Definition von a-walk im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Spanish walk
- A movement in which the horse raises the forelegs off the ground in an extreme upward and out manner, with much expression
- cake walk
- Something extremely easy
- cake walk
- From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number that number wins a cake
- cake walk
- A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century
- cake-walk
- Alternative spelling of cake walk
- cock of the walk
- A proud or conceited person
And he rolled the dames under and over.
- farmer's walk
- A strength and endurance event in which a competitor carries a heavy weight in each hand over a set distance
- in a walk
- Easily; without difficulty
- intentional walk
- To intentionally walk; to give a batter an [[#Noun|intentional walk]]
- intentional walk
- The intentional pitching of four balls (bad pitches), or of a fourth ball, in order to give the batter a walk (for example, so as to avoid the risk of a home run)
Jones was given an intentional walk in order to face Smith.
- perp walk
- The intentional public display before news cameras of someone in police custody, especially someone famous or notorious, for the purpose of satisfying public interest, demonstrating the authorities' effectiveness, or shaming the person
FBI agents gave former WorldCom executives Scott Sullivan and David Myers the same star treatment, parading the handcuffed quarry in an early-morning perp walk and prompting Sullivan's lawyer to complain about the unfair taint of the current political climate..
- power walk
- To walk very fast for exercise
- power-walk
- To walk very fast for exercise
- race walk
- A racewalking race
- race-walk
- to compete in race walking
- random walk
- A stochastic path consisting of a series of sequential movements, the direction (and sometime length) of which is chosen at random
- space walk
- Any activity performed by an astronaut outside of a space vehicle in space
- take a long walk on a short pier
- Used to tell someone to go away, or that their request will not be met
- walk
- Of an object, to be stolen
If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
- walk
- To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking
I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
- walk
- 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
- walk
- To leave, resign
If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
- walk
- To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls
- walk
- To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement)
Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.
- 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
- walk
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking
The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.
- walk
- To travel (a distance) by walking
The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
- walk
- To take for a walk or accompany on a walk
Will you walk me home?.
- walk
- To go free, particularly when actually guilty
If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
- walk
- 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
- walk
- A trip made by walking
I take a walk every morning.
- walk
- 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.
- walk
- A distance walked
It’s a long walk from my house to the library.
- walk
- To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks
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.
- walk
- To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt
- walk
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail
- walk a tightrope
- To undertake a precarious course of action
The company constantly walked a tightrope between operating on little money and filling orders quickly.
- walk all over someone
- To easily beat a competitor in a contest; to win without much effort
- walk all over someone
- To dominate a person or a group; to have a person take a submissive or inferior role
- walk and chew gum at the same time
- To do something very easy
- walk around
- To walk with no real planned destination, but to just walk, to meander "around"
- walk away
- To survive a challenging or dangerous situation without harm
The football team walked away with a 1-0 victory.
- walk away
- To withdraw from a problematic situation
Company lawyers told him to walk away from the deal.
- walk away
- To defeat someone or achieve something
- walk away from
- To escape (a mishap, accident, etc.) with minimal or no injury
This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h. and walked away from the wreck muttering: I thought I had stopped..
- walk away from
- To abandon or leave; to shun
He decided to walk away from his job after expressing much dissatisfaction with his boss.
- walk back
- To withdraw or back-pedal on a statement or promise; retract
Did Obama walk back his support of Cordoba House? As you know, the Internets are alive with the claim that Obama has now walked back his support of Cordoba House, and I've gotten tons of emails telling me that my earlier praise of the speech is no longer operative. But did he really walk back what he said last night?.
- walk in on
- To enter suddenly or unexpectedly while something is happening; to intrude or interrupt by entering
He accidentally walked in on me while I was undressing.
- walk in the park
- Something easy or pleasant, especially by comparison to something
High school was difficult, but it was a walk in the park compared to college engineering classes.
- walk in the snow
- suicide, assisted suicide, or muder by exposure
The mother-in-law Powtee is put out on the solid sea ice to die, only to be rescued soon after.
- walk in the snow
- An occasion when a momentous career decision is made, especially a decision to resign or retire
Even in defeat, Ignatieff could not shake even one more Trudeau comparison. Trudeau's historic long walk in the snow came in February 1984.
- walk into
- To collide with
Watch where you're going. You nearly walked into that man.
- walk into
- To fall into (a trap)
You really walked into that one, didn't you?.
- walk it off
- To deal with an negative emotional event without complaint; to take it like a man
After Emma broke up with him to date a football player, Steve made a valiant effort to just walk it off, but felt he was dying on the inside.
- walk it off
- To walk or pace in order to relieve a pain or cramp
After six miles into the marathon, I had a stabbing pain in my side, but I was able to walk it off and complete the race.
- walk of life
- An occupation, role, social class, or lifestyle
Folks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor.
