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As a verb walk

is (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 .

As a noun walk

is a trip made by walking.

As a proper noun die is

god.

walk

English

(walk)

Verb

(en verb)
  • (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.
  • *, chapter=15
  • , title= 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.}}
  • To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
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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, 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.
  • 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?
  • 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 walk

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trip made by walking.
  • I take a walk every morning
  • A distance walked.
  • It’s a long walk from my house to the library
  • (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.
  • The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year
  • 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".
  • 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) sidewalk

    Derived 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 walk

    die

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), ).J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture'' (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), page 150, s.v. "death"Vladimir Orel, ''A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003).

    Verb

  • To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
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  • #* 1839 , Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist , Penguin 1985, page 87:
  • "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.
  • #* 2000 , Stephen King, On Writing , Pocket Books 2002, page 85:
  • In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
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  • #* 1865 , British Medical Journal , 4 Mar 1865, page 213:
  • She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
  • #* 2007 , Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune , Tor 2007, page 191:
  • "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."
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  • #* 1961 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:
  • Englishmen are dying' for England, Americans are '''dying''' for America, Germans are '''dying''' for Germany, Russians are ' dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.
  • #* 2003 , Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation , Routledge 2003, page 187:
  • Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
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  • #* 1600 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act III, Scene I:
  • Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die' with mockes, / Which is as bad as ' die with tickling.
  • #* 1830 , Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon , Richards 1854, page 337:
  • And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
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  • She died with dignity.
  • To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
  • He died a hero's death.
    They died a thousand deaths.
  • (figuratively) To yearn intensely.
  • * 1598 , (Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing), Act III, Scene II:
  • Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.
  • * 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168
  • I could see that he was dying, dying' for a cigarette, '''dying''' for a fix maybe, ' dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.
  • (idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
  • The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
  • (figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  • He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
  • (colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  • If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die .
  • (intransitive, of a, machine) to stop working, to break down.
  • My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
  • (intransitive, of a, computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
  • To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
  • * Spectator
  • letting the secret die within his own breast
  • * Tennyson
  • Great deeds cannot die .
  • To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  • * Bible, 1 Samuel xxv. 37
  • His heart died within, and he became as a stone.
  • To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
  • to die to pleasure or to sin
  • (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  • To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  • (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
  • Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
    Synonyms
    * (to stop living) bite the dust, buy the farm, check out, cross over, expire, succumb, give up the ghost, pass, pass away, pass on, be no more, cease to be, go to meet one's maker, be a stiff, push up the daisies, hop off the twig, kick the bucket, shuffle off this mortal coil, join the choir invisible * See also
    Derived terms
    * be dying for * die away * die down * diehard/die-hard/die hard * die off * die out * do-or-die * the good die young * to die for

    References

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (Modern (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (plural: dice) A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. . In: Wikisource . Wikimedia: 2007. § 46.
  • If a die were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
  • (plural: dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
  • (plural: dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape.
  • A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
  • (plural: dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
  • (plural: dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
  • (electronics) (plural:'' dice ''or dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
  • Any small cubical or square body.
  • * Watts
  • words pasted upon little flat tablets or dies
  • (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
  • * Spenser
  • Such is the die of war.
    Usage notes
    The game of dice is singular. Thus in "Dice is a game played with dice," the first occurrence is singular, the second occurrence is plural. Otherwise, using the plural (m) as a singular instead of (m) is considered incorrect by most authorities, but has come into widespread use.
    Derived terms
    * loaded dice * the die is cast * tool and die * * * * * * * *