per·am·bu·late

(pə-răm′byə-lāt′)

v. per·am·bu·lat·ed, per·am·bu·lat·ing, per·am·bu·lates

v.tr.

1. To walk through.

2. To inspect (an area) on foot.

v.intr.

To walk about; roam or stroll.

[Latin perambulāre, perambulāt- : per-, per- + ambulāre, to walk; see ambhi in Indo-European roots.]

per·am′bu·la′tion n.

per·am′bu·la·to′ry (-lə-tôr′ē) adj.

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Noun	1.	perambulation - a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries walk - the act of walking somewhere; "he took a walk after lunch" Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
	2.	perambulation - a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) amble, stroll, saunter, promenade ramble, meander - an aimless amble on a winding course walk - the act of walking somewhere; "he took a walk after lunch" walkabout - a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally

perambulation

noun

An act of walking, especially for pleasure:

amble, meander (often used in plural), promenade, ramble, saunter, stroll, walk, wander.

Translations

perambulation

[pəˌræmbjʊˈleɪʃən] N (frm, hum) (= stroll) → paseo m; (= journey) → viaje m; (= visit) → visita f de inspección

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

perambulation

n (form) → Spaziergang m

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References in classic literature

"Fichez-moi la paix," she said, and pushing him on one side continued her perambulation.

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He started off to make another perambulation of the table; then when he had come to the door again he stopped, glaring in from the height of two steps.

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Edna and her father looked very distinguished together, and excited a good deal of notice during their perambulations. Upon his arrival she began by introducing him to her atelier and making a sketch of him.

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My perambulations had given me, meanwhile, no glimpse of him, but they had tended to make more public the change taking place in our relation as a consequence of his having at the piano, the day before, kept me, in Flora's interest, so beguiled and befooled.

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We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.

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The light cart in which the Brigand usually made his perambulations being gaily dressed with flags and streamers, and the Brigand placed therein, contemplating the miniature of his beloved as usual, Nell was accommodated with a seat beside him, decorated with artificial flowers, and in this state and ceremony rode slowly through the town every morning, dispersing handbills from a basket, to the sound of drum and trumpet.

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And with all the swiftness of his legs, already a little fatigued however, with the perambulations of the day, D'Artagnan directed his course toward M.

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All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman.

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But matters were no sooner in this state, than he devoted all his spare time (and got up earlier to make it more) to these perambulations. If he had never been so happy as when the Doctor read that marvellous performance, the Dictionary, to him; he was now quite miserable unless the Doctor pulled it out of his pocket, and began.

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Camosse reported in the 1975 annual town report that "the once-in-five-years perambulation of the town bounds was carried out with representatives of adjoining communities: Millbury, Leicester, Oxford and Worcester."

Walking the line; Town checks boundary markers

In Chapter 2, he discusses William Lambarde's chorography, the Perambulation of Kent (1570) as a response to the centralizing impact of the Tudor revolution in government.

Adrian, John M., Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680

It reduces the city, as all maps must, to a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional construct; not only do maps leave out the third dimension, they also leave out information any walker would receive on perambulation. They are in this way diagrams, abstracts of reality for a particular purpose or agenda.

Design essence: David Dunster, who co-edited this issue of the AR, introduces its theme, the diagram. In the pages that follow, architects describe the role of diagrams in their own work, and examples they admire by others