Tread vs. Walk: What's the Difference?

Tread (verb)
To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
“He trod back and forth wearily.”
“Don’t tread on the lawn.”
Tread (verb)
To step or walk upon.
“Actors tread the boards.”
Tread (verb)
To beat or press with the feet.
“to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path”
Tread (verb)
To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
Tread (verb)
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
Tread (verb)
To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
Tread (verb)
To copulate with.
Tread (noun)
A step taken with the foot.
Tread (noun)
A manner of stepping.
Tread (noun)
The sound made when someone or something is walking.
Tread (noun)
A way; a track or path.
Tread (noun)
The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
Tread (noun)
The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction. from 1900s
Tread (noun)
The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
Tread (noun)
The chalaza of a bird’s egg; the treadle.
Tread (noun)
The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
Tread (noun)
The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
Tread (noun)
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.

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

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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