What is the difference between walk and run?
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(lb) 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 .
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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Of an object, to be stolen.
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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.
(lb) To travel (a distance) by walking.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked' home all the way, foaming and raging.His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He ' walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
(lb) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I will rather trusta thief to walk my ambling gelding.
To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
(lb) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
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(lb) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
(lb) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
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To leave, resign.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:He will make their cows and garrans to walk .
(lb) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
*1994 , John Forester, Bicycle Transportation: A Handbook for Cycling Transportation Engineers , MIT Press,
*: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.
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
*:We walk' perversely with God, and he will ' walk crookedly toward us.
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.
*(Hugh Latimer) (c.1485-1555)
*:I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
(lb) To be in motion; to act; to move.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead / May walk again.
*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
*:Do you think I'd walk in any plot?
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 .
(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".
To move swiftly.
#(lb) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
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#(label) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.
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#(lb) To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.
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# To compete in a race.
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#(lb) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
# To carry a football down the field.
#(lb) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
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#(lb) To flee away from a danger or towards help.
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# To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
To flow.
# To move or spread quickly.
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#(lb) Of a liquid, to flow.
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#(lb) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
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#(lb) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.
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#(lb) To become liquid; to melt.
#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#*:as wax dissolves, as ice begins to run
#* (1665-1728)
#*:Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.
#(lb) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
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#To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
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#*(Henry Felton) (1679-1740)
#*:The fairest diamonds are rough till they are polished, and the purest gold must be run and washed, and sifted in the ore.
# To go through without stopping, usually illegally.
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To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
To carry out an activity.
#(lb) To control or manage, be in charge of.
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#(lb) To make run in a race or an election.
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#To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
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#(lb) To be presented in one of the media.
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#(lb) To print or broadcast in the media.
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#(lb) To transport someone or something.
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#(lb) To smuggle illegal goods.
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#*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
#*:Heavy impositionsare a strong temptation of running goods.
# To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
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(lb) To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
#(lb) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
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#(lb) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
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#(lb) To make something extend in space.
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#(lb) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
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#(lb) To make a machine operate.
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(lb) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.
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To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
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*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject.
(lb) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
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*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
*1968 , (Paul Simon), The Boxer (song)
*:I was no more than a boy / In the company of strangers / In the quiet of the railway station / Running scared.
(lb) To cost a large amount of money.
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(lb) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
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To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:to run the world back to its first original
*(Arthur Collier) (1680-1732)
*:I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its punctum saliens .
To cause to enter; to thrust.
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*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:You run your head into the lion's mouth.
*(Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
*:having run his fingers through his hair
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
*Bible, (w) xxvii. 41
*:They ran the ship aground.
*(John Ray) (1627-1705)
*:A talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's secrets.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions.
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
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To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
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*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:He runneth two dangers.
To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
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*:He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.
To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
To control or have precedence in a card game.
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To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
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*:The king's ordinary style runneth , "Our sovereign lord the king."
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, chapter=5, title= (lb) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
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*:Men gave them their own names, by which they run a great while in Rome.
*(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
*:Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himself.
To have growth or development.
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*:if the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:Temperate climates run into moderate governments.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
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*Sir (Josiah Child) (1630-1699)
*:Customs run' only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest ' runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid.
Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
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Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
* 1759 , N. Tindal, The Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England , volume 21 (continuation volume 9), page 92:
A pleasure trip.
* Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
* 2006 , Tsirk Susej, The Demonic Bible (ISBN 1411690737), page 41:
Migration (of fish).
A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
(skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
A (regular) trip or route.
The route taken while running or skiing.
The distance sailed by a ship.
* 1977 , Star Wars (film)
A voyage.
An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
(Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
State of being current; currency; popularity.
* Addison
A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
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# A series of tries in a game that were successful.
(card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
(music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
A trial of an experiment.
A flow of liquid; a leak.
(US, dialect) A small creek or part thereof.
The amount of something made.
A production quantity in a factory.
The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
* Macaulay
A quick pace, faster than a walk.
# (of horses) A fast gallop.
A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
Any sudden large demand for something.
The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
The horizontal length of a set of stairs
A standard or unexceptional group or category.
(baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
(cricket) A point scored.
(American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
* 2003 , Jack Seibold, Spartan Sports Encyclopedia , page 592:
(rfc-sense) Unrestricted use of an area.
A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
(nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
(construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
(mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
A pair or set of millstones.
(video games) A playthrough.
(slang)
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In a liquid state; melted or molten.
* 1921 , L. W. Ferris, H. W. Redfield and W. R. North, The Volatile Acids and the Volatile Oxidizable Substances of Cream and Experimental Butter'', in the ''Journal of Dairy Science , volume 4 (1921), page 522:
Cast in a mould.
* 1735 , Thomas Frankz, A tour through France, Flanders, and Germany: in a letter to Robert Savil , page 18:
* 1833 , The Cabinet Cyclopaedia: A treatise on the progressive improvement and present state of the Manufactures in Metal'', volume 2, ''Iron and Steel (printed in London), page 314:
* (Richard of Raindale, The Plan of my House vindicated'', quoted by) T. T. B. in the ''Dwelling of Richard of Raindale, King of the Moors'', published in ''The Mirror , number 966, 7 September 1839, page 153:
Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
(of a, fish) Travelled]], migrated; having made a migration or a spawning [[#Noun, run.
