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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

walk in en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To come without an appointment to a place that would normally require one.
    • If you walk in, you're going to have to wait at least an hour.
    • You can't just walk in, Mam. You have to make an appointment.' 2001, Pat Barker, The Man Who Wasn't There:
  2. (transitive) To step to the rack again with after having stepped away in order not to hit it during execution of the exercise.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, in.
    • There, characteristically, he refused to be carried on a stretcher, saying he was too heavy for nurses. He walked in with their support. 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
walks in Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
walked in Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
walked in Tense=Past lexicographic
walking in Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Antonyms

walk out

Deriveds

walk-in · walk-in

Translations (1)

es ir/venir sin cita (appointment)