Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Able to walk despite injury or illness.
- adj. Regarded as having the capabilities or qualities of a specified object: a teacher who is a walking dictionary.
- adj. Used, intended, or suitable for walking: walking clothes; a walking trail; walking distance.
- adj. Marked by the act of walking: a walking trip.
- adj. Guided by a person who walks alongside. Used of a machine or farming tool.
- n. The action of one that walks.
- n. The state of the surface on which one walks: The walking was treacherous after the ice storm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Proceeding at a walk; proceeding on foot; not standing still.
- n. The act or process of fulling cloth.
- n. A mode or manner of behaving or living.
- n. The act of one who or that which walks.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of walk.
- n. Gerund of Xyzy}}.
- adj. Incarnate as a human; living.
- adj. Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
- adj. Characterized by or suitable for walking.
GNU Webster's 1913
- a. & n. from walk, v.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of traveling by foot
- adj. close enough to be walked to
Examples
“I don't need a car for those purposes, and the walking is a great boon to elder-health.”
“Her name was Ruby Gravano, a member of that group of marginal miscreants I had known for years in New Orleans, what I called the walking wounded, whose criminal deeds became a kind of incremental suicide, as though they were doing penance for sins committed in a previous incarnation.”
“Since the MLS prohibits using the word 'walking' with marketing, Walk Score offers a nondiscriminatory interpretation, provided by a third party, of where the property is located in relation to stores, restaurants, public transportation," said Francine Di Palma, an agent with Pacific Union in San Francisco.”
“Especially when the one doing the walking is a pretentious asshole of an Archangel.”
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“Many home buyers work at the university or at downtown businesses, because both are in walking distance.”
“Monona Terrace is just two blocks away from the Capitol and within walking distance of the campus.”
“Well if you kept going left you eventually wound up at a dead end within walking distance of a good sized creek that flowed into the Chena river.”
“The reason that the stand get so little use is the amount of time involved in walking to it.”
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“I hear that the Provo River is within walking distance of campus.”
“(It is quite literally within walking distance of the store).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘walking’.
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
walking, bicycle, bus, train, motorcycle, airplane, car, truck, segway, limousine, roller coaster, wheelbarrow and 119 more...
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Monty Python words
inquisition, spanish, spam, parrot, silly, walking, yes it is, no it isn't, argument, clinic, ping!, sperm and 24 more...
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Stuffie: Dead
Stuff that's dead.
last, right, straight, reckoning, ahead, duck, heat, end, beat, walking, pool, grateful and 52 more...
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A list of bear words, mostly real tending fair to fanciful after midday.
grizzly, honey, gummi, teddy, ursidae, polar, caniform, giant panda, dwarf panda, spectacled, short-faced, kodiak and 61 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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quotato's Words
prospicience, appoggiatura, actually, thrum, nisus, univocal, eschatology, concupiscible, penury, psychedelic, vapid, braggadocio and 107 more...
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chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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brilliant, delicious, lovely, ever, with, present, here, light, radiant, bright, beauty, live and 209 more...
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activities, objects, people, food
friends, trying on dresses, agatha christie, clarinet, yaya dacosta, bangs, flirting, walking, gerunds, big band, antm, film soundtracks and 78 more...


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