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Definition of 'WALL' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) wall
any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy.

2.  wall
an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall:
a wall of prejudice.

3.  wall
a wall-like enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.:
a wall of fire; a wall of troops.

4.  wall
an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall.

5.  wall
Usu., walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes.

6.  wall
the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object:
the wall of a blood cell.

7. (adj.) wall
of or pertaining to a wall.

8.  wall
growing against or on a wall:
wall plants.

9.  wall
situated or installed in or on a wall:
a wall oven.

10. (v.t.) wall
to enclose, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often fol. by in or off):
to wall in the playground.

11.  wall
to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall:
to wall an unused entrance.

12.  wall
to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall; immure (usu. fol. by up).

13.  wall
Informal. to become tense or frantic.

14.  wall
go to the wall,

15.  wall
to be defeated; yield.

16.  wall
to fail in business; be forced into bankruptcy.

17.  wall
to risk one's own position to defend or protect another.

18.  wall
hit the wall, to reach a point in a long-distance race when the body's fuels are virtually depleted and willpower becomes crucial to the ability to finish.

19.  wall
Slang.

20.  wall
unreasonable; crazy.

21.  wall
eccentric; bizarre.

22.  wall
Informal. into a state of frantic frustration.

Etymology:  (bef. 900; ME; OE w(e)all (c. OFris, OS wal) < L vallum palisade, der. of vallus stake, post)

Definition of 'WALL' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) wall
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"

2. (noun) wall
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"

3. (noun) wall, paries
(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
"stomach walls"

4. (noun) wall
a difficult or awkward situation
"his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall"

5. (noun) wall
a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)

6. (noun) wall
a layer of material that encloses space
"the walls of the cylinder were perforated"; "the container's walls were blue"

7. (noun) wall
a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
"the wall followed the road"; "he ducked behind the garden wall and waited"

8. (verb) rampart, bulwark, wall
an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
"they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"

9. (verb) wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround
surround with a wall in order to fortify


Definition of 'WALL' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) wall
one of the sides of a room or building
a house with brick walls; the mirror hanging on the wall

2.  wall
a structure made of stone, brick, cement, etc. that divides land
the wall constructed on the border; a low stone wall in the yard


Definition of 'WALL' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) WALL
a kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale

2. (noun) WALL
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

3. (noun) WALL
a defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense

4. (noun) WALL
an inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder

5. (noun) WALL
the side of a level or drift

6. (noun) WALL
the country rock bounding a vein laterally

7. (verb) WALL
to inclose with a wall, or as with a wall

8. (verb) WALL
to defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify

9. (verb) WALL
to close or fill with a wall, as a doorway


Definitions of 'WALL' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  WALL
[WPI]

1. An indication of confusion, usually spoken with a quizzical tone: “Wall??

2. A request for further explication. Compare octal forty.

3. [Unix, from ‘write all’] v. To send a message to everyone currently logged in, esp. with the wall(8) utility.

It is said that sense 1 came from the idiom ‘like talking to a blank wall’. It was originally used in situations where, after you had carefully answered a question, the questioner stared at you blankly, clearly having understood nothing that was explained. You would then throw out a “Hello, wall?” to elicit some sort of response from the questioner. Later, confused questioners began voicingWall?” themselves.


Translation of 'WALL' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: something built of stone, brick, plaster, wood etc and used to separate off or enclose something
There's a wall at the bottom of the garden: The Great Wall of China; a garden wall.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: muur Arabic flag Arabic: جِدار، سور Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: стена
Brazilian flag Brazilian: muro Czech flag Czech: zeď German flag German: die Mauer
Danish flag Danish: mur; -mur Greek flag Greek: τοίχος, τείχος Spanish flag Spanish: muro, tapia, muralla; par
Estonian flag Estonian: müür Farsi flag Farsi: تيغه Finnish flag Finnish: seinä
French flag French: mur(aille) Hebrew flag Hebrew: קִיר Hindi flag Hindi: दीवार
Croatian flag Croatian: zid Hungarian flag Hungarian: fal Indonesian flag Indonesian: tembok
Icelandic flag Icelandic: veggur, (varnar)múr Italian flag Italian: muro Japanese flag Japanese: 
Korean flag Korean: 성벽 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: siena, tvora Latvian flag Latvian: siena; mūris
Malay flag Malay: tembok, benteng Dutch flag Dutch: muur Norwegian flag Norwegian: mur, vegg, voll
Polish flag Polish: mur Portuguese flag Portuguese: muro Romanian flag Romanian: zid
Russian flag Russian: стена Slovak flag Slovak: múr Slovenian flag Slovenian: zid
Serbian flag Serbian: zid Swedish flag Swedish: mur Thai flag Thai: กำแพง; ผนัง; ฉาก; เครื่อง
Turkish flag Turkish: duvar Taiwanese flag Taiwanese:  Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: стіна
Urdu flag Urdu: دیوار Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bức tường Chinese flag Chinese: 

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