Engels Woord van de dag

walk

lopen

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Engels > Nederlands

walk

1. (ik) loop

2. (je) loopt

3. (we) lopen

4. lopen, wandelen

5. wandeling

Engels > Engels

walk

1. v. (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

To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.

2. v. (intransitive, colloquial, legal) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.

If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.

3. v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.

If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.

4. v. (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 believ

5. v. To travel (a distance) by walking.

I walk two miles to school every day. The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.

6. v. To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.

I walk the dog every morning. Will you walk me home?

7. v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.

8. v. To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.

I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.

9. v. To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.

10. v. To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).

I walked the streets aimlessly. Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.

11. v. (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.

12. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.

If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.

13. v. To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.

14. v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.

15. v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.

16. v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.

17. v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.

18. v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.

19. n. A trip made by walking.

I take a walk every morning

20. n. A distance walked.

It’s a long walk from my house to the library

21. n. (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.

22. n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.

The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year

23. n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.

24. n. (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.

25. n. (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".

The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone

26. n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.

27. n. (Caribbean, Guyana, Belize) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.Lise Winer (ed.), Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, p.(n

28. n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.

29. n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.

30. n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.

31. n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

32. n. (finance) A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).

Nederlands > Engels

lopen

1. v. to run, go fast on one's own legs

Ik ben naar de stad gelopen. - I ran to the city.

2. v. to run, cover distance, follow a track etc.

Hij heeft daar veel gelopen. - He did a lot of running there.

3. v. to walk, go somewhere regardless of speed

We kunnen naar de supermarkt lopen om boodschappen te doen. - We can walk to the supermarket to do some shopping.

Hij loopt elke ochtend naar zijn werk. - He walks to his workplace every morning.

Ik ben naar de stad gelopen. - I walked to the city.

4. v. to walk in general

De kinderen zijn buiten aan het lopen. - The children are outside walking.

Zij loopt graag in het park om van de natuur te genieten. - She likes to walk in the park to enjoy nature.

Hij heeft daar veel gelopen. - He did a lot of walking there.

5. v. to stretch, to run (to extend in space or through a range) (often of relatively elongated objects or constructs)

De rivier loopt dwars door de stad. - The river runs straight through the city.

De weg loopt helemaal tot aan de kust. - The road extends all the way to the coast.

6. v. to be current, activated, in progress

Het contract loopt binnenkort af. - The contract will be ending soon.

De aanbieding loopt nog tot het einde van de maand. - The offer is valid until the end of the month.

De rechtzaak tegen de crimineel loopt al een tijdje. - The lawsuit against the criminal has been in progress for a while already.

7. v. to be doing or functioning (well or poorly), to progress

De onderhandelingen lopen soepel. - The negotiations are progressing smoothly.

Het project loopt op schema. - The project is on track.

Zijn nieuwe project loopt goed. - His new project is doing well.

8. v. to lose liquid: drip, gush, leak

Er is een lek in de kraan en het water loopt langzaam weg. - There's a leak in the faucet, and the water is slowly dripping away.

Toen het vat viel, begon het bier eruit te lopen en maakte een grote puinhoop. - When the barrel fell, the beer started to gush out, creating a big mess.

9. v. (auxiliary) Forms a continuous aspect. Although it carries an implication of walking, this is vague and not emphasized.

Wat loop jij daar te doen? - What are you doing there?

10. n-m. A dry measure of content

11. n-m. An apparently larger land measure

12. n. plural of loop