English Online Dictionary. What means walking? What does walking mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɔːkɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɔkɪŋ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈwɑkɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: walk‧ing
- Rhymes: -ɔːkɪŋ
Etymology 1
From Middle English walkynge, walkinge, walkinde, walkende, walkand, walkande, from Old English wealcende (attested as Old English wealcendes), from Proto-Germanic *walkandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to roll, trample, walk”), equivalent to walk + -ing.
Verb
walking
- present participle and gerund of walk
Adjective
walking (not comparable)
- Incarnate as a human; living.
- Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.
- Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.
- Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
- Characterized by or suitable for walking.
- a walking tour
- good walking shoes
- Heavily characterized by some given quality.
- She was a walking example of how fitness training can take you a long way.
- (music) Being a style of bass accompaniment or line, common in Baroque music (1600–1750) and 20th century jazz, blues and rockabilly, which creates a feeling of regular quarter note movement, akin to the regular alternation of feet while walking.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English walkyng, walkinge, equivalent to walk + -ing.
Noun
walking (countable and uncountable, plural walkings)
- verbal noun of walk.
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See also
- shanks' mare
- shanks' pony