Walk vs Fling - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between walk and fling

is that walk is to push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks while fling is to throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.

In obsolete terms the difference between walk and fling

is that walk is to be in motion; to act; to move while fling is a trifing matter; an object of contempt.

As verbs the difference between walk and fling

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 fling is to throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.

As nouns the difference between walk and fling

is that walk is a trip made by walking while fling is an act of throwing, often violently.

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 .

*: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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To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.

Of an object, to be stolen.

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.

*: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.

*(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.

(lb) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.

(lb) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).

To leave, resign.

*(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

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fling

English

Noun

(en noun)

An act of throwing, often violently.

An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.

the fling of a horse

An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.

* D. Jerrold

When I was as young as you, I had my fling . I led a life of pleasure.

Short, often sexual relationship.

I had a fling with a girl I met on holiday.

(figuratively) An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling" ).

(obsolete) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.

* Jonathan Swift

I, who love to have a fling , / Both at senate house and king.

A kind of dance.

the Highland fling

(obsolete) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.

* Old proverb

England were but a fling / Save for the crooked stick and the grey goose wing.

Synonyms

* (l)

Verb

To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.

* Dryden

'Tis Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings, / Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings.

* Addison

I know thy generous temper well. / Fling but the appearance of dishonour on it, / It straight takes fire.

* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]

Wilkinson was struggling, sending the re-start straight into touch and flinging a pass the same way, and France then went close to the first try of the contest as Clerc took a long pass out on the left and was just bundled into touch by the corner flag.

(archaic) To throw oneself in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.

* Milton

And crop-full, out of doors he flings .

* Elizabeth Browning

I flung' closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, ' flings to sheath.

(archaic) To throw; to wince; to flounce.

* Helen Crocket, The Ettrick Shepherd's Last Tale

The horse flung most potently, making his heels fly aloft in the air.

(archaic) To utter abusive language; to sneer.

The scold began to flout and fling .