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- (intransitive) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To travel with purpose; usually a significant or tedious amount.
- (transitive, colloquial) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort
- (transitive, colloquial) to walk about or over (a place) aimlessly or insouciantly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
- walk or tramp about
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- flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
- any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
- (Canada, US) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
- A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
- A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).
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- walk with great difficulty
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- to arrange in a systematic order
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
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- an unsteady uneven gait
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
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- walk heavily
- crush or grind with a heavy instrument
- reveal clearly as having a certain character
- form or cut out with a mold, form, or die
- raise in a relief
- to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something
- destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot
- treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
- affix a stamp to
- (intransitive) To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- (transitive, figurative) To mark; to impress.
- (transitive) To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
- (transitive) To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- (transitive) To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
- (transitive) To apply postage stamps to.
- (transitive) To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
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- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid
- a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving
- machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made
- a block or die used to imprint a mark or design
- a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents
- a type or class
- a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid
- A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other dues such as tax or licence fees.
- A device for imprinting designs.
- An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
- (slang, figuratively) A tattoo.
- A kind of heavy pestle, raised by water or steam power, for crushing ores.
- A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.
- (slang) A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
- An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.
- Cast; form; character; distinguishing mark or sign; evidence.
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- walk heavily
- (transitive) To stamp (one’s foot or feet).
- (transitive, gaming) To completely defeat or overwhelm an enemy, to win by a large lead over someone
- (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
- (ambitransitive) To trample heavily.
- (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
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- walk heavily
- cause to be perplexed or confounded
- travel through a district and make political speeches
- remove tree stumps from
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
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- (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
- the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- (slang, humorous) A leg.
verb
- To walk with heavy footsteps.
- To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
- travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
- (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
- (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To scram; begone.
- (intransitive) To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
- To hitchhike.
- (transitive) To travel or wander through.
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- cross on foot
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
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- a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
- Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
- A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
- (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond.
- (in apposition) Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
- Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
- Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
- (derogatory) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
- a heavy footfall
- a vagrant
- a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
- a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
- a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
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- (countable) A long step in walking.
- significant progress (especially in the phrase ‘make strides’)
- the distance covered by a step
- a step in walking or running
- (countable) The distance covered by a long step.
- (countable, computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- (uncountable, music) A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
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- (transitive, British, regional) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- (transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.
- (intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
- (transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
- (intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
- (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
- censure severely or angrily
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
noun
- A walking trip.
- (Australia) A period, often extended, during which an Aboriginal person left a station or settlement to travel on country, typically seasonally or for traditional cultural reasons; a journey by foot taken by an Aboriginal as a temporary withdrawal from white society.
- An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.
- (British) A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally.
- a walking trip or tour
- a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally
- nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine
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- A trip made by walking.
- A distance walked.
- the act of walking somewhere
- manner of walking
- (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- (sports) 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.
- (baseball) 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".
- (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
- (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
- a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
- careers in general
- the act of traveling by foot
- a path set aside for walking
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
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- make walk
- traverse or cover by walking
- (machining, intransitive, of a tool, such as a drill bit or reamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- (informal, transitive) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
- (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
- (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) 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.
- (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
- (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- (transitive) To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- (paintball) To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
- use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
- take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
- be or act in association with
- obtain a base on balls
- walk at a pace
- give a base on balls to
- live or behave in a specified manner
- accompany or escort
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- walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise
- (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
- To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
- (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
- (ambitransitive) To take a long walk (on something) for pleasure or exercise.
- To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
- increase
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- A walk to and fro.
- taking a short walk out and back
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- a favor for someone
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
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- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- get by buying and selling
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- alter the functioning or setting of
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- undergo a change or development
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
noun
- A journey so walked.
- (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
- A political rally or parade.
- A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.
- Steady forward movement or progression.
- Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
- (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
- district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area
- the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)
- a procession of people walking together
- a steady advance
- genre of music written for marching
verb
- (figurative) To make steady progress.