* 1889 , Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing: Salmon and Trout , fifth edition, page 185:
* 1986 , Arthur Oglesby, Fly fishing for salmon and sea trout , page 15:
* 2005 , Rod Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History , page 86:
Run is a related term of walk.
In intransitive terms the difference between walk and run
is that walk is 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 while run is of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.In transitive terms the difference between walk and run
is that walk is to push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks while run is to cost a large amount of money.In baseball terms the difference between walk and run
is that walk is 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" while run is a score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.As an adjective run is
in a liquid state; melted or molten.walk
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(walk)Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
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Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)Synonyms
* (move upon two feet) - See also * be acquitted, get off, go free * (be stolen) be/get stolen; (British) be/get nicked, be/get pinched * (beat cloth) full, waulk (obsolete)Derived terms
* walkathon * walker * Walker * walkies * walk away from * walk away with * walk in * walk in circles * walk into * walk it * walk it off * walk like an Egyptian * walk off * walk off with * walk on * walk on the wild side * walk out * walk over * walk through * walkie-talkie * walkman * Walkman * walkover * walk tall * walk the beat * walk the walkNoun
(en noun)- I take a walk every morning
- It’s a long walk from my house to the library
- The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year
- The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone
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) sidewalkDerived terms
* cakewalk * catwalk * farmer's walk * intentional walk * perp walk * race walk * random walk * sidewalk * space walk / spacewalk * sponsored walk * walk in the park * walk in the snow * walk on the wild side * walk policy * whistle walkrun
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Verb
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Synonyms
* go * pass * lead * extend * hunt * hunt down * track down * travel * speed * hurryDerived terms
* run across * run after * run along * run around * run away * run by * run down * run in * run into * run off * run on * run out * run over * run through * run to * run up * run up against * also-ran * hit-and-run * overrun * runaround * runaway * run-down * run-in * runner * runner-up * runny * run-off * run-of-the-mill, run of the mill * runtime * run-up * runway * front runner * run for the hills * run rate * run time * hold with the hare and run with the hounds * hit the ground running * in the running * off and running * one can run but one can't hide * out of the running * make someone's blood run cold * run a bath * run a fever * run aground * run amok, run amuck * run an errand * run a risk * run a temperature * run circles around * run for the roses * run hot * run hot and cold * run high * run in the family * run low * run out of steam * run rampant * run scared * run somebody of their feet * run somebody ragged * run the gamut * run the gauntlet * run into the ground * run the show * up and runningNoun
(en noun)- I just got back from my morning run .
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- I need to make a run to the store.
- Let's go for a run in the car.
- And I think of giving her a run in London for a change.
- During his run from the police, he claimed to have a metaphysical experience which can only be described as “having passed through an abyss.”
- The bus on the Cherry Street run is always crowded.
- Which run did you do today?
- a good run'''; a '''run of fifty miles
- You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
- a run to China
- He set up a rabbit run .
- It is impossible for detached papers to have a general run , or long continuance, if not diversified with humour.
- I’m having a run of bad luck.
- He went to Las Vegas and spent all his money over a three-day run .
- They who made their arrangements in the first run of misadventure put a seal on their calamities.
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- The data got lost, so I'll have to perform another run of the experiment.
- The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.
- a run of must in wine-making
- the first run of sap in a maple orchard
- The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run ".
- The book’s initial press run will be 5,000 copies.
- Yesterday we did a run of 12,000 units.
- The run of the show lasted two weeks, and we sold out every night.
- It is the last week of our French cinema run .
- A canting, mawkish play had an immense run .
- He broke into a run .
- Financial insecurity led to a run on the banks, as customers feared for the security of their savings.
- There was a run on Christmas presents.
- He stood out from the usual run of applicants.
- one of the greatest runs of all time.
- Aaron Roberts added an insurance touchdown on a one-yard run .
- He can have the run of the house.
- I have a run in my stocking.
- This was my first successful run without losing any health.
- And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same / When I'm rushing on my run .
Synonyms
* (horizontal part of a step) tread * (unravelling) ladder (British) * (computing) execute, start * See alsoAntonyms
* (horizontal part of a step) rise, riser * (horizontal distance of a set of stairs) riseDerived terms
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* (computer science) trajectoryAdjective
(-)- Put some run butter on the vegetables.
- Samples of the regular run butter were sealed in 1 pound tins and sent to Washington, where the butter was scored and examined.
- Vast quantities are cast in sand moulds, with that kind of run steel which is so largely used in the production of common table-knives and forks.
- For making tea I have a kettle,
- Besides a pan made of run metal;
- An old arm-chair, in which I sit well —
- The back is round.
- The temperature of the water is consequently much higher than in either England or Scotland, and many newly run salmon will be found in early spring in the upper waters of Irish rivers where obstructions exist.
- It may be very much a metallic appearance as opposed to the silver freshness of a recently run salmon.
- Thus, on almost any day of the year, a fresh-run salmon may be caught legally somewhere in the British Isles.