"walk-in" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: Deverbal from walk in. Etymology templates: {{deverbal|en|walk in}} Deverbal from walk in Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} walk-in (not comparable)
  1. That may be walked into:
    (of a place) That people may enter without a prior appointment.
    Tags: not-comparable, of a place Translations (without appointments before): без уговорка (bez ugovorka) (Bulgarian), tanpa janji temu (Malay)
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-adj-OcWrObp5 Disambiguation of 'without appointments before': 47 10 10 32 1
  2. That may be walked into:
    (US, of a facility) Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters.
    Tags: US, not-comparable, of a facility
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-adj-X3JOF~m3 Categories (other): American English, English deverbals, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English deverbals: 8 12 8 8 3 8 8 8 8 7 9 7 7 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 7 12 7 7 4 6 6 6 7 7 8 8 14
  3. That may be walked into:
    (of a closet, pantry, refrigerator, freezer, etc) Spacious enough to walk into.
    Tags: not-comparable, of a closet Translations (spacious enough to walk into): begehbar (German)
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-adj-W8HqcR94 Disambiguation of 'spacious enough to walk into': 11 11 53 24 1
  4. That may be walked into:
    Designed to be possible to walk into (without stepping over a ledge, etc).
    Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-adj-CJka30an
  5. (of a thief or theft) Gaining access through unlocked doors. Tags: not-comparable, of a thief or theft
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-adj-1O1V2EJM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: walk-in closet, walk-up

Noun

Forms: walk-ins [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from walk in. Etymology templates: {{deverbal|en|walk in}} Deverbal from walk in Head templates: {{en-noun}} walk-in (plural walk-ins)
  1. A facility or room which may be walked into:
    A relatively small room (such as a closet or pantry) or refrigerator or freezer that is spacious enough to walk into.
    Categories (topical): Rooms
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-noun-Cdk4h~eg Disambiguation of Rooms: 4 4 4 11 3 40 10 6 5 4 4 2 3
  2. A facility or room which may be walked into:
    A relatively larger room or (especially) an apartment that is entered directly, not via an intervening passage or lobby.
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-noun-aaqbsGqu
  3. A facility or room which may be walked into:
    A facility or an event that principally handles customers who do not have an appointment.
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-noun-LBJ3H84n
  4. A facility or room which may be walked into:
    A facility accessed on foot rather than by car, usually contrasted to drive-in.
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-noun-WqmIYvUu
  5. Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):
    A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral.
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-noun-BMgVHxf3
  6. Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):
    A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced.
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-noun-4WmSOdZQ
  7. A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison.
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-noun-eUAdjMtd
  8. (parapsychology) A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another. Categories (topical): Parapsychology
    Sense id: en-walk-in-en-noun--k2Lljvv Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 7 11 7 7 4 6 7 6 7 7 9 7 16 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 10 6 6 5 5 6 5 6 6 13 7 18 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 7 12 7 7 4 6 6 6 7 7 8 8 14 Topics: parapsychology, pseudoscience

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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925, Domestic Commerce Series, page 32",
          "text": "This consideration applies to the location of all types of petroleum-solvent cleaning plants, whether operated as delivery plants, drive-ins, walk-ins, or wholesale establishments.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, “Drive-ins Booming: Highway restaurants now a $6 billion annual business.”, in Financial World, volume 115, page 1060",
          "text": "As most of the food is prepackaged and frozen, and anyone can cook a hamburger or make a malted, drive-in payrolls run a full third under those for \"walk-ins\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Vogue, volume 157, page 466",
          "text": "Walk-ins are not like drive-ins, which freeze or isolate the individual in his eco-damaging armour-tool. Walk-ins are freewheeling playgrounds for the naked ape.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Trade Regulation Series, volume 12, number 5, page 327",
          "text": "It is undisputed this method of distribution and exhibition would insulate drive-ins from competing with walk-ins for licenses to exhibit first-run pictures, thereby resulting in less film rental to the distributors from the drive-ins.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A facility or room which may be walked into:",
        "A facility accessed on foot rather than by car, usually contrasted to drive-in."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drive-in",
          "drive-in"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Kazuo Nishiyama, Welcoming the Japanese visitor: insights, tips, tactics, page 85",
          "text": "An astute manager will have a table or two set aside for important regular customers or demanding walk-ins.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Susan L. Diamond, Hard Labor, page 275",
          "text": "Any patient with such a history and any woman who has not received prenatal care or who is a walk-in—an unexpected patient with no prenatal chart—will have toxicology labs done,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 May 3, “As the roads to addiction differ, so do the paths to recovery”, in The Laconia Daily Sun",
          "text": "others may be getting their first medication through the new Doorway program at Lakes Region General Hospital, which works with walk-ins as well as people referred by the state's 2-1-1 health services crisis line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):",
        "A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "customer",
          "customer"
        ],
        [
          "restaurant",
          "restaurant"
        ],
        [
          "facility",
          "facility"
        ],
        [
          "dealership",
          "dealership"
        ],
        [
          "reservation",
          "reservation"
        ],
        [
          "appointment",
          "appointment"
        ],
        [
          "referral",
          "referral"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 April 10, “[//www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/opinion/13blum.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Who Killed Ashraf Marwan?]”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2015-09-18",
          "text": "Still, a rapidly formed working group of Mossad wise men debated the risk in dealing with a walk-in, a volunteer who shows up bearing gifts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):",
        "A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "defector",
          "defector"
        ],
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          "embassy",
          "embassy"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison."
      ],
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        [
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          "demonstration"
        ],
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        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Gina Lake, ET Contact, page 8",
          "text": "This soul-exchange happens without the body dying. Star People and Walk-ins can be of either orientation—positive or negative—although most from fifth density and beyond are positive.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "parapsychology",
          "parapsychology"
        ],
        [
          "soul",
          "soul"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(parapsychology) A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "parapsychology",
        "pseudoscience"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "walk-in"
}

