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walk-on
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Princeton's WordNet
walk-onadjective
plays a small part in a dramatic production
nonspeaking, walk-onadjective
not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines
"had a nonspeaking role in the play"
Wiktionary
walk-onnoun
A student athlete that wants to try out for a college sports/athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited.
walk-onnoun
An actor of a small (or "bit") part in a theatrical production or film, often without speaking lines.
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walk-on
A walk-on refers to a member of a sports team, particularly at a college or university, who was not actively recruited or offered an athletic scholarship before joining. However, they are not precluded from receiving a scholarship once on the team. This term can also apply to theatre, where it refers to a person with a small non-speaking role, or one who appears on stage without having any lines.
Wikidata
Walk-on
The term walk-on is used in sports, particularly American college athletics, to describe an athlete who becomes part of a team without being actively recruited beforehand or awarded an athletic scholarship. This results in the differentiation between "walk-on" players and "scholarship" players.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of walk-on in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of walk-on in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of walk-on in a Sentence
Don’t have them negotiating for us, walk on this deal.
I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that
When we approach difficult path in life to achieve certain goals, it is hard to walk on that path. Keep walking though. Keep trying with the winner’s attitude. Success is inevitable!
I can’t even fill up a cup, it’s horrible. I cannot go out by myself. I need someone to walk on my bad side.
I can’t walk on the beach with them … I just can’t do it. And I just hope they’re going to be OK. It’s hard. They’re precious.
Translations for walk-on
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- статистBulgarian
- Komparse, Statist, StatistinGerman
- [[sivuosa, sivuosaFinnish
- figuration, figurant, comparseFrench
- statiszta, statisztaszerepHungarian
- figurante, figurazioneItalian
- figurant, nevenrol, nevenfiguurDutch
- statistNorwegian
- statystaPolish
- mergi peRomanian
- стати́ст, [[немой, стати́сткаRussian
- figüranTurkish
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