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Has your little boy learned to walk yet?
I like to walk around the lake at sunset.
It takes me 25 minutes to walk to work.
Greg walked slowly towards her, smiling.
Howard walked in with two men I'd never seen before.
As we walked along she talked about her plans.
I walked across the noisy playground to the main entrance.
Jamie often walks around the block to clear his head.
He walked slowly and unsteadily down the hall.
This is the British English definition of walk. View American English definition of walk.
a part of an atom that moves around the nucleus (=centre) and has a negative electrical charge
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