What's the difference between sidewalk and walk?

Sidewalk


Definition:

  • (n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
  • (2) The way the city is set up with actual sidewalks (yes, there are many city streets in America that have no sidewalks!)
  • (3) As the sun rises over the precipitous streets of SanFrancisco's North Beach, just before 7am, there is a truly wonderful scene: corporation men spray the sidewalk while a gathering of bearded folk sip espressos at Caffe Trieste on the corner of Vallejo and Grant streets.
  • (4) Most injuries occurred indoors (47.0%), on the sidewalk or street (22.5%), or in the residential yard (13.0%).
  • (5) I was on my way to one of those exclusive parties when I saw Mom from the taxi window; she was on the sidewalk rummaging through the trash.
  • (6) Powell is seen pacing up and down the sidewalk outside a store from which he is alleged to have stolen soft drinks and donuts.
  • (7) The most coveted seats line the sidewalk, but the cavernous indoor space, lined with vintage beer posters and well-worn wooden alcoves, is an easy spot to settle in for the long haul.
  • (8) A video of his arrest captured by a nearby security camera and published by the local TV channel ABC 7 shows the police initially frisking him, then handcuffing him and finally piling on top of Hernandez as he lay on the sidewalk while apparently hitting him with batons.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This episode opens outside South Park’s election night viewing party, where we see residents stumbling drunkenly outside and puking on the sidewalk.
  • (10) Police have said that Brown assaulted Wilson after the officer stopped him and a friend and told them to walk on the sidewalk rather than in the road.
  • (11) Although hosepipes would not be banned outright, hosing sidewalks for cleanliness with potable water would be banned and only drip or micro-spray sprinklers allowed.
  • (12) In a statement circulated to member states of the UN , Russia accused the summit of leaving the views of UN member states “on the sidewalk” in “alarming circumstances”.
  • (13) There was a dispute with police, who said protesters were blocking the sidewalk.
  • (14) I was then dumped outside on to the pavement, which I resolutely refused to think of as a "sidewalk", and I walked back to my barren hotel, stared desperately into a minibar the size of a cattle ranch, and got the next flight home.
  • (15) But old habits die hard: you still hear the hair-raising sound of someone clearing their throat and projectile phlegm on the sidewalk.
  • (16) "If they did that, you could just roll up the sidewalks and shut Ilion down," said a local business owner, Jim Crossways.
  • (17) The author had disputed claims by police that a permit granted to the event – organised by the Huffington Post website on Tuesday night – allowed them to clear the sidewalk outside the venue in the Soho district of Manhattan.
  • (18) Then, the family alleges, the senior of the two officers, Detective Aldridge, “slammed her to the sidewalk and pushed her face into the pavement.
  • (19) There’s the constant traffic belching fumes that linger in the humid air; the uneven sidewalks that have a pesky habit of vanishing halfway along the street; the sheer distances to cover in this elongated, ever-expanding metropolis.
  • (20) Given that several players not at the press conference were seen on nearby sidewalks at that time it is likely this might have been their only opportunity to see their children.

Walk


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
  • (v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
  • (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
  • (v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
  • (v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
  • (v. i.) To move off; to depart.
  • (v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
  • (v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
  • (v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
  • (n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
  • (n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
  • (n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
  • (n.) That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
  • (n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
  • (n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior.
  • (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (2) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (3) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
  • (4) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
  • (5) step lengths, stride times, double-support times, cadence and walking speed.
  • (6) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (7) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
  • (8) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
  • (9) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
  • (10) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
  • (11) He was unable to walk alone at 2 years of age and developed seizures and intermittent ataxia at 5 years of age.
  • (12) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
  • (13) The ensemble electromyogram (EMG) patterns associated with different walking cadences were examined in 11 normal subjects.
  • (14) Walking for pleasure was generally the most common physical activity for both sexes throughout the year.
  • (15) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
  • (16) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
  • (17) Delabole residents Susan and John Theobald said: “We’ve always enjoyed being around the turbines and have often walked right up to them with our dogs.
  • (18) By the isolation of overlapping cosmid clones and 'chromosome walking' studies from the H-2Kk gene, we have obtained cosmid clones encoding the H-2Klk gene from two separate cosmid libraries.
  • (19) All horses underwent a gradually increasing exercise programme consisting of walking and trotting beginning one week after the first injection and continuing for 24 weeks.
  • (20) You couldn’t walk into the ward in your own clothes.