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As nouns the difference between walk and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

is that walk is a trip made by walking while pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is (label) a factitious disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from eruption of a volcano.

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 .

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

    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-coniosis * pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis *

    Noun

    (pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses)
  • (label) A factitious disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from eruption of a volcano.
  • * {{quote-journal
  • , year = 1980 , month = March , title = Black Lung , first = Lorin E. , last = Kerr , journal = Journal of Public Health Policy , volume = 1 , issue = 1 , page = 50 , jstor = 3342357 , passage = Call it miner's asthma, silicosis, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or black lung—they are all dust diseases with the same symptoms. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
  • , date = 1998-08-27 , title = Lament for a Lung Disease , author = Smokey , newsgroup = talk.bizarre , id = 6s3r8o$brt$1@camel15.mindspring.com , url = http://groups.google.com/group/talk.bizarre/browse_thread/thread/3db7020dcb5b531e/cbd79ebd7c266219?q=pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , passage = I say that it must be the silica dust
    That we breathed through our mouths and our noses
    That brought pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis . }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
  • , date = 2002-12-18T04:19:52 , group = alt.fan.scarecrow , author = Pod , title = Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , id = iHSL9.2091$h43.295898@stones , url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.scarecrow/msg/39876843908f9513 , passage = It's either pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , or a bad cough. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , date = 2011-04-28 , title = Am I the Person My Mother Warned Me About?: A Four-year College Experience ... Only the Good Parts , first = Kurt D. , last = Stradtman , publisher = Xlibris , isbn = 9781462862887 , lccn = 2011906469 , page = 90 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=06v2Q_rL_dAC&pg=PA90&dq=pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , passage = I still can't watch House M.D.'' and not have my mind wonder Even I can fear of(SIC) having ''Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis after watching it. }}

    Quotations

    Coordinate terms

    * black lung * potter's rot * miner cough

    Hypernyms

    * pneumoconiosis * silicosis

    Usage notes

    (Usage notes) * The Oxford English Dictionary lists pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis as “a factitious word alleged to mean ‘a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silica dust usually found in volcanos’ but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word”. * This word was invented purely to be a contender for the title of the longest word in the English language, comprising forty-five letters and nineteen syllables. The word is not in official medical usage, and textbooks refer to this disease as pneumonoconiosis, pneumoconiosis, or silicosis. ; Other contenders for the title of “the longest word in the English language” * hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia — 35 letters * supercalifragilisticexpialidocious — 34 letters * floccinaucinihilipilificatious — 30 letters * floccinaucinihilipilification — 29 letters * antidisestablishmentarianism — 28 letters