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Definition: Walk About |
Walk AboutVerb1. Walk with no particular goal; "we were walking around in the garden". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Walk AboutSynonyms: perambulate (v), walk around (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Walk About |
| English words defined with "walk about": ambulant, ambulate, ambulatory ♦ shlep ♦ traipse, Trape. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "walk about": Chalks ♦ Dawn ♦ Peripatetics ♦ TO SHAMBLE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "walk about": Gadwall ♦ somnambulation. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Nothing, I repeat, nothing gives a student the right to walk about at night. (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "walk about"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | странстване, обиколка (ambit, circuit, girth, leg, round, round trip, roundabout, swing, tour, touring, turn), пътуване (itineracy, itinerancy, itineration, journey, locomotion, ride, run, travel, traveling, travelling, wayfaring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 轉 (to circle about, to convey, to forward, to revolve, to shift, to transfer, to turn, to walk about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | obcházet (bypass, circumvent, get round, go round, walk around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σουλατσάρω (amble, lounge about, saunter, stroll). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gentayangan (roam about, wander about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 飛び歩く (to walk about), 立ち回る (to conduct oneself, to turn up, to walk about), 歩き回る (to pace around, to walk about, to walk to and fro). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たちまわる (to conduct oneself, to turn up, to walk about), あるきまわる (to pace around, to walk about, to walk to and fro), とびあるく (to walk about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shooyl mygeayrt (walk round). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alkway aboutay pasearse (drive, foresight, go for a walk, mosey, parade up and down, promenade, ramble, saunter, stroke, stroll, walk, walk around, walking, wander), ir y venir (bustle, come and go, move about, move around, shuttle). (various references) kolaçan etmek (prowl, pry about, spy out), gezinmek (bat around, get around, go for a stroll, go for a walk, hang about, hang around, mosey, perambulate, promenade, roam, rove, rove about, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, walk around, wander, wander about), gezdirmek (give a ride, promenade, show around, take walk for a walk, trot round, walk, walk around), dolaştırmak (circulate, dash, embrangle, entangle, entwine, foul, foul up, hand on, intwine, kink, knot, Ravel, take for a walk, tangle, trot round, walk, walk around, walk out), dolaşmak (air oneself, bat around, be afloat, become tangled, browse around, circuit, circulate, float, flow, go about, go around, go for a jaunt, go for a stroll, go for a walk, go on a jaunt, hike, itinerate, jaunt, jauntiness, kink, knot, look round, mat, mosey, perambulate, range, roam, rove, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, travel, walk, walk around, wander). (various references) прогулюватися (promenade, ride out, saunter, stroll). (various references) ymrodio (perambulate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: walkabout. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-k-l-o-t-u-w" | |
-2 letters: outbawl, outwalk, walkout. | |
-3 letters: ablaut, outlaw, taluka. | |
-4 letters: about, baulk, bloat, koala, tabla, taluk, tubal. | |
-5 letters: abut, alba, alow, alto, auto, awol, baal, balk, bawl, blat, blaw, blot, blow, boat, bola, bolt, bota, bout, bowl, bulk, kata, kola, lota, lout, tabu, taka, tala, talk, tola, tolu, tuba, walk, wauk, waul. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-k-l-o-t-u-w" | |
+1 letter: walkabouts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 6C 6B      41 62 6F 75 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01101100 01101011 00100000 01000001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a l k   A b o u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 006C 006B      0041 0062 006F 0075 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5767787723568818786 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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