wall
IPA: wˈɔɫ
noun
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- An impediment to free movement.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- (auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- A surname.
- A placename
- A village in Gwinear-Gwithian parish, south-west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SW6036).
- A village and civil parish in south Northumberland, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref NY9169); part of Hadrian's Wall is in the parish.
- A village and civil parish in the City of Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SK0906).
- A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A town in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Tom Green County, Texas, United States.
- (history, slang) the Berlin Wall.
- (slang) the Trump Wall.
- (slang) the Great Wall of China.
- (astronomy) A Chinese constellation located near Pegasus and Andromeda, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
verb
- To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
- (video games, slang) To use a wallhack.
- To boil.
- To well, as water; spring.
- (transitive, nautical) To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
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Examples of "wall" in Sentences
- The wall is painted.
- The wall is perforated.
- The lateral wall is the thickest wall of the orbit.
- A new walled forecourt was constructed in front of the pylon.
- The Thiers wall was the last of the defensive walls of Paris.
- The wall that applies is the innermost one, the Servian Wall.
- The outer wall of the mosque is the fortification wall itself.
- The short length of wall on the right is the end wall of the wheelpit.
- The parapet wall at the top of the church was probably constructed around 1896.
- A circular flange is located at the juncture of the top wall and the side wall.
- The 21st-century equivalent of the Berlin wall is a cyberbarrier, and we can help puncture it.
- The fall of the Berlin wall is probably one of the 3-4 “Where-were-you-when …” events that I remember in my lifetime.
- Perhaps, then, the place to put the wall is the Jordan; but to do this would require the wholesale removal of the Palestinians.
- The letter articulated both the principle and the phrase 'wall of separation between church and state' at the core of the then-new republic.
- Whether or not a wall is a good idea has little to do with your position on immigration and everything to do with your understanding of geography. anon says:
- All of that said, building a wall is a ridiculous waste of money to treat a problem that could be much better solved by a guest worker program or some other sort of mechanism for allowing Mexican laborers to protect their rights through the legal system.
- Big Dig.yep. repeating same head-banging in wall is sign of enlightened voters and Boston as a shining example to follow. ok, CouncilGuy Gossett -- let's take the reins and LEAD! first order of business? more diversity? like BBQ'ing in your apartment during power outages?
- We may refer to all sets adapted to be mounted on a wall or partition as _wall telephones_, and to all in which the receiver, transmitter, and hook are provided with a standard of their own to enable them to rest on any flat surface, such as a desk or table, as _desk telephones_.