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Princeton's WordNet

  1. walk-onadjective

    plays a small part in a dramatic production

  2. nonspeaking, walk-onadjective

    not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines

    "had a nonspeaking role in the play"

Wiktionary

  1. 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.

  2. walk-onnoun

    An actor of a small (or "bit") part in a theatrical production or film, often without speaking lines.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. 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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of walk-on in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of walk-on in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of walk-on in a Sentence

  1. Robert Riener:

    They (patients) have to walk a lot, they have to do intensive training and walk on that treadmill while being body weight supported and the robot guides the legs and enables them to walk, which they could not do at all without this device.

  2. Purvi Raniga:

    Sometimes it feels like all the hard work is not enough to achieve those dreams. When we Keep working towards our purpose, every single day the path becomes clearer and the purpose itself gives us the strength and power to walk on destined path.

  3. Ambassador Guajardo:

    We're grown-ups, we can walk on our own, we don't need somebody to hold our hand.

  4. Joseph Wu:

    I along with our country's people feel sad, angry and regretful, i need to emphasize here that China grabbing our allies and giving us pressure in the diplomatic space will not shrink the distance across the (Taiwan) strait and will not let cross-strait relations walk on a peaceful, friendly path.

  5. Jon Tester:

    We were told time and time again the people above Jon Tester Jon Tester treated like gold, the people below Jon Tester, Jon Tester belittled, screamed at them, really created a very toxic environment to the point where the people who worked around Jon Tester felt like they had to walk on eggshells because of Jon Tester lack of respect for Jon Tester job.


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