The Meaning of walk

• (v. i.) 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.
• (v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
• (v. i.) 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.
• (v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
• (v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
• (v. i.) To move off; to depart.
• (v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
• (v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
• (v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
• (n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
• (n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
• (n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
• (n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior.
• (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.

Synonyms

Step , stride , march , stalk , plod , tread , tramp , trudge.

Antonyms

Halt , stop , stand still , ride.

Homophones

walke , wauk

Rhymes

ad-hoc , adcock , aftershock , airlock , alcock , antiknock , antilock , antioch , baack , bach , balk , ballcock , bangkok , barach , baulk , bedrock , bloc , bloch , block , blok , boardwalk , boch , bock , bohlke , bok , broc , brock , calk , catwalk , caulk , chalk , chock , chok , clock , cloque , cock , comstock , cornstalk , croc , crock , crosstalk , crosswalk , deadlock , doc , dock , eisenach , elcock , electroshock , erlach , estok , falk , falke , faulk , feedstock , flintlock , floc , flock , frock , fyock , gamecock , gawk , glock , gocke , gohlke , goshawk , gridlock , groch , haack , haacke , haak , hammerlock , hamrock , hancock , hassebrock , hauck , hauk , hauke , havelock , hawk , hawke , haycock , hemlock , hitchcock , hoc , hoch , hock , hollyhock , interlock , iraq , jacques , jaywalk , jock , kilmarnock , kloc , klock , klocke , knaack , knaak , knock , kock , kok , kroc , krock , krok , kwok , laack , laake , landlock , lauck , laughingstock , laycock , leacock , livestock , loch , lock , locke , maack , mach , madlock , manioc , maroc , matchlock , mauck , mauk , maycock , moch , mock , mohawk , mok , nighthawk , nock , norwalk , oarlock , och , overstock , padlock , pathak , peacock , ploch , plock , poch , pock , poppycock , reichenbach , restock , roadblock , roc , roch , rock , rocke , rocque , salk , sauk , schaack , schalk , schlock , schoch , shaak , shamrock , shedlock , sherlock , shock , shrock , shylock , sidewalk , skok , skroch , sleepwalk , smock , sock , sok , spock , spurlock , squawk , staack , stalk , stock , stocke , stokke , strock , talk , tock , tomahawk , toque , undock , unlock , vlok , vocke , waack , walke , warloeck , wedlock , woodcock , woodstock , yeosock , zoch , zwack