WALK THROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does walk through mean? 

• WALK THROUGH (verb)
  The verb WALK THROUGH has 1 sense:

1. perform in a perfunctory way, as for a first rehearsal

  Familiarity information: WALK THROUGH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALK THROUGH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perform in a perfunctory way, as for a first rehearsal

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "walk through" is one way to...):

practice; practise; rehearse (engage in a rehearsal (of))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

walk-through (a first perfunctory rehearsal of a theatrical production in which actors read their lines from the script and move as directed)

 Context examples 

Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Come, she went on, springing to her feet, and smoothing down her rumpled frock, let us walk through the shaw together, and we may come upon Bertrand with the horses.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So, the Lion being fully refreshed, and feeling quite himself again, they all started upon the journey, greatly enjoying the walk through the soft, fresh grass; and it was not long before they reached the road of yellow brick and turned again toward the Emerald City where the Great Oz dwelt.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Oh, yes! said Jo, and he was quite satisfied, for she folded both hands over his arm, and looked up at him with an expression that plainly showed how happy she would be to walk through life beside him, even though she had no better shelter than the old umbrella, if he carried it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After leaving you at the station I went for a charming walk through some admirable Surrey scenery to a pretty little village called Ripley, where I had my tea at an inn, and took the precaution of filling my flask and of putting a paper of sandwiches in my pocket.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Catherine could have raved at the hand which had swept away what must have been beyond the value of all the rest, for the purposes of mere domestic economy; and would willingly have been spared the mortification of a walk through scenes so fallen, had the general allowed it; but if he had a vanity, it was in the arrangement of his offices; and as he was convinced that, to a mind like Miss Morland's, a view of the accommodations and comforts, by which the labours of her inferiors were softened, must always be gratifying, he should make no apology for leading her on.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

After I had written to my aunt and told her of my fortunate meeting with my admired old schoolfellow, and my acceptance of his invitation, we went out in a hackney-chariot, and saw a Panorama and some other sights, and took a walk through the Museum, where I could not help observing how much Steerforth knew, on an infinite variety of subjects, and of how little account he seemed to make his knowledge.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But here the country seemed wilder than ever, and after a long and tiresome walk through the underbrush they entered another forest, where the trees were bigger and older than any they had ever seen.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)