- walk off
- To flee or abandon
- walk off
- To recover from (a minor injury) by walking around
- walk on eggshells
- To be careful and sensitive, in handling very sensitive matters
- walk on eggshells
- To be overly careful in dealing with a person or situation because they get angry or offended very easily; to try very hard not to upset someone or something
- walk out
- to stage a walkout or strike
- walk out
- to leave suddenly, especially as a form of protest
- walk out on
- to abandon or desert someone, especially a spouse
- walk over
- To easily defeat
- walk over
- To dominate, treat (someone) as inferior
- walk policies
- plural form of walk policy
- walk policy
- A pre-arranged list of compensation that will be offered to clients whose reserved room is not available at time of check-in
- walk tall
- Alternative form of stand tall
- walk the beat
- To patrol on the job, especially as an officer or guard
- walk the dog
- Take a dog for a walk
- walk the dog
- perform a trick where the yo-yo rolls on the ground, attached to the string
- walk the dog
- Perform a trick where the ball rolls down the shaft, and then is caught in the head of the lacrosse stick
- walk the line
- To mark or secure a boundary by walking along it
And set the wall between us once again.
- walk the line
- To participate in the procession at a graduation ceremony; to graduate
Montano's family, including her parents, sons and fiance, Thomas Gallegos, planned to be on hand to see her walk the line and be honored by the UNM-VC Advisory Board, faculty and staff and her fellow associate degree graduates.
- walk the line
- To behave in an authorized or socially accepted manner, especially as prescribed by law or morality; to exercise self-control
Because you're mine, I walk the line.
- walk the line
- To maintain an intermediate position between contrasting choices, opinions, etc
I began to walk the line between work and play.
- walk the plank
- On a pirate ship, to walk off a plank of wood into the ocean. Used as a method of killing
- walk the plank
- To be forced to resign from a position in an organization
After I was caught selling company secrets, I'm not surprised they made me walk the plank.
- walk the talk
- To do what one said one could do, or would do, not just making empty promises
- walk the walk
- Act competently, like an expert
When it comes to reducing nuclear emissions, he talks the talk, but it remains to be seen if he can walk the walk.
- walk through
- To rehearse
- walk through
- To perform something with ease
- walk through
- To explain someone something, step by step
- walk-in
- that people may enter without a prior appointment
- walk-in
- that walks into an embassy etc unannounced
- walk-in
- a walk-in defector etc
- walk-in
- not a drive-in
- walk-in
- A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another
- walk-in
- entered without an intervening passage
- walk-in
- a walk-in room or closet
- walk-in
- that gains access through unlocked doors
- walk-off
- That drives in a run that ends a game
Scott Podsednik hit the twelfth walk-off home run in World Series history on October 23rd, 2005.
- walk-off
- A walkout
- walk-off
- A prisoner who escapes custody without violence by taking advantage of the opportunity provided by negligence or distraction of guards
- walk-off
- Any event or action in the bottom of the last inning of a game that scores a run and thereby ends the game with a victory to the team at bat
- walk-on
- A student athlete that wants to try out for a college sports/athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited
- walk-on
- An actor of a small (or "bit") part in a theatrical production or film, often without speaking lines
- walk-on
- Such a part in a play or film. Usually as walk-on role or walk-on part, sometimes walking part
- walk-over
- A horserace in which only a single horse competes
- walk-over
- An uncontested or very easy victory
- walk-up
- an informal visit to a control tower by a pilot, typically used as part of pilot training
- walk-up
- reached by stairs rather than an elevator
- walk-up
- such an apartment or block
- walk-up
- containing such flats
- walk-up
- for which no appointment is necessary
- whistle walk
- The path slaves took to deliver food from the kitchen building of a plantation to the main dining room. Slaves were expected to whistle during this walk in order to assure their masters that they were not eating the food
- widow's walk
- A raised platform on the roof of a house, especially one on a coastal house originally used for viewing the arrival of shipping
- walk into
- If you walk into an unpleasant situation, you become involved in it without expecting to, especially because you have been careless. He's walking into a situation that he absolutely can't control
- walk into
- {f} reprimand, scold; beat, flog, whip
- walk into
- If you walk into a job, you manage to get it very easily. When I left school, I could walk into any job
- by-walk
- {n} a private path or road
- walk
- {v} to go by leisurely steps, to appear
- walk
- {n} the act of walking, gait, path to walk in, in W. Indies, a plantation
- Hollywood Walk of Fame
- The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a pavement along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but fictional characters honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for their contributions to the entertainment industry. The first star, awarded on February 9, 1960, went to Joanne Woodward
- Walk of Fame
- The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a pavement along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but fictional characters honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for their contributions to the entertainment industry. The first star, awarded on February 9, 1960, went to Joanne Woodward
- random walk
- (İstatistik) A series of sequential movements in which the direction and size of each move is randomly determined
- random walk hypothesis
- (Finans) The random walk hypothesis is a financial theory stating that stock market prices evolve according to a random walk and thus the prices of the stock market cannot be predicted. It has been described as 'jibing' with the efficient market hypothesis. Investors, economists, and other financial behaviorists have historically accepted the random walk hypothesis. They have run several tests and continue to believe that stock prices are completely random because of the efficiency of the market
- walk down
- Walk along, walk on. "We walked down the road to the lake. It was a nice day for a walk."
- walk down the aisle
- (deyim) Get married
- walk in on
- (deyim) Enter somewhere unexpectedly and see something
He WALKED IN ON them planning to sack him.
- walk matilda
- (deyim) Waltz (or walk) Matilda: carry such a bundle
- walk out on someone
- Desert, abandon, leave, betray, throw over
