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Wall

noun

1.

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.

Anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect. "A wall of smoke" , "A wall of prejudice" , "Negotiations ran into a brick wall"

3.

(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure. Synonym: paries.

4.

A difficult or awkward situation. "Competition was pushing them to the wall"

5.

A vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain).

6.

A layer of material that encloses space. "The container's walls were blue"

7.

A masonry fence (as around an estate or garden). "He ducked behind the garden wall and waited"

8.

An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes. Synonyms: bulwark, rampart. "They blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"

verb

(past & past part. walled; pres. part. walling)

1.

Surround with a wall in order to fortify. Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, surround.

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"Wall" Quotes from Famous Books

... closed, no sentry outside it. Everything was asleep. We landed in dead silence, and the column formed up. The sappers ran on ahead, laid the powder bag, and masked it, then a sergeant of sappers lighted the match and shrank back behind a projecting bit of wall. Bang! The mask of the petard just grazed our heads, and one side of the gate lay on the ground. At the same moment firing began in the direction of Parseval's column. "Forward! God save the King!" We caught sight of the guard at the gate bolting off, and then lost it in the fog. ...

— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville

... VOICE (from the wall on the left). The comet tracks its way in fire across the sky; the day of wrath already breaks—the trump of ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... is that the suitcases have to be lashed down with the straps provided, and you and the operator have to hold on tight to the hand-grips placed here and there around the wall. Otherwise, you'd clonk your head on ...

— The Risk Profession • Donald Edwin Westlake

... is, Lifecraft Number Two—my crash assignment. Good thing I was down here in the Middle; I'd never have made it from up Top. Next corridor left, I think." Then, as the light of his headlamp showed numbers on the wall: "Yes. Square left. ...

— Subspace Survivors • E. E. Smith

... whereupon he said that if I could but get the vessel to the water he would give me anything I asked, and earnestly begged me to come the next morning, if possible. I did come with the lad and four horses. I went before the team, and set the men to work to break a hole through a great old wall, which stood as it were before the ship. We then laid a piece of timber across the hole from which was a chain, to which the tackle, that is the rope and pulleys, was hooked. We then hooked one end of the rope to the ship, ...

— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow

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