- (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers
- (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
- To go to war; to make military advances.
- (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
- force to march
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- walk ostentatiously
- cause to march or go at a marching pace
- march in a procession
- march in protest; take part in a demonstration
- walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride
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verb
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- (transitive) To trudge over or through.
- (transitive) To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
- (intransitive) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
verb
- (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
- (ambitransitive) To gather in dense groups.
- (transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
- (ambitransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
- come together as in a cluster or flock
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster
- make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
- walk clumsily
noun
- A small group of trees or plants.
- A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
- The compressed clay of coal strata.
- (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
- A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
- A dull thud.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
- a compact mass
verb
- walk by dragging one's feet
- fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
- (agriculture) To work the soil surface for weeding, etc.
- (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.
- (slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
- (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
noun
- an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
- a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
- disorderly fighting
- A type of hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling, with a sharp blade parallel with the worked surface; an instance of this type.
- A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
- (slang) Poverty; struggle.
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- walk by dragging one's feet
- move about, move back and forth
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- To change; modify the order of something.
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
- (ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- (ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
noun
- walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
- the act of mixing cards haphazardly
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
- (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
- The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
verb
- walk
- To walk.
- pay for something
- add a column of numbers
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- (Ireland, transitive) To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
noun
- travel by walking
- lowest support of a structure
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- the lower part of anything
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic foot, a unit of volume.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
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- someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
- someone who moves slowly
- someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
- A machine for extruding soap, margarine, etc. through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
- A person who, or animal that, plods.
- A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.
noun
- someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
- someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
- a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches
- (cricket) A cricketer who attempts to score runs fast by attacking every ball that can be hit.
- (UK, Cambridge University slang) An inferior racing boat.
- (colloquial) One who hits hard; a slugger.
noun
- wandering from the main path of a journey
- a message that departs from the main subject
- a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
- (generally uncountable) The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect.
- An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
- (astronomy, physics) An elongation, a deflection or deviation from a mean position or expected path.
noun
- wandering from the main path of a journey
- a journey taken for pleasure
- (Australia) A field trip.
- (aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
- A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
- (phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
- A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
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noun
- someone who walks with long stiff strides
- someone who stalks game
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
- A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.
- Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting.
- (horse racing) A horse that tends to stay just behind the leaders in a race.
- A person who engages in stalking, i.e., quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game.
- Any bird that walks with a stalking motion.
noun
- A tortuous or winding journey.
- (mathematics) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
- (architecture) A decorative border consisting of a repeated linear motif, particularly of intersecting perpendicular lines.
- (often plural) One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
- Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border; fretwork.
- (geography) One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
- an aimless amble on a winding course
- a bend or curve, as in a stream or river
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verb
noun
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- To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, across, or against.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
- (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
- (transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
- (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
- make an error
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- encounter by chance
verb
noun
- a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria
- Any of about 100–170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
verb
- walk unsteadily, with short steps
- swim like a dog in shallow water
- give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
- stir with a paddle
- play in or as if in water, as of small children
- propel with a paddle
- To tread upon; to trample.
- (intransitive) To toddle.
- (intransitive, British) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- (transitive) To spank with a paddle.
- (intransitive) To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
- (transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
- To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
- (intransitive) To dog paddle in water.
noun
- an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board
- small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
- a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
- a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat
- A blade of a waterwheel.
- A paddlewheel.
- In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
- (table tennis) A broad, flat device used in striking the ball, analogous to a racket in tennis.
- A flat board with a number of holes or indentations, used to carry small alcoholic drinks such as shots.
- The use of a paddle to propel a boat; a session of paddling.
- A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
- A single-bladed version is typically used on canoes and some other small boats.
- A double-bladed version with blades at each end of the shaft is used for kayaking.
- A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
- (sports, uncountable) Alternative form of padel.
- A flipper in a pinball machine.
- A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
- (slang) A person's hand.
- (medicine) A flap of attached skin that has been cut away from a wound.
