Word Meanings - WALK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. valka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps;
Additional info about word: WALK
akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. valka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; 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. "Her tongue did walk in foul reproach." Spenser. 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. 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 , to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Rom. viii. 1. -- To walk after the Spirit , to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. Rom. viii. 1. -- To walk by faith , 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 , to live in ignorance, error, and sin. 1 John i. 6. -- To walk in the flesh , to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Cor. x. 3. -- To walk in the light , 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 , to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isa. xliii. 2. -- To walk with God , to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WALK)
- Career
- Course
- success
- walk
- line
- progress
- history
- race
- Carriage
- Transportation
- conveyance
- bearing
- manner
- conduct
- demeanor
- gait
- mien
- behavior
- deportment
- vehicle
- Step
- Advance
- pace
- space
- grade
- remove
- degree
- gradation
- progression
- track
- trice
- proceeding
- action
- measure
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WALK)
- Retard
- hinder
- withhold
- withdraw
- recall
- depress
- degrade
- suppress
- oppose
- retreat
- decrease
- Misfit
- misconform
- mismeasure
- misdeal
- misapportion
Related words: (words related to WALK)
- SUCCESS
1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - TRACKLAYER
Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n. - PROGRESSIONAL
Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress. - PROGRESS
to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - COURSED
1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry. - SUCCESSLESS
Having no success. Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. -- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n. - PROCEED
To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou - PROCEEDER
One who proceeds. - TRICENTENARY
Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n. - ACTION
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of - SPACE
One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance - TRACKWALKER
A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks. - RETREATMENT
The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey. - CARRIAGEABLE
Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin. - COURSE
1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. - PROCEEDING
The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn. -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction. (more info) 1. The act - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - FRICATRICE
A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson. - PHYSOGRADE
Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - FRATRICELLI
The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and - IMPROVISATRICE
See IMPROVVISATRICE - REACTIONIST
A reactionary. C. Kingsley. - RETROGRADATION
1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline. - RECOURSEFUL
Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton. - SALTIGRADE
Having feet or legs formed for leaping. - MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - REDACTION
The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest. - CHYLIFACTION
The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - IMMEASURED
Immeasurable. Spenser.