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.

Checker: Rita

Unserious Contents or Definition

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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