Wall

[wɔːl] or [wɔl]

Definition

(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.

Checked by Evan--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Checked by Lanny

Definition

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.

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