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US
/ˈwɔɫ/
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[ UK /wˈɔːl/ ]
[ UK /wˈɔːl/ ]
NOUN
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anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
a wall of prejudice
a wall of smoke
negotiations ran into a brick wall
a wall of water -
an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down
they stormed the ramparts of the city -
a layer of material that encloses space
the walls of the cylinder were perforated
the container's walls were blue -
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 -
a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
the wall followed the road
he ducked behind the garden wall and waited -
a difficult or awkward situation
competition was pushing them to the wall
his back was to the wall - a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
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(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
stomach walls
VERB
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
How To Use wall In A Sentence
- The ball rebounded from/off the wall into the pond.
- That gave us the time to move arbalests and mangonels into position along the walls.
- We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
- To avoid leaving the center posts in the permanent work, two rows of temporary posts were placed, as shown by Fig. 1, Plate LX, the center wall and skewback were built, and the posts were removed, as shown by Fig. 2, Plate LX, before placing the remainder of the lining. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
- Among profuse schools of trevallies and barracuda, huge tunas and a host of sharks cruise the sheer wall.
- Next follows the cella, and beyond that, the adytum; there are a few sculptures on the walls of the adytum; on those of the pronaos Travels in Nubia
- It was of average size with an unmade bed sitting in one corner, a night table, two dressers, a bureau, a desk, a small TV, and a lot of posters on the wall.
- The Yellow Wallpaper is the masterpiece of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a wellknown American feminist pioneer and writer.
- The "lawmen" in the Justice Department, etc, who are doing the hard work to bring these Wall Street criminals to the courthouse will be compromised. Stephen Gyllenhaal: Goldman and Sachs and Lipstick and Rouge
- The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.