- (British) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- A handheld electrode used for defibrillation or cardioversion.
- A broad, flat spanking implement.
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noun
verb
- (intransitive) To trudge, walk heavily.
- (ambitransitive) To wrestle.
- (transitive, dialectal) To distress, overtire.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To hurry along; gad about.
- (intransitive) To sprawl with the arms and legs; kick or fidget with the feet.
- (intransitive) To toss or tumble oneself about; act violently, rage, throw a fit.
- (intransitive) To struggle, toil, strive, labour.
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verb
- To tread, as a path.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
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verb
noun
- a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries
- (law) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
- The district thus inspected.
- (rare) A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.
noun
- a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year
- a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
- a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance
- a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle
- (formal) A prom (dance).
- A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
- A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
- A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
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verb
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- One who strolls.
- Men's semiformal daytime dress comprising a grey or black single- or double-breasted coat, grey striped or checked formal trousers, a grey or silver necktie, and a grey, black or buff waistcoat.
- A vagrant.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.
- a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
- someone who walks at a leisurely pace
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verb
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- (intransitive) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To travel with purpose; usually a significant or tedious amount.
- (transitive, colloquial) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort
- (transitive, colloquial) to walk about or over (a place) aimlessly or insouciantly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
- walk or tramp about
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verb
- (transitive, British, regional) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- (transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.
- (intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
- (transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
- (intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
- (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
- censure severely or angrily
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
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noun
- (countable) A long step in walking.
- significant progress (especially in the phrase ‘make strides’)
- the distance covered by a step
- a step in walking or running
- (countable) The distance covered by a long step.
- (countable, computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- (uncountable, music) A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
noun
- A walking trip.
- (Australia) A period, often extended, during which an Aboriginal person left a station or settlement to travel on country, typically seasonally or for traditional cultural reasons; a journey by foot taken by an Aboriginal as a temporary withdrawal from white society.
- An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.
- (British) A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally.
- a walking trip or tour
- a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally
- nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine
noun
- A trip made by walking.
- A distance walked.
- the act of walking somewhere
- manner of walking
- (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- (sports) 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.
- (baseball) 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".
- (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
- (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
- a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
- careers in general
- the act of traveling by foot
- a path set aside for walking
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
verb
- make walk
- traverse or cover by walking
- (machining, intransitive, of a tool, such as a drill bit or reamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- (informal, transitive) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
- (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
- (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) 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.
- (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
- (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- (transitive) To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- (paintball) To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
- use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
- take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
- be or act in association with
- obtain a base on balls
- walk at a pace
- give a base on balls to
- live or behave in a specified manner
- accompany or escort
noun
verb
- walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise
- (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
- To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
- (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
- (ambitransitive) To take a long walk (on something) for pleasure or exercise.
- To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
- increase
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noun
- A walk to and fro.
- taking a short walk out and back
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- a favor for someone
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
verb
- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- get by buying and selling
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- alter the functioning or setting of
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- undergo a change or development
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
noun
- A journey so walked.
- (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
- A political rally or parade.
- A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.
- Steady forward movement or progression.
- Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
- (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
- district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area
- the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)
- a procession of people walking together
- a steady advance
- genre of music written for marching
verb
- (figurative) To make steady progress.
- (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers
- (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
- To go to war; to make military advances.
- (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
- force to march
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- walk ostentatiously
- cause to march or go at a marching pace
- march in a procession
- march in protest; take part in a demonstration
- walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride
noun
verb
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- (transitive) To trudge over or through.
- (transitive) To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
- (intransitive) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
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verb
noun
- someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
- someone who moves slowly
- someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
- A machine for extruding soap, margarine, etc. through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
- A person who, or animal that, plods.
- A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.
noun
- someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
- someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
- a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches
- (cricket) A cricketer who attempts to score runs fast by attacking every ball that can be hit.
- (UK, Cambridge University slang) An inferior racing boat.
