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Walk About

Definition: Walk About

Walk About

Verb

1. 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 About

Synonyms: perambulate (v), walk around (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Walk About

English words defined with "walk about": ambulant, ambulate, ambulatoryshleptraipse, Trape. (references)
Specialty definitions using "walk about": ChalksDawnPeripateticsTO SHAMBLE. (references)
Etymologies containing "walk about": Gadwallsomnambulation. (references)

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Modern Usage: Walk About

DomainUsage

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.

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Modern Translations: Walk About

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 

  

(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

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

прогулюватися (promenade, ride out, saunter, stroll). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ymrodio (perambulate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Walk About

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Walk About


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 61 6C 6B      41 62 6F 75 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01101100 01101011 00100000 01000001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#108 &#107 &#32 &#65 &#98 &#111 &#117 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 006C 006B      0041 0062 006F 0075 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5767787723568818786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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