What's the difference between pedestrian and walker?

Pedestrian


Definition:

  • (a.) Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
  • (n.) A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
  • (2) Extraperitoneal hemorrhage, associated with a fracture of the pelvis, is a major cause of death in pedestrian accidents.
  • (3) Pedestrian fatality rates are highest for boys and for children in the youngest age groups.
  • (4) A hundred fatalities is 100 too many, but that total is a 10% decrease on the previous five-year average and is a quarter of pedestrian and a third of motorcycle fatality numbers for the same period.
  • (5) If you stand on the main pedestrian drag, Ferhadija, and look east, you could be in Istanbul or Cairo.
  • (6) Sporadic and pedestrian studies cannot explain why a necessary and sufficient relationship should exist between the presence of a cleft and the dependent measures used.
  • (7) We studied all traffic accidents to pedestrians under age 15 which occurred on the Island of Montreal during an eighteen months period.
  • (8) Scores of sopping-wet pedestrians have complained to police after being splashed when motorists drove through puddles, figures show.
  • (9) The most common causes of injury were motorcycle accidents (56.3%) and street accidents with pedestrian injury (29.47%).
  • (10) There has also been an emphasis since 2008 for elevated pedestrian walkways, or “skywalks”.
  • (11) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
  • (12) Cyclists are just fast-moving pedestrians; so all attempts at mating them with cars or other forms of transport will fail.
  • (13) Miliband's pedestrian, drooping delivery did no justice to the ambition of his argument, leaving the packed conference hall sometimes flat.
  • (14) "After several refusals Mr Mitchell got off his bike and walked to the pedestrian gate with me after I again offered to open that for him," a male colleague of the officer wrote.
  • (15) We conclude that pedestrian victims are commonly intoxicated and that chest and spine injuries are more common in this population.
  • (16) Of these, 213 were Hartford residents resulting in an annual age-specific pedestrian collision rate of 22.8 per 10,000 persons.
  • (17) We have to acknowledge that it's extremely hard to build a regular city from scratch.” Furthermore, some experts say that certified green buildings and pedestrian-friendly roads are a worthless patch for China’s environmental woes, not a solution.
  • (18) Good design improves the behaviour of cyclists If you want to see improved behaviour among cyclists, just build best-practice infrastructure for them – separate bikes from pedestrians and cars and give them their own space in the urban landscape.
  • (19) The mayor championed some of his early successes, including the implementation of the Vision Zero pedestrian safety plan – although there have been questions after jaywalkers were targeted last month – and reminding the audience that his administration had recently settled in the Floyd v City of New York case, allowing major reforms to the controversial policy to move forward.
  • (20) Pedestrian injuries occurred in 81 of the 142 census tracts in the city.

Walker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who walks; a pedestrian.
  • (n.) That with which one walks; a foot.
  • (n.) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
  • (v. t.) A fuller of cloth.
  • (v. t.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has refused to say whether he believes in the theory of evolution, arguing that it is “a question a politician shouldn’t be involved in one way or the other”.
  • (2) However, the walker 256 intramuscular tumor did not respond to ARA-C capsules implanted, and the animals died at the same rate as the controls, with large ulcerated tumor masses and some metastasis.
  • (3) The major RNA species present in the purified mitochondrial fraction of the Walker carcinoma were investigated in order to determine which of them are located in the mitochondria and coded by the organelle DNA.
  • (4) "We must be clear that there can be no letup in our efforts to seek ways to remove Bill Walker from parliament," Rennie said.
  • (5) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
  • (6) Donald Trump and the 'war on women': GOP confident mogul will lose the battle Read more Governor Scott Walker, who recently signed a restrictive 20-week abortion ban in Wisconsin , also opposes abortion without exceptions and has said voters agree, though polls tell a different story.
  • (7) To mark World Aids Day, THT is opening a charity shop in Soho Estates’ Walkers Court development in central Soho.
  • (8) The activity of T4 deiodinase was significantly induced in hyperthyroid controls (180%) as well as in hyperthyroid Walker rats (155%) in spite of low serum concentrations of T4 and T3.
  • (9) After 14 minutes, Rose got in behind the Hull defence to lay on the opening goal for Eriksen while the second followed an incision up the other flank from Walker.
  • (10) A nitroreductase enzyme has been isolated from Walker 256 rat carcinoma cells which can convert 5-(aziridin-1-yl)-2,4-dinitrobenzamide (CB 1954) to a cytotoxic DNA interstrand crosslinking agent by reduction of its 4-nitro group to the corresponding hydroxylamino species (Roberts JJ et al., Biochem Biophys Res Commun 140: 1073-1078, 1986; Knox RJ et al., Biochem Pharmacol 37: 4661-4669, 1988).
  • (11) Walker added: "Having worked and lived in Manchester there is no fear factor for my wife and family moving north.
  • (12) In a 3-year-old child, a rare combination of a Dandy-Walker syndrome, a primitive trigeminal artery and a facial haemangioma was found.
  • (13) Defenders: Leighton Baines, Gary Cahill, Ashley Cole, Phil Jagielka, Glen Johnson, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling, Kyle Walker.
  • (14) DT diaphorase, purified to homogeneity from human Hep G2 cells, did metabolize CB 1954 to this 4-hydroxylamino product, but the rate of CB 1954 reduction and thus production of the cytotoxic product, was much lower than that of purified Walker enzyme (ratio of Kcat = 6.4).
  • (15) Photograph: Shaun Walker for the Guardian “You ask us why we killed peaceful people?
  • (16) Official papers released by the National Archives show that the "wets" – notably Jim Prior, Peter Walker, Ian Gilmour, Mark Carlisle, Lord Soames and Francis Pym – were able to demonstrate that a majority of the cabinet rejected as unnecessarily harsh Sir Geoffrey Howe's demands for further public spending cuts and tax cuts.
  • (17) But we can see in five years’ time it [becoming] best practice.” Drinks giant Diageo is a major investor in sensory marketing, launching multi-sensory spaces and apps for brands including Guinness, the Singleton and Johnnie Walker.
  • (18) 7.13pm BST The starting XIs England: Hart (Oxford University), Walker (Barnes), Cahill (Harrow Chequers), Jagielka (Cambridge University), Baines (1st Surrey Rifles), Wilshere (Old Harrovians), Gerrard (Wanderers), Walcott (Swifts), Cleverley (Old Carthusians), Welbeck (Royal Engineers), Rooney (Old Etonians).
  • (19) For me, personally, it’s been hard – that result settling in,” Walker says.
  • (20) Scott Walker says building Canada border wall is a 'legitimate issue' Read more The governor, who is running well behind among the 17 contenders in the Republican White House race, sought to draw a distinction between his proposal and what he called Donald Trump’s “simplistic” idea on how to deal with an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US.