Stagger vs. Walk: What's the Difference?
Stagger and Walk Definitions
Stagger
To move or stand unsteadily, as if under a great weight; totter.
Walk
To move over a surface by taking steps with the feet at a pace slower than a run
A baby learning to walk.
A horse walking around a riding ring.
Stagger
To cause to totter, sway, or reel
The blow staggered him.
Walk
To go or travel on foot
Walked to the store.
Stagger
To astonish, shock, or overwhelm
A teacher staggered by a former student's accomplishments.
A company staggered by increases in energy costs.
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Walk
To go on foot for pleasure or exercise; stroll
Walked along the beach looking for shells.
Stagger
To place on or as if on alternating sides of a center line; set in a zigzag row or rows
Theater seats that were staggered for clear viewing.
Walk
To move in a manner suggestive of walking
Saw a woodpecker walking up the tree trunk.
Stagger
To arrange in alternating or overlapping time periods
Staggered the nurses' shifts.
Walk
To conduct oneself or behave in a particular manner; live
Walks in majesty and pride.
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Stagger
To arrange (the wings of a biplane) so that the leading edge of one wing is either ahead of or behind the leading edge of the other wing.
Walk
To appear as a supernatural being
The specter of famine walks through the land.
Stagger
(Sports) To arrange (the start of a race) with the starting point in the outside lanes progressively closer to the finish line so as to neutralize the advantage of competing in the shorter inside lanes.
Walk
To go out on strike.
Stagger
A tottering, swaying, or reeling motion.
Walk
To resign from one's job abruptly; quit.
Stagger
A staggered pattern, arrangement, or order.
Walk
To be acquitted
The alleged killer walked.
Stagger
Staggers (used with a sing. verb) Any of various diseases in animals, especially horses, cattle, or other domestic animals, that are characterized by a lack of coordination in moving, a staggering gait, and frequent falling.
Walk
(Baseball) To go to first base after the pitcher has thrown four pitches ruled as balls.
Stagger
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
The stagger of a drunken man
Walk
(Basketball) To move illegally while holding the ball; travel.
Stagger
(veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
Parasitic staggers
Apoplectic or sleepy staggers
Walk
(Obsolete) To be in constant motion.
Stagger
Bewilderment; perplexity.
Walk
To go or pass over, on, or through by walking
Walk the financial district of a city.
Stagger
The spacing out of various actions over time.
Walk
To bring to a specified condition by walking
They walked me to exhaustion.
Stagger
(motorsport) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
Walk
To cause to walk or proceed at a walk
Walk a horse uphill.
Stagger
(aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
Walk
To accompany in walking; escort on foot
Walk the children home.
Walked me down the hall.
Stagger
(UK) One who attends a stag night.
Walk
To traverse on foot in order to survey or measure; pace off
Walked the bounds of the property.
Stagger
To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
Walk
To move (a heavy or cumbersome object) in a manner suggestive of walking
Walked the bureau into the hall.
Stagger
(intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
She began to stagger across the room.
Walk
To allow (a batter) to go to first base by throwing four pitches ruled as balls.
Stagger
(transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
Walk
To cause (a run) to score by walking a batter. Often used with in.
Stagger
(intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
Walk
The gait of a human or other biped in which the feet are lifted alternately with one part of a foot always on the ground.
Stagger
Doubt, waver, be shocked.
Walk
The gait of a quadruped in which at least two feet are always touching the ground, especially the gait of a horse in which the feet touch the ground in the four-beat sequence of near hind foot, near forefoot, off hind foot, off forefoot.
Stagger
(intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
Walk
The self-controlled extravehicular movement in space of an astronaut.
Stagger
(transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
Walk
The act or an instance of walking, especially a stroll for pleasure or exercise.
Stagger
(transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
Walk
The rate at which one walks; a walking pace.
Stagger
To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
Walk
The characteristic way in which one walks.
Stagger
To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
Walk
The distance covered or to be covered in walking.
Stagger
To schedule in intervals or at different times.
We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.
Walk
A place, such as a sidewalk or promenade, on which one may walk.
