BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Walk
- to resign from a job
Wiktionary Definition for: Walk
- To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pairs of feet, in the case of quadrupeds) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare '''run'''.
- colloquial law To go free, particularly when actually guilty.
- Ex:''If you can't present a better case, that robber is going to walk.''
- colloquial Of an object, to be stolen.
- Ex:''If you leave your wallet lying around, it's going to walk.''
- cricket (''of a batsman'') 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 knows he is out.
- To travel (a distance) by walking.
- Ex:''I walk two miles to school every day.''
- Ex:''The museum's not far from here – you can walk it.''
- To take for a walk.
- Ex:''I walk the dog every morning''
- baseball To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- Ex:''I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.''
- To waulk
- #To beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- A trip made by walking.
- Ex:''I take a walk every morning''
- A distance walked.
- Ex:''It's a long walk from my house to the library''
- A manner of walking.
- Ex:''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 instance of walking a batter.
- Ex:''The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone''
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