Walk vs Plug - 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.
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*: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".
(electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
(US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
(US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
(US, slang) A worthless horse.
(construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these.
(geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
(horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
(informal) To persist or continue with something.
To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
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(slang) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.
Walk is a related term of plug.
As verbs the difference between walk and plug
is that 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 while plug is to stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.As nouns the difference between walk and plug
is that walk is a trip made by walking while plug is (electricity) a pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.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 walkplug
English
(wikipedia plug)Noun
(en noun)- I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
- Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
- He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.
- That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
- During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.
- Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.
- The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.
Synonyms
* (hole filler) bung, stopper * (worthless horse) dobbin, hack, jade, nagDerived terms
* butt-plug * breech plug * bridge plug * fire plug * glow plug * hawse plug * plugboard * plug and feather * plug centerbit * plug rod * plug valve * spark plugCoordinate terms
* (worthless horse) bum (racing )Verb
(plugg)- He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
- The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
- Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
- I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...
- I'd love to plug her.