Stagger
To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
Walk
A route or circuit particularly suitable for walking
One of the prettiest walks in the area.
Stagger
To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
Walk
(Baseball) A base on balls.
Stagger
To begin to doubt and waver in purpose; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.
Walk
(Basketball) The act or an instance of moving illegally with the ball; traveling.
Stagger
To cause to reel or totter.
That hand shall burn in never-quenching fireThat staggers thus my person.
Walk
A track event in which contestants compete in walking a specified distance.
Stagger
To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much staggered.
Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility.
Walk
Racewalking.
Stagger
To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
Walk
An enclosed area designated for the exercise or pasture of livestock.
Stagger
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; - often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
Walk
An arrangement of trees or shrubs planted in widely spaced rows.
Stagger
A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apopletic or sleepy staggers.
Walk
The space between such rows.
Stagger
Bewilderment; perplexity.
Walk
(intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
Stagger
An unsteady uneven gait
Walk
To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
Stagger
Walk as if unable to control one's movements;
The drunken man staggered into the room
Walk
Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
Stagger
Walk with great difficulty;
He staggered along in the heavy snow
Walk
To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
Stagger
To arrange in a systematic order;
Stagger the chairs in the lecture hall
Walk
(transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
I walk two miles to school every day.
The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
Stagger
Astound or overwhelm, as with shock;
She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake
Walk
(transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
I walk the dog every morning.
Will you walk me home?
Walk
To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
Walk
(transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.
Walk
(transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
Walk
(transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
I walked the streets aimlessly.
Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.
Walk
To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
Walk
To leave, resign.
If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
Walk
(transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
Walk
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
Walk
To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
Walk
(obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
Walk
To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
Walk
To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
Walk
A trip made by walking.
I take a walk every morning.
Walk
A distance walked.
It’s a long walk from my house to the library.
Walk
(sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
Walk
A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.
Walk
A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
Walk
(figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
Walk
(poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
Walk
(baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone.
Walk
In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
Walk
An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
Walk
(historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
Walk
(historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
Walk
(graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
Walk
(colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
Walk
A cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).
Walk
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.
At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
Walk
To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
Walk
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.
I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the deadMay walk again.
When was it she last walked?
Walk
To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
Do you think I'd walk in any plot?
I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
Walk
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.
Walk
To move off; to depart.
He will make their cows and garrans to walk.
Walk
To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
As we walk our earthly round.
Walk
To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog.
Walk
To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
Walk
To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk.
Walk
To move in a manner likened to walking.
She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force.
Walk
The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
Walk
The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
Walk
Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
Walk
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.
A woody mountain . . . with goodliest treesPlanted, with walks and bowers.
He had walk for a hundred sheep.
Amid the sound of steps that beatThe murmuring walks like rain.
Walk
A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
The mountains are his walks.
He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.
Walk
Conduct; course of action; behavior.
Walk
The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
Walk
In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
Walk
A place for keeping and training puppies.
Walk
The act of traveling by foot;
Walking is a healthy form of exercise
Walk
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls;
He worked the pitcher for a base on balls
Walk
Manner of walking;
He had a funny walk
Walk
The act of walking somewhere;
He took a walk after lunch
Walk
A path set aside for walking;
After the blizzard he shoveled the front walk
Walk
A slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
Walk
Careers in general;
It happens in all walks of life
Walk
Use one's feet to advance; advance by steps;
Walk, don't run!
We walked instead of driving
She walks with a slight limp
The patient cannot walk yet
Walk over to the cabinet
Walk
Traverse or cover by walking;
Walk the tightrope
Paul walked the streets of Damascus
She walks 3 miles every day
Walk
Accompany or escort;
I'll walk you to your car
Walk
Obtain a base on balls
Walk
Live or behave in a specified manner;
Walk in sadness
Walk
Take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure;
The lovers held hands while walking
We like to walk every Sunday
Walk
Give a base on balls to
Walk
Be or act in association with;
We must walk with our dispossessed brothers and sisters
Walk with God
Walk
Make walk;
He walks the horse up the mountain
Walk the dog twice a day
Walk
Walk at a pace;
The horsese walked across the meadow
