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Tread (verb)
To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
“He trod back and forth wearily.”
“Don’t tread on the lawn.”
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Tread (verb)
To step or walk upon.
“Actors tread the boards.”
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Tread (verb)
To beat or press with the feet.
“to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path”
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Tread (verb)
To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
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Tread (verb)
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
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Tread (verb)
To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
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Tread (verb)
To copulate with.
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Tread (noun)
A step taken with the foot.
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Tread (noun)
A manner of stepping.
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Tread (noun)
The sound made when someone or something is walking.
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Tread (noun)
A way; a track or path.
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Tread (noun)
The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
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Tread (noun)
The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction. from 1900s
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Tread (noun)
The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
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Tread (noun)
The chalaza of a bird’s egg; the treadle.
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Tread (noun)
The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
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Tread (noun)
The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
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Tread (noun)
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
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Walk (verb)
To run.
“To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.”
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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.”
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Walk (verb)
Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
“If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.”
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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.
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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.”
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Walk (verb)
To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
“I walk the dog every morning.”
“Will you walk me home?”
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Walk (verb)
To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
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Walk (verb)
To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
“I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.”
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Walk (verb)
To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
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Walk (verb)
To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
“I walked the streets aimlessly.”
“Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.”
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Walk (verb)
To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
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Walk (verb)
To leave, resign.
“If we don’t offer him more money he’ll walk.”
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Walk (verb)
To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
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Walk (verb)
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
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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.
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Walk (verb)
To be in motion; to act; to move.
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Walk (verb)
To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
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Walk (verb)
To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
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Walk (noun)
A trip made by walking.
“I take a walk every morning”
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Walk (noun)
A distance walked.
“It’s a long walk from my house to the library”
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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.
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Walk (noun)
A manner of walking; a person’s style of walking.
“The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year”
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Walk (noun)
A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
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Walk (noun)
A situation where all players raising), once they get their cards.
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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”
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Walk (noun)
In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
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Walk (noun)
An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
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Walk (noun)
A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
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Walk (noun)
An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
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Walk (noun)
A vertices and edges, where each edge’s endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
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Walk (noun)
Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
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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).
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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”
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Walk (verb)
go on foot for recreation and exercise
“you can walk in 21,000 acres of moorland”
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Walk (verb)
travel over (a route or area) on foot
“the police department has encouraged officers to walk the beat”
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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”
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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”
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Walk (verb)
(of a quadruped) proceed with the slowest gait, always having at least two feet on the ground at once.
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Walk (verb)
ride (a horse) at the slowest pace
“he walked his horse towards her”
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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”
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Walk (verb)
take (a dog) out for exercise
“she spotted a man walking his retriever”
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Walk (verb)
train and look after (a hound puppy).
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Walk (verb)
(of a thing) go missing or be stolen
“customers have to leave a deposit to ensure the beer glasses don’t walk”
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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”
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Walk (verb)
be released from suspicion or from a charge
“had any of the others come clean during the trial, he might have walked”
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Walk (verb)
(of a batsman) leave the field without waiting to be given out by the umpire.
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Walk (verb)
reach first base automatically after not hitting at four balls pitched outside the strike zone.
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Walk (verb)
allow or enable (a batter) to walk.
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Walk (verb)
(of a ghost) be visible; appear
“the ghosts of Bannockburn walked abroad”
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Walk (verb)
live or behave in a particular way
“walk humbly with your God”
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Walk (noun)
an act of travelling or an outing on foot
“he was too restless to sleep, so he went out for a walk”
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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”
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Walk (noun)
a route recommended or marked out for recreational walking
“there are picnic places and waymarked walks”
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Walk (noun)
a path
“the street lamps illuminated the riverside walk”
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Walk (noun)
the round followed by a postman
“the first job is to sort the mail into routes or walks”
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Walk (noun)
an unhurried rate of movement on foot
“they crossed the field at a leisurely walk”
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Walk (noun)
the slowest gait of an animal
“she reined her horse to a slow walk”
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Walk (noun)
a person’s manner of walking
“the spring was back in his walk”
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Walk (noun)
a part of a forest under one keeper.
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Walk (noun)
the place where a gamecock is kept.
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Walk (noun)
a farm where a hound puppy is trained.
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Walk (noun)
an instance of reaching first base automatically after not hitting at four balls pitched outside the strike zone.
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Walk (noun)
a flock of snipe.