Walk vs Way - 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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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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(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".
(lb) To do with a place or places.
#A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
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#*:The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.
#*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
#*:The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.
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A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
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(lb) Personal interaction.
#Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
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#Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
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(lb) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
(lb) Speed, progress, momentum.
*1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
*:Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way .
A degree, an amount, a sense.
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* (a tradition within Heathenry) To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
(obsolete) To travel.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
(informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
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(slang, with positive adjective) Very.
* 2005 , Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts ,
(informal) Far.
Walk is a related term of way.
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 .As a noun walk
is a trip made by walking.As a proper noun way is
christianity or way can be .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 walkway
English
(wikipedia way)Etymology 1
From (etyl) wei, wai, weighe, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* waye (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.}}
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
citation, passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way' she laughed, cackling like a hen, the ' way she talked to the waiters and the maid,
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way . The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
Quotations
* (path or direction) "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* by way of * by the way * change one's ways * come one's way * either way * every which way * give way * go all the way * go out of one's way * have it both ways * in a way * in the way * in the way of * have a way with * have one's way * have one's wicked way * know one's way around * lose one's way * no way * no way to treat a lady * on the way * one way or another * right of way * runway * slipway * taxiway * the way things are * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach * wayfinding * way in * way of all flesh * Way of the Cross * way of the world / ways of the world * way of life * way off * way out * waybill * way to goVerb
(en verb)- on a time as they together way'd , / He made him open chalenge [...].
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Apheresis of (m).Alternative forms
* (dated)Adverb
(-)- I'm way too tired to do that.
- I'm a way better singer than she.
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- It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.
- I'm way tired
- String theory is way cool, except for the math.
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- With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?
- I used to live way over there.
- The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.