Definition of Wall

1. 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 walls were covered with pictures"


2. Verb. Surround with a wall in order to fortify.
Exact synonyms: Fence, Fence In, Palisade, Surround
Generic synonyms: Protect
Specialized synonyms: Stockade, Circumvallate
Derivative terms: Fence, Palisade, Surround
Also: Wall In, Wall Up

3. Noun. Anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect. "Negotiations ran into a brick wall"
Generic synonyms: Object, Physical Object
Specialized synonyms: Footwall, Hanging Wall

4. Noun. (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure. "Stomach walls"
Exact synonyms: Paries
Specialized synonyms: Abdominal Wall
Category relationships: Anatomy, General Anatomy
Generic synonyms: Stratum

5. Noun. A difficult or awkward situation. "Competition was pushing them to the wall"
Generic synonyms: Difficulty

6. Noun. A vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain).
Group relationships: Cave
Generic synonyms: Formation, Geological Formation

7. Noun. A layer of material that encloses space. "The container's walls were blue"
Generic synonyms: Bed, Layer

8. Noun. A masonry fence (as around an estate or garden). "He ducked behind the garden wall and waited"
Generic synonyms: Fence, Fencing
Specialized synonyms: Party Wall, Retaining Wall

9. Noun. An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes. "They blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"
Exact synonyms: Bulwark, Rampart
Specialized synonyms: Antonine Wall, Chinese Wall, Great Wall, Great Wall Of China
Specialized synonyms: Bailey, Battlement, Crenelation, Crenellation, Earthwork, Fraise, Merlon
Generic synonyms: Embankment
Group relationships: Fortification, Munition
Derivative terms: Bulwark

Definition of Wall

1. n. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

2. 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.

3. v. t. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.

4. n. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

5. 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.

6. v. t. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.

Definition of Wall

1. to provide with a wall (an upright structure built to enclose an area) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Wall

1. 1. 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. "The plaster of the wall of the King's palace." (Dan. V. 5) 2. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. "The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." (Ex. Xiv. 22) "In such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls." (Shak) "To rush undaunted to defend the walls." (Dryden) 3. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder. 4. The side of a level or drift. The country rock bounding a vein laterally. (Raymond) Wall is often used adjectively, and also in the formation of compounds, usually of obvious signification; as in wall paper, or wall-paper; wall fruit, or wall-fruit; wallflower, etc. Blank wall, Blind wall, etc. See Blank, Blind, etc. To drive to the wall, to bring to extremities; to push to extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over. To go to the wall, to be hard pressed or driven; to be the weaker party; to be pushed to extremes. To take the wall. To take the inner side of a walk, that is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence. "I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's." . Wall barley, a common European solitary wasp (Odynerus parietus) which makes its nest in the crevices of walls. Origin: AS. Weall, from L. Vallum a wall, vallus a stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. A nail. Cf. Interval. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Wall

walkyr
walkyrie
walkyries
walk about
walk around
walk away
walk in
walk off
walk of life
walk on air
walk out
walk out of
walk over
walk through
wall (current term)
wall (current term)
wall-eye
wall-eyed
wall-less
wall-paperer
wall-plat
walla
wallaba
wallaba
wallabas
wallabies
wallaby
wallaby
Wallace
Wallace Carothers

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