- (colloquial) One who hits hard; a slugger.
noun
- wandering from the main path of a journey
- a message that departs from the main subject
- a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
- (generally uncountable) The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect.
- An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
- (astronomy, physics) An elongation, a deflection or deviation from a mean position or expected path.
noun
- wandering from the main path of a journey
- a journey taken for pleasure
- (Australia) A field trip.
- (aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
- A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
- (phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
- A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
verb
noun
- someone who walks with long stiff strides
- someone who stalks game
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
- A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.
- Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting.
- (horse racing) A horse that tends to stay just behind the leaders in a race.
- A person who engages in stalking, i.e., quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game.
- Any bird that walks with a stalking motion.
noun
- A tortuous or winding journey.
- (mathematics) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
- (architecture) A decorative border consisting of a repeated linear motif, particularly of intersecting perpendicular lines.
- (often plural) One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
- Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border; fretwork.
- (geography) One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
- an aimless amble on a winding course
- a bend or curve, as in a stream or river
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verb
verb
- walk
- To walk.
- pay for something
- add a column of numbers
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- (Ireland, transitive) To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
noun
- travel by walking
- lowest support of a structure
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- the lower part of anything
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic foot, a unit of volume.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
noun
verb
- To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, across, or against.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
- (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
- (transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
- (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
- make an error
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- encounter by chance
verb
- To walk with heavy footsteps.
- To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
- travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
- (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
- (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To scram; begone.
- (intransitive) To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
- To hitchhike.
- (transitive) To travel or wander through.
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- cross on foot
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
noun
- a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
- Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
- A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
- (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond.
- (in apposition) Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
- Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
- Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
- (derogatory) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
- a heavy footfall
- a vagrant
- a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
- a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
- a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
noun
verb
noun
- a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries
- (law) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
- The district thus inspected.
- (rare) A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.
noun
- a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year
- a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
- a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance
- a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle
- (formal) A prom (dance).
- A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
- A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
- A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- One who strolls.
- Men's semiformal daytime dress comprising a grey or black single- or double-breasted coat, grey striped or checked formal trousers, a grey or silver necktie, and a grey, black or buff waistcoat.
- A vagrant.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.
- a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
- someone who walks at a leisurely pace
verb
noun
- flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
- any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
- (Canada, US) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
- A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
- A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).
verb
- walk with great difficulty
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- to arrange in a systematic order
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
noun
- an unsteady uneven gait
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
verb
- walk heavily
- crush or grind with a heavy instrument
- reveal clearly as having a certain character
- form or cut out with a mold, form, or die
- raise in a relief
- to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something
- destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot
- treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
- affix a stamp to
- (intransitive) To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- (transitive, figurative) To mark; to impress.
- (transitive) To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
- (transitive) To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- (transitive) To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
- (transitive) To apply postage stamps to.
- (transitive) To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
noun
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid
- a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving
- machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made
- a block or die used to imprint a mark or design
- a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents
- a type or class
- a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid
- A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other dues such as tax or licence fees.
- A device for imprinting designs.
- An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
- (slang, figuratively) A tattoo.
- A kind of heavy pestle, raised by water or steam power, for crushing ores.
- A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.
- (slang) A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
- An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.
- Cast; form; character; distinguishing mark or sign; evidence.
verb
- walk heavily
- (transitive) To stamp (one’s foot or feet).
- (transitive, gaming) To completely defeat or overwhelm an enemy, to win by a large lead over someone
- (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
- (ambitransitive) To trample heavily.
- (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
noun
verb
- walk heavily
- cause to be perplexed or confounded
- travel through a district and make political speeches
- remove tree stumps from
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
noun
- (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
- the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- (slang, humorous) A leg.
verb
- To walk with heavy footsteps.
- To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
- travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
- (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
- (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To scram; begone.
- (intransitive) To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
- To hitchhike.
- (transitive) To travel or wander through.
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- cross on foot
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
noun
- a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
- Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
- A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
- (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond.
