Dagens Engelsk ord

walk

gå

Definitioner

Engelsk > Engelsk

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).

Svenska > Engelsk

gå

1. v. go, walk, stroll

Gå hem! - Go home!

2. v. go, leave

3. v. go; to be given or allotted

4. v. go; to extend between two points

5. v. go; lead to

6. v. go; elapse

7. v. go; to start

Klara, färdiga, gå! - Get ready, get set, go!

8. v. (with till) go; resort to

Måste ni gå till rätten med tvisten? - Do you have to go to court with the dispute?

9. v. go; change from one value to another

Priserna har gått upp igen. - The prices have gone up again.

10. v. (with till) go; to be spent

Pengarna gick alla till öl. - All the money went on beer.

11. v. go; to be sold

12. v. go; to fit or be compatible

De där färgerna går inte ihop. - Those colors don't go together.

13. v. go; to be expressed or composed in a certain way

Jag vet inte riktigt hur sången går sedan. - I don't really know how the song goes after this.

14. v. go; attend

gå i skolan - go to school

gå på dans - go to a dance

15. v. go; to be in a state continuously

Ingen ska behöva gå hungrig. - Nobody should have to go hungry.

16. v. go; circulate (about rumors, stories and contagious diseases)

17. v. go; to stop functioning (about a mechanical or electric system)

18. v. to cease flowing (about a flow of water or electricity)

19. v. go; to proceed; work out, behave as anticipated (about a solution of a problem)

Det går inte (att) göra så här - It's not possible to do like this

Det där går inte! - That won't work!

20. v. (about a mechanism or machine) go; work, run

Min klocka går inte - My clock doesn't go

21. v. (about a card in a cardgame) go; be played

Där gick ruterässet, så nu är min kung högst i den färgen. - There went the ace of diamonds, so now my king is the highest in that suit.

22. v. (colloquial) be allowed (as being deemed practically possible)

Går det att jag tar med mig några kompisar hem efter skolan idag? - May I bring home a couple of friends after school today?

23. v. (with "med") be doing

Hur går det med dina läxor? Är du klar med dem än? - How's your homework doing? Are you yet finished with it?

24. v. (colloquial in some expressions) orgasm, come

Det gick för henne - She orgasmed

Uttal

Exempelmeningar

My father is taking a walk in the park.
    Min far är på promenad i parken.
Can we go for a walk?
    Kan vi gå och ta en promenad?
He could not walk any further.
    Han kunde inte gå längre.
We went for a walk.
    Vi tog en promenad.
He went for a walk.
    Han tog en promenad.

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