<B>walking, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do witha walk; going on foot. <BR> <I>Ex. a walking race or contest, a walking marathon.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>used mainly for walking. <BR> <I>Ex. walking shoes.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>that is pulled by a horse, mule, or other beast of burden, or a team, and has no seat for the driver, who walks behind. <BR> <I>Ex. a walking plow.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>that oscillates back and forth or up and down at its ends. <BR> <I>Ex. a walking beam.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>that moves or is able to be moved with a motion resembling walking. <BR> <I>Ex. a walking crane.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>in human form; living. <BR> <I>Ex. a walking dictionary, a walking library of contemporary fiction.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>the act of going on foot; taking a walk. <DD><B> b. </B>the manner or style in which a person walks. <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of a path or road for walking on. <BR> <I>Ex. easy walking, icy walking.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the sport of walking competitively for speed or against time, especially by the heel-and-toe method. </DL>
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<B>walking bass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a short series of notes persistently played in the bass, each note of which is usually followed by the note an octave higher, as used in playing boogie-woogie. </DL>
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<B>walking beam,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the beam (lever) of a steam engine. </DL>
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<B>walking catfish,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a catfish of Asia that can crawl over ground by means of its tail and spiny fins and live on land for extended periods by taking in air through its auxiliary breathing apparatus. <BR> <I>Ex. An example of an imported species that became a dangerous threat to the freshwater ecology of the subtropical United States ... is Clarias batrachus, the "walking catfish" (D. A. Brown).</I> </DL>
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<B>walking delegate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a union official charged with traveling about on union business, as to represent the union in negotiations or to inspect working conditions. </DL>
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<B>walking fern,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fern whose fronds taper into a slender prolongation that frequently roots at the tip. </DL>
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<B>walking fish,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of sea robin that moves along the sea-bottom by using its highly developed thoracic fin rays. </DL>
<B>walking leaf,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of certain insects that have a leaflike appearance; leaf insect. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=walking fern.</B> </DL>
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<B>walking papers,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a dismissal, as from a position. </DL>
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<B>walking shorts,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> shorts worn as for leisure or walking and similar to Bermuda shorts. </DL>
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<B>walking staff,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a staff or long stick which a person carries for support or aid in walking. </DL>
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<B>walking stick,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a stick used in walking; cane. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of a group of mostly wingless insects related to the grasshoppers, having a body like a stick or twig; stick insect. </DL>
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<B>walk-off</B> or <B>walkoff, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of walking off. <BR> <I>Ex. The walk-off is the bittersweet image by which, undoubtedly, Chaplin wishes to be remembered (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an abrupt departure; walk-out. <BR> <I>Ex. The 22 Springbok cricketers who held a two-minute walk-off at Newlands Ground ... in protest against apartheid (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>something that marks a departure or withdrawal; a farewell. <BR> <I>Ex. Mr. Ellington's part consisted of his signature theme, "Take the 'A' Train" ... and, as a walkoff, another Ellington signature, "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>walk-on, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a part in a play, movie, or other performance, in which the performer merely comes on and goes off the stage with little or no speaking. <DD><B> 2. </B>a performer having such a part. <BR> <I>Ex. I started as a walk-on, and later played principal roles and became stage manager (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S. Sports.) an athlete who is not drafted or awarded a scholarship. <BR> <I>Ex. Martinez has had to make do with New Mexico talent, including one player who did not even come to Highlands on a basketball scholarship--a category of athlete known in the trade as "walk-ons" (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of a walk-on. <BR> <I>Ex. a walk-on part.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>performing on the stage. <BR> <I>Ex. a walk-on humorist.</I> </DL>
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<B>walkout, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a strike of workers. <BR> <I>Ex. Striking employees ... will go back to work tomorrow, fifty-seven days after their walkout (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a sudden departure from a room, meeting, or the like, usually as a form of protest. <BR> <I>Ex. France staged the walkout ... to protest an Assembly decision to debate nationalist claims in French Algeria (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>walkover, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an easy victory; walkaway. <DD><B> 2. </B>a race in which the winner is predetermined either because only one horse starts and can thus walk the course to win or because all starters belong to one owner. </DL>
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<B>walk shorts,</B> <B>=walking shorts.</B></DL>
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<B>walk-through, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in the theater: <DD><B> a. </B>a rehearsal at which lines are read and accompanied by actions, such as walking and sitting. <DD><B> b. </B>an initial or perfunctory rehearsal. <DD><B> c. </B>a walk-on part. <DD><B> 2. </B>a television rehearsal without cameras, usually for the purpose of checking the cues. </DL>
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<B>walk-up, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an apartment house or building having no elevator. <DD><B> 2. </B>a room or apartment in such a building. <BR> <I>Ex. a third-floor walk-up.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a start in horse racing in which the jockeys ride the horses as close as possible to the starting line before the signal to race. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or in an apartment building having no elevator. <BR> <I>Ex. a walk-up apartment.</I> </DL>
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<B>walkway, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a structure for walking. <BR> <I>Ex. an overhead steel walkway.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a path; walk. <BR> <I>Ex. set well away from the road with private walkways.</I> </DL>
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<B>Walkyr, </B>noun. <B>=Valkyr.</B></DL>
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<B>Walkyrie, </B>noun. <B>=Valkyrie.</B></DL>
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<B>walky-talky, </B>noun, pl. <B>-talkies.</B> <B>=walkie-talkie.</B></DL>