- (in apposition) Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
- Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
- Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
- (derogatory) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
- a heavy footfall
- a vagrant
- a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
- a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
- a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
verb
noun
- (countable) A long step in walking.
- significant progress (especially in the phrase ‘make strides’)
- the distance covered by a step
- a step in walking or running
- (countable) The distance covered by a long step.
- (countable, computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- (uncountable, music) A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
verb
- (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
- (ambitransitive) To gather in dense groups.
- (transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
- (ambitransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
- come together as in a cluster or flock
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster
- make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
- walk clumsily
noun
- A small group of trees or plants.
- A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
- The compressed clay of coal strata.
- (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
- A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
- A dull thud.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
- a compact mass
verb
- walk by dragging one's feet
- fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
- (agriculture) To work the soil surface for weeding, etc.
- (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.
- (slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
- (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
noun
- an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
- a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
- disorderly fighting
- A type of hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling, with a sharp blade parallel with the worked surface; an instance of this type.
- A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
- (slang) Poverty; struggle.
verb
noun
verb
- walk by dragging one's feet
- move about, move back and forth
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- To change; modify the order of something.
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
- (ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- (ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
noun
- walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
- the act of mixing cards haphazardly
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
- (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
- The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
verb
- walk
- To walk.
- pay for something
- add a column of numbers
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- (Ireland, transitive) To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
noun
- travel by walking
- lowest support of a structure
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- the lower part of anything
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic foot, a unit of volume.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
verb
noun
noun
verb
- walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise
- (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
- To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
- (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
- (ambitransitive) To take a long walk (on something) for pleasure or exercise.
- To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
- increase
intj
noun
- A trip made by walking.
- A distance walked.
- the act of walking somewhere
- manner of walking
- (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- (sports) 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.
- (baseball) 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".
- (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
- (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
- a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
- careers in general
- the act of traveling by foot
- a path set aside for walking
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
verb
- make walk
- traverse or cover by walking
- (machining, intransitive, of a tool, such as a drill bit or reamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- (informal, transitive) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
- (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
- (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) 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.
- (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
- (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- (transitive) To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- (paintball) To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
- use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
- take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
- be or act in association with
- obtain a base on balls
- walk at a pace
- give a base on balls to
- live or behave in a specified manner
- accompany or escort
verb
noun
- a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria
- Any of about 100–170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
verb
- walk unsteadily, with short steps
- swim like a dog in shallow water
- give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
- stir with a paddle
- play in or as if in water, as of small children
- propel with a paddle
- To tread upon; to trample.
- (intransitive) To toddle.
- (intransitive, British) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- (transitive) To spank with a paddle.
- (intransitive) To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
- (transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
- To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
- (intransitive) To dog paddle in water.
noun
- an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board
- small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
- a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
- a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat
- A blade of a waterwheel.
- A paddlewheel.
- In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
- (table tennis) A broad, flat device used in striking the ball, analogous to a racket in tennis.
- A flat board with a number of holes or indentations, used to carry small alcoholic drinks such as shots.
- The use of a paddle to propel a boat; a session of paddling.
- A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
- A single-bladed version is typically used on canoes and some other small boats.
- A double-bladed version with blades at each end of the shaft is used for kayaking.
- A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
- (sports, uncountable) Alternative form of padel.
- A flipper in a pinball machine.
- A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
- (slang) A person's hand.
- (medicine) A flap of attached skin that has been cut away from a wound.
- (British) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- A handheld electrode used for defibrillation or cardioversion.
- A broad, flat spanking implement.
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To trudge, walk heavily.
- (ambitransitive) To wrestle.
- (transitive, dialectal) To distress, overtire.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To hurry along; gad about.
- (intransitive) To sprawl with the arms and legs; kick or fidget with the feet.
- (intransitive) To toss or tumble oneself about; act violently, rage, throw a fit.
- (intransitive) To struggle, toil, strive, labour.
noun
verb
- To tread, as a path.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music