Wall
[wɔːl] or [wɔl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure; 'the south wall had a small window'; 'the walls were covered with pictures'.
(noun.) a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden); 'the wall followed the road'; 'he ducked behind the garden wall and waited'.
(noun.) a layer of material that encloses space; 'the walls of the cylinder were perforated'; 'the container's walls were blue'.
(noun.) (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure; 'stomach walls'.
(noun.) anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect; 'a wall of water'; 'a wall of smoke'; 'a wall of prejudice'; 'negotiations ran into a brick wall'.
(noun.) a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain).
(noun.) a difficult or awkward situation; 'his back was to the wall'; 'competition was pushing them to the wall'.
(verb.) surround with a wall in order to fortify.
埃文編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
(n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
(n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
(n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
(n.) The side of a level or drift.
(n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
(v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
(v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
(v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
編輯:兰尼
解釋/意思:
n. an erection of brick stone &c. for a fence or security: the side of a building: (fig.) defence means of security: in mining one of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode: (anat.) a paries or containing structure or part of the body: (pl.) fortifications.—v.t. to enclose with or as with a wall: to defend with walls: to hinder as by a wall.—n. Wall′-clock a clock hung on a walk.—adj. Walled fortified.—ns. Wall′er one who builds walls; Wall′-flower a plant with fragrant yellow flowers found on old walls: a woman at a ball who keeps her seat presumably for want of a partner—applied sometimes to men; Wall′-fruit fruit growing on a wall; Wall′ing walls collectively: materials for walls; Wall′-knot a nautical method of tying the end of a rope.—adj. Wall′-less.—ns. Wall′-liz′ard -newt a gecko; Wall′-moss the yellow wall-lichen: the stone-crop; Wall′-paint′ing the decoration of walls with ornamental painted designs; Wall′-pā′per paper usually coloured and decorated for pasting on the walls of a room; Wall′-piece a gun mounted on a wall; Wall′-plate a horizontal piece of timber on a wall under the ends of joists &c.; Wall′-space (archit.) a plain expanse of wall; Wall′-spring a spring of water running between stratified rocks; Wall′-tow′er a tower built into and forming part of a line of fortification or a fortified city-wall; Wall′-tree a tree trained against a wall; Wall′-wort the European dwarf elder; Hang′ing-wall that wall of the vein which is over the miner's head while working the opposite wall being called the Foot′-wall.—Wall a rope to make a wall-knot on the end of a rope.—Drive to the wall to push to extremities; Go to the wall to be hard pressed: to be pushed to extremes; Hang by the wall to hang up neglected: to remain unused; Push or Thrust to the wall to force to give place; The wall the right of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another person as in the phrase to Give or Take the wall.
手打:丽塔
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream that you find a wall obstructing your progress, you will surely succumb to ill-favored influences and lose important victories in your affairs. To jump over it, you will overcome obstacles and win your desires. To force a breach in a wall, you will succeed in the attainment of your wishes by sheer tenacity of purpose. To demolish one, you will overthrow your enemies. To build one, foretells that you will carefully lay plans and will solidify your fortune to the exclusion of failure, or designing enemies. For a young woman to walk on top of a wall, shows that her future happiness will soon be made secure. For her to hide behind a wall, denotes that she will form connections that she will be ashamed to acknowledge. If she walks beside a base wall. she will soon have run the gamut of her attractions, and will likely be deserted at a precarious time.
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例句/造句/用法:
- She turned out the wall-lights, and peered at herself between the candle-flames. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He _could not_ walk on, till daylight came again; and here he stretched himself close to the wall--to undergo new torture. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The unfortunate inquirer staggered against a wall, a faint cry escaped her --O! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It threw a livid, unnatural circle upon the floor, while in the shadows beyond we saw the vague loom of two figures which crouched against the wall. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- At his feet an opening looked out upon a green sward, and at a little distance beyond was the dense wall of jungle and forest. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- But he came regularly every evening and sat without his coat, with his head against the wall, as though he would have helped us if he had known how. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Mrs. Bardell, the plaintiff in the action, is within these walls, Sir. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Against artillery of the present day the land forts and walls would prove elements of weakness rather than strength. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- These slippery smooth walls would give him no chance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Pass that torch slowly along these walls, that I may see them, said Defarge to the turnkey. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Goldenrod and asters fringed the mossy walls. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- France, Germany, Italy and Spain, were interposed, walls yet without a breach, between us and the plague. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- At the foot of this slant is the walled town of Gibraltar--or rather the town occupies part of the slant. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The main entrance to the church was on the side next to the burial-ground, and the door was screened by a porch walled in on either side. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- A double walled globular vessel has between its walls air spaces and non-conducting packing. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I mixed one part of aqua-fortis with five parts of water, and poured it on the stone to the height of two inches, having previously walled it round with wax in the usual manner. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- His faculties seemed walled up in him, and were unmurmuring in their captivity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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