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Walk Away

Definition: Walk Away

Walk Away

Verb

1. Go away from; "The actor walked off before he got his cue"; "I got annoyed and just walked off".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Walk Away

Synonym: walk off (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Walk Away

Specialty definitions using "walk away": BackghostPreacher. (references)

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Modern Usage: Walk Away

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Don't you walk away from me, you chalk-faced whore! (Chained Heat; writing credit: Aaron Butler; Paul Nicholas)

I just gotta I gotta walk away from this. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

There are some things a man just can't walk away from. (Stagecoach; writing credit: Ernest Haycox; Dudley Nichols)

The difference between you and all the victims is you can walk away. (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; writing credit: Ervin Iunapuu)

Well, he didn't just get up and walk away! (The Howling; writing credit: Gary Brandner; John Sayles)

Lyrics

I'd take what I wanted and just walk away, but I never made it to the door. (Love in the First Degree; performing artist: Alabama; writing credit: Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois)

Just walk away Renee, (Walk Away Renee; performing artist: The Left Bank)

When you should turn and walk away (Caught Up in You; performing artist: 38 Special)

I won't walk away again (Circle In The Sand; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

We walk away, maybe then shake hands (But Anyway; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

Movie/TV Titles

Walk Away the Pounds with Leslie Sansone: Super Fat Burning (2001)

Song Titles

WALK AWAY RENEE (performing artist: Four Tops )

Don't Walk Away (performing artist: Jade)

Walk Away Renee (performing artist: The Left Bank)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Walk Away

DomainTitle

Books

  • Approach an Advertising Agency: And Walk Away With the Job You Want (Here's How) (reference)

  • Braver Men Walk Away (Ulverscroft General Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas": A Study Guide from Gale's "Short Stories for Students" [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Mastering Joker Wild Video Poker: How to Play As an Expert and Walk Away a Winner (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Walk Away the Pounds 2-Pack: Super Fat Burning + Get Up and Get Started High Calorie Burn (reference)

  • Leslie Sansone: Walk Away the Pounds - High Calorie Burn (reference)

  • Leslie Sansone - Walk Away the Pounds - Super Fat Burning (reference)

  • Walk Away the Pounds for Abs [with belt] (reference)

  • Leslie Sansone: Walk Away the Pounds - Get Up and Get Started (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Walk Away

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Walk Away

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Happy to walk away Triangulation party of Norman Sylar.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

CAMP BUTMIR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFPN) -- Tech. Sgt. James Monk (left) and Master Sgt. Scott Wagers walk away from a helicopter landing pad here as a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk rises into the air behind them. Wagers and Scott are two aerial-qualified comb.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Walk Away

AuthorQuotation

Michael Korda

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Walk Away

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

I rush in, and save one of the children, and then walk away, leaving the other to drown.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Walk Away

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Until recently, modern medicine has had very little power over this disease, but the world of stroke medicine is changing and new and better therapies are being developed every day. Today, some people who have a stroke can walk away from the attack with no or few disabilities if they are treated promptly. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Walk Away

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001People who bring children into this world cannot and must not walk away from them.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Walk Away

Expressions using "walk away": walk away from walk away with. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Walk Away

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  walk away the pound

514

  walk away

79

  leslie sansone walk away the pound

29

  walk away renee

21

  walk away the pound for abs

17

  ben harper walk away

15

  don t walk away

12

  walk away the pound by leslie sansone

2
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Modern Translations: Walk Away

Language Translations for "walk away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

отвеждам (carry, carry off, derive, get away, lead, lead off, offset, pipe, sluice, take, take off), отивам си (be off, buzz, clear off, exit, get away, go, go away, go off, leave, off it, part, pass, piss off, pop off, pull away, push along, quit, remove, run along, sheer off, shunt, take off). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

走出 (to move away from, to walk away from). (various references)

   

Czech

  

odejít (come away, come off, depart, go away, go off, go out, leave, make one's exit, make tracks for, move away, move off, quit, retire, stir, to leave, vacate, walk off). (various references)

   

French

  

quitter. (various references)

   

German

  

davon gehen. (various references)

   

Italian

  

allontanarsi (depart, go away, leave, recede, roll away, stray, walk off, withdraw). (various references)

   

Manx

  

shooyl roish (walk along, walk off), goll roish (antecede, betake, buzz off, clear out, go ahead, go before, go off, make away, move on, nip off, pass on, pop off, precede). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alkway awayay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odšetati (stroll away). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

robar (abstract, burglarize, burgle, draw, pinch, pluck, remove, Rob, scrounge, steal, thieve, twist, walk off), partir (abandon, break, call away, chapter, chop, cleave, come off, crack, cut, depart, district, divide, dole out, drive away, drive off, fly off, go, go alone, go away, leaving, set off, set out, share, split, split up, start off, start out, tear, tear up, throw over), negarse (balk, baulk, decline), llevarse (bear away, bear off, blow away, bring away, carry away, carry off, drive away, get, take away, take off, walk off, wash, win), irse caminando (get along, get out, go down, lap over, walk off), copar (cut off, surround, sweep the board, walk off), alejarse (bear off, draw away, estrange, flounce away, move away, move off, pass over, recede, walk off). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yürüyüp gitmek, uzaklaşmak (become distant, draw away, grow away from, move away, recede, retire, walk off, wander, wander away, wander off), terketmek (cede, desert, desolate, discard, disuse, ditch, expose, fall off, flee, forsake, jack in, jilt, leave, relinquish, revolt from, throw over, void, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), geride bırakmak (distance, have the drop on, leave astern, leave behind, outdistance, outpace, outstrip, set back, shoot ahead of). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

відходити (backtrack, be off, belie, branch out, depart, digress, move back, move off, pull off, pull out, stand out, trek, walk off, withdraw, yield), обігнати (outclass, outdistance, outdrive, outfoot, outrun, outsail), поцупити (nab, nail, nibble, nip, pilfer, pull, scrounge, snitch, walk off, win). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Walk Away

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: walkaway.

Words within the letters "a-a-a-k-l-w-w-y"

-1 letter: walkway.

-3 letters: alway.

-4 letters: alky, away, laky, walk, waly, wawl, yawl.

-5 letters: aal, ala, awa, awl, kay, law, lay, waw, way, yak, yaw.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-k-l-w-w-y"
 

+1 letter: walkaways.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Walk Away


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

57 61 6C 6B      41 77 61 79

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

    

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

01010111 01100001 01101100 01101011 00100000 01000001 01110111 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#108 &#107 &#32 &#65 &#119 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 006C 006B      0041 0077 0061 0079

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

57677877235896791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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