Alternately vs. Walk

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  • Alternately (adverb)

    In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

  • Alternately (adverb)

    By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.

  • Alternately (adverb)

    Alternatively.

  • Walk (verb)

    To run.

    “To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.”

  • Walk (verb)

    To “walk free”, i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.

    “If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.”

  • Walk (verb)

    Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.

    “If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.”

  • Walk (verb)

    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.

  • Walk (verb)

    To travel (a distance) by walking.

    “I walk two miles to school every day.”

    “The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.”

  • Walk (verb)

    To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.

    “I walk the dog every morning.”

    “Will you walk me home?”

  • Walk (verb)

    To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.

  • Walk (verb)

    To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.

    “I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.”

  • Walk (verb)

    To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.

  • Walk (verb)

    To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).

    “I walked the streets aimlessly.”

    “Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.”

  • Walk (verb)

    To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.

  • Walk (verb)

    To leave, resign.

    “If we don’t offer him more money he’ll walk.”

  • Walk (verb)

    To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.

  • Walk (verb)

    To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.

  • Walk (verb)

    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.

  • Walk (verb)

    To be in motion; to act; to move.

  • Walk (verb)

    To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.

  • Walk (verb)

    To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.

  • Walk (noun)

    A trip made by walking.

    “I take a walk every morning”

  • Walk (noun)

    A distance walked.

    “It’s a long walk from my house to the library”

  • Walk (noun)

    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 (noun)

    A manner of walking; a person’s style of walking.

    “The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year”

  • Walk (noun)

    A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.

  • Walk (noun)

    A situation where all players raising), once they get their cards.

  • Walk (noun)

    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 (noun)

    In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.

  • Walk (noun)

    An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.

  • Walk (noun)

    A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.

  • Walk (noun)

    An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.

  • Walk (noun)

    A vertices and edges, where each edge’s endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.

  • Walk (noun)

    Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

  • Walk (noun)

    A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be “walked” (hand-delivered by messengers).

Wiktionary
  • Alternately (adverb)

    with two things continually following and succeeded by each other; one after the other

    “she sounds alternately confused and confident”

  • Alternately (adverb)

    as another option or possibility; alternatively

    “alternately, slice the cake in two when completely cooled and spread raspberry jam between the two halves”

  • Walk (verb)

    move at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, never having both feet off the ground at once

    “she turned and walked a few paces”

    “I walked across the lawn”

  • Walk (verb)

    go on foot for recreation and exercise

    “you can walk in 21,000 acres of moorland”

  • Walk (verb)

    travel over (a route or area) on foot

    “the police department has encouraged officers to walk the beat”

  • Walk (verb)

    used to suggest that someone has achieved a state or position easily or undeservedly

    “no one has the right to walk straight into a well-paid job for life”

  • Walk (verb)

    move in a similar way to walking, but using one’s hands or a support such as stilts

    “he could walk on his hands carrying a plate on one foot”

  • Walk (verb)

    (of a quadruped) proceed with the slowest gait, always having at least two feet on the ground at once.

  • Walk (verb)

    ride (a horse) at the slowest pace

    “he walked his horse towards her”

  • Walk (verb)

    guide, accompany, or escort (someone) on foot

    “he walked her home to her door”

    “a meeting to walk parents through the complaint process”

  • Walk (verb)

    take (a dog) out for exercise

    “she spotted a man walking his retriever”

  • Walk (verb)

    train and look after (a hound puppy).

  • Walk (verb)

    (of a thing) go missing or be stolen

    “customers have to leave a deposit to ensure the beer glasses don’t walk”

  • Walk (verb)

    abandon or suddenly withdraw from a job or commitment

    “he was in place as the male lead but walked at the eleventh hour”

  • Walk (verb)

    be released from suspicion or from a charge

    “had any of the others come clean during the trial, he might have walked”

  • Walk (verb)

    (of a batsman) leave the field without waiting to be given out by the umpire.

  • Walk (verb)

    reach first base automatically after not hitting at four balls pitched outside the strike zone.

  • Walk (verb)

    allow or enable (a batter) to walk.

  • Walk (verb)

    (of a ghost) be visible; appear

    “the ghosts of Bannockburn walked abroad”

  • Walk (verb)

    live or behave in a particular way

    “walk humbly with your God”

  • Walk (noun)

    an act of travelling or an outing on foot

    “he was too restless to sleep, so he went out for a walk”

  • Walk (noun)

    used to indicate the time that it will take to reach a place on foot or the distance to be travelled

    “the library is within five minutes’ walk”

  • Walk (noun)

    a route recommended or marked out for recreational walking

    “there are picnic places and waymarked walks”

  • Walk (noun)

    a path

    “the street lamps illuminated the riverside walk”

  • Walk (noun)

    the round followed by a postman

    “the first job is to sort the mail into routes or walks”

  • Walk (noun)

    an unhurried rate of movement on foot

    “they crossed the field at a leisurely walk”

  • Walk (noun)

    the slowest gait of an animal

    “she reined her horse to a slow walk”

  • Walk (noun)

    a person’s manner of walking

    “the spring was back in his walk”

  • Walk (noun)

    a part of a forest under one keeper.

  • Walk (noun)

    the place where a gamecock is kept.

  • Walk (noun)

    a farm where a hound puppy is trained.

  • Walk (noun)

    an instance of reaching first base automatically after not hitting at four balls pitched outside the strike zone.

  • Walk (noun)

    a flock of snipe.

Oxford Dictionary

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