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    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrasal nouns",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "en:Rooms"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "walk-in closet"
    },
    {
      "word": "walk-up"
    }
  ],
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 August 29, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "On multiple occasions, beginning when she was 12, Sara went to her local GP and to walk-in clinics wearing her hijab to get the morning-after pill.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That may be walked into:",
        "That people may enter without a prior appointment."
      ],
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          "appointment",
          "appointment"
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        "That may be walked into:",
        "(of a place) That people may enter without a prior appointment."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "of a place"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Fred Dow, Suzanne Dow, U. S. National Forest Campground Guide",
          "text": "Aspen is a walk-in tent campground with sites tucked in among the pine",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That may be walked into:",
        "Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters."
      ],
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        "That may be walked into:",
        "(US, of a facility) Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters."
      ],
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        "US",
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      "categories": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Cruise Travel, page 47",
          "text": "Our roomy superior category double looked out onto the open wraparound promenade through one-way glass that reversed its view at night. The closet was walk-in, and the bath had a full tub. The TV brought in both the BBC and Euronews, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Paradise Avenger, The Breaking of Poisonwood, Xlibris Corporation, page 80",
          "text": "The closet was walk-in, but all the clothes had been shoved to one side over a low dresser. The other side was consumed by shelves spanning from floor to ceiling. Arranged on the shelves were boxes of every shape and size neatly labeled ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, K M Randall, Blue Sun, AuthorHouse",
          "text": "My closet was walk-in with plenty of hanging space and drawers, but most of my clothes ended up on the floor anyway.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That may be walked into:",
        "Spacious enough to walk into."
      ],
      "qualifier": "pantry; refrigerator; freezer; etc; pantry; refrigerator; freezer; etc",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "That may be walked into:",
        "(of a closet, pantry, refrigerator, freezer, etc) Spacious enough to walk into."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "of a closet"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a walk-in bathtub"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Douglas E Roff, Jacob A Roff, Cryptid: Discovery, BookBaby",
          "text": "“The shower is walk in, multiple showerheads and a tiled bench. Take your time, I installed one of those perpetual hot water heaters, so you can have an endless experience. If you're not out in an hour, I'll call 911.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Forrest Steele, Never Again, Seriously, Archway Publishing",
          "text": "Eighteen-inch ceramic tiles, laid diagonally, made the home seem bigger. Opposite the kitchen was the bedroom wing with a master suite plus two other bedrooms, each having its own bath. All the showers were walk-in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That may be walked into:",
        "Designed to be possible to walk into (without stepping over a ledge, etc)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, Warner A. Eliot, John R. Strack, Alice E. Witter, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. National Evaluation Program, Mitre Corporation, Early-warning robbery reduction projects: an assessment of performance, section II, § A, page 6",
          "text": "… (locations, that are vulnerable to walk-in robbery), which makes isolation of the value from UCR statistics impossible."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Andrew Ashworth, Sentencing and Criminal Justice, Cambridge University Press, page 137",
          "text": "[...], not least because the offence can vary from a quick walk-in theft to planned and targeted plundering.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Gaining access through unlocked doors."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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          "access"
        ],
        [
          "unlocked",
          "unlocked"
        ],
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          "door",
          "door"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a thief or theft) Gaining access through unlocked doors."
      ],
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        "not-comparable",
        "of a thief or theft"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bez ugovorka",
      "sense": "without appointments before",
      "word": "без уговорка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "without appointments before",
      "word": "tanpa janji temu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "spacious enough to walk into",
      "word": "begehbar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "walk-in"
}

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