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In intransitive terms the difference between walk and read

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 read is of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.

In transitive terms the difference between walk and read

is that walk is to push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks while read is to substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.

In obsolete terms the difference between walk and read

is that walk is to be in motion; to act; to move while read is to tell; to declare; to recite.

As a proper noun Read is

{{surname|from=Old English}}, a less common spelling variant of Reid.

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

    read

    English

    (wikipedia read)

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.i:
  • But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read / That short reuenge the man may ouertake […].
  • (transitive, or, intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
  • * 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
  • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • (transitive, or, intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a ''to'' phrase or an indirect object.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement. […]}}
  • To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
  • To consist of certain text.
  • The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.
  • Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
  • That sentence reads strangely.
  • To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); (used to introduce an emendation of a text).
  • * 1832 , John Lemprière et al., Bibliotheca classica , Seventh Edition, W. E. Dean, page 263:
  • In , it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
  • (informal, usually, ironic) .
  • * 2009 , Suzee Vlk et al., The GRE Test for Dummies , Sixth Edition, Wiley Publishing, ISBN 978-0-470-00919-2, page 191:
  • Eliminate illogical (read : stupid) answer choices.
  • (telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
  • (British) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
  • (computing) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
  • to read''' a hard disk; to '''read''' a port; to '''read the keyboard
  • (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
  • * (William Tyndale)
  • Therefore, I read thee, get to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.
  • (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iv:
  • But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
  • (transgenderism) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
  • (read)
  • Usage notes

    * When "read" is used transitively with an author's name as the object, it generally means "to look at writing(s) by (the specified person)" (rather than "to recognise (the specified person) as transgender"). Example: "I am going to read Milton before I read His Dark Materials'', so I know what ''His Dark Materials is responding to."

    Synonyms

    * (look at and interpret letters or other information) interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan * (speak aloud words or other information that is written) read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak * (be able to hear) copy, hear, receive * (make a study of) learn, study, look up

    Antonyms

    * (to be recognised as transgender) pass

    Derived terms

    * beread * cold read * dictated but not read * have one's head read * lip read/lip-read * mind-read * misread * overread * read along * read between the lines * read dating * read for * read my lips * read-only * read out * read over * read somebody like a book * read somebody the riot act * read someone's mind * read the green * read through * read up * readable * reader * reading * RTFM * sight read * speed-read * underread * unread * WORM/Write Once Read Many * well-read

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
  • * Furnivall
  • One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read .
  • * Philip Larkin, Self's the Man
  • And when he finishes supper / Planning to have a read at the evening paper / It's Put a screw in this wall — / He has no time at all
  • * 2006 , MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)
  • In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the noun "read") * cold read * read-out, readout

    See also

    (read)

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