Walk vs Gimp - What's the difference?
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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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, title= 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,
*: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".
A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also (guimpe).
Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 87:
The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
(dated, chiefly North Eastern US) Gumption; spirit; ambition; vigor; pep.
* 1898 , Charles Frederick Wingate, What Shall Our Boys Do for a Living? ,
* 1915 , Frederick Frye Rockwell, The Key to the Land: What a City Man Did with a Small Farm ,
* 1924 , , The Midlander ,
(of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine'', creating ''
* 1856 , Campbell Morfit, A Treatise on Chemistry Applied to the Manufacture of Soap and Candles ,
* 1982 , Robert Donington, Music and Its Instruments ,
(dated) To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.
* 1890 , Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, How to Cook Vegetables ,
* 1906 , Thomas Ernest Herbert, Telegraphy: A Detailed Exposition of the Telegraph System of the British ,
* 1906 , George Dudley Aspinall Parr, Electrical Engineering: In Theory and Practice ,
* 1978 , John Geraint Jenkins, Traditional Country Craftsmen ,
(informal) A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
(informal) A crippled leg.
(informal) A limp or a limping gait.
* 1934 , , Madame La Gimp [http://books.google.com/books?q=%22gimp+in+one+leg%22]
* 1934 , , What, No Butler? [http://books.google.com/books?id=h7OsO8GyjaAC&pg=PA35&dq=gimp&sig=edaefBbh1yxFkgXDQK7GkigyDQw]
(slang, derogatory)
(BDSM) A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See in Wikipedia.
(dated, Scotland and N England) Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.
As verbs the difference between walk and gimp
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 gimp is (of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating ', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped'''.As nouns the difference between walk and gimp
is that walk is a trip made by walking while gimp is a narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also {{term|guimpe}}.As an adjective gimp is
neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.walk
English
(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 walkgimp
English
Etymology 1
Attested since about 1660, perhaps from (etyl) gimp'' or (etyl) guimpe, and likely from (etyl) ''guimpre'', a variant of ''(guipure) , a kind of trimming. The regional sense of "gumption" is attested since about 1905, and may have developed due to the reinforced nature of gimp cord, or possibly the influence of the words (gumption) and (gumph).Noun
(en noun)- I'm a fisher of men and my gimp is doing a saltarello over every body of water to fetch up what it may.
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- Love them and encourage them, but put some 'gimp' into them.
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- You haven't got gimp enough to, any more than you could smash the rest of that pint, instead of swallowing it. You're a weakling...
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- When people put a lot on what their folks used to do, it always means they haven't got gimp enough left to do anything themselves.
Verb
(en verb)gimped yarn'', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. ''See gimped .
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- It consists of seventy fine spun cotton threads, gimped or tied around with thread by a machine similar to that for wrapping bonnet wire.
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- ...low strings later than the mid-seventeenth century are commonly gimped (wound with fine wire on a moderate core) to allow sufficient tension without excessive mass or stiffness.
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- They are prettier cut and gimped in the shape of wheels.
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- This active material consists of a tape of pure lead, which is gimped whilst cold with deep grooves and ridges...
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- Each hole is filled by a rosette of pure lead made by rolling up lead strip or tape which has been gimped or corrugated.
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- In some cases the leather has to be decorated with perforations while its edges may be serrated or gimped .
Etymology 2
Attested in US slang since the 1920s. Maybe influenced by, or cognate with (limp).Noun
(en noun)- She walks with a gimp in one leg, which is why she is called Madame La Gimp...
- ...Flat-wheel Walter...who is called by this name because he walks with a gimp on one side...
Synonyms
* (person who is lame) cripple, disabled (person) * dweeb, nerd, geek, gump, spod, dorkEtymology 3
Scots. Alternate form of (jimp). Compare (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)Quotations
* (English Citations of "gimp")References
* 1846 , John T. Brockett, A Glossary of North Country Words ,page 190