The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
12. Noun
Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
13. Noun
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.
14. Noun
A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
15. Noun
Conduct; course of action; behavior.
16. Noun
The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
17. Noun
careers in general; "it happens in all walks of life"
Vocabulary classified under Economics
18. Noun
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls"
Vocabulary classified under Education
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