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walk-through

walk-through

4 4.2
An inspection where people go through a place to check for problems
  • noun
  • /ˈwɔkˌθru/
translation icon : recorrido
  • You know I usually would, but I have to get to this walk-through.
  • a final walk-through
  • a walk-through inspection
  • a morning walk-through

And yeah, it's lovely to take a little walk through Charleston at Dust.

Examples

  • Yet none of the evidence was more compelling than the classified police footage of the crime-scene walk-through.

    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

  • Did you authorize a walk-through?

    Evolution (2001)

  • No, we do the final walk-through on Monday.

    Monster-in-Law (2005)

  • Well, we have a walk-through next week and Jim is supposed to be there.

    The Brutalist (2024)

  • The real estate agent had warned us the day before that the buyers were entitled to a "walk-through" on the morning of the closing and could justly back out of the contract if they saw that I had not removed all the crap blown onto the lawn from winter storms, or even cut the lawn since last fall.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Before the team moved into the new office, they conducted a final walk-through to check for any damages.

  • The manager scheduled a walk-through of the facility to ensure everything was ready for the guests.

  • During the walk-through, the property inspector pointed out several areas that needed repairs.

Synonyms

going-over
vswalk-through
14 4.9

A careful check of something to find problems

is about physically going through a place to inspect rather than general checking
walkthrough
vswalk-through
2 3.9

A guided tour of a place to check its condition

is a general act of moving through a place to inspect it
check-out procedure
vswalk-through
3.1

A set of steps for checking something before you finish or leave

is a single movement through a place to inspect, not a series of steps

How Thorough

audit
69 4.4
inspection
  • Formal
356 2.5
walk-through
4 4.2
to look
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

walk-through singular
walk-throughs plural

Morphology

walk-through = walk (transparent) = through + walk

The sense 'an occasion of going through a place to inspect it' is directly derived from 'walk through'. [Postprocessing: moved 'through' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Walk-through comes from the simple parts walk + through, meaning to 'go through' a space by walking and looking. So a walk-through when buying, leaving, or checking a place is a quick walk to look for any problems.