wall

noun

1. 1

   A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.

2. 2

   A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.

   The town wall was surrounded by a moat.

   From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

3. 3

   Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.

   We're adding another wall in this room during the remodeling. The wind blew against the walls of the tent.

   […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

   Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.

4. 4

   A point of desperation.

5. 5

   A point of defeat or extinction.

   They want Abramovich out for obvious reasons, including the optics, and they do not want to send Chelsea to the wall as they consider the club to be of cultural significance to the country.

6. 6

   An impediment to free movement.

   A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.

7. 7

   The butterfly Lasiommata megera.

   Researchers found that 15 of 17 species which commonly live on farmland – including the small tortoiseshell, small skipper and wall butterfly – show declines associated with increasing neonic use.

8. 8

   A barrier.

   a seawall; a firewall

9. 9

   Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.

   a wall of sound; a wall of water; a wall of smoke obscured their view of enemy forces

10. 10

    figurativeA means of defence or security.

    I built a wall between myself and the bullies.

11. 11

    One of the vertical sides of a container.

    The extraordinary thinness of the walls of these vases, which reminds us of the finest china, or even of Venetian glass

12. 12

    A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.

    There is definitely some sort of lump on the back wall of my throat (right side).

    The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.

13. 13

    A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.

14. 14

    slangA doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.

15. 15

    A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.

    Blackburn were the recipients of another dose of fortune when from another Thomas pass Odemwingie was brought down by Jones inside the penalty area, but referee Mark Clattenburg awarded a free-kick which Chris Brunt slammed into the wall.

16. 16

    Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.

    It can also be used to maintain the presence of a wall when one of the blockers who makes up the wall is picked off by an opposing blocker attempting to shut down the wall.

17. 17

    Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.

18. 18

    A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.

19. 19

    A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.

20. 20

    Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.

21. 21

    slangThe stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.

    Depreciation of assets happens. Prepare yourself Marla. Get ready for the wall.

    At what age would you peg the 'wall' to be for men, on or thereabouts?

    I have never had a problem getting the attention of men. I'm 44 and there's no wall staring me in the face

    That was only six years later and Natasha is not near the wall yet

22. 22

    historicalThe right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.

    He related to me the following minute anecdote of this period: 'In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. […] Now it is fixed that every man keeps to the right; or, if one is taking the wall, another yields it; and it is never a dispute.'

    All persons, in walking the streets, whose right sides are next the wall, are intitled to take the wall.

    Taking the wall thus was also a social distinction. An entire episode in the second book is therefore dedicated “to whom to give the wall” and “to whom to refuse the wall” (II. 4564).

23. 23

    A very steep slope.

verb

1. 1

   To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.

   He walled the study with books.

2. 2

   slangTo use a wallhack.

3. 3

   slangTo wallbang.

   I walled her. She's low [health].

verb

1. 1

   To boil.

2. 2

   To well, as water; spring.

noun

1. 1

   A spring of water.

noun

1. 1

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

verb

1. 1

   To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).

interjection

1. 1

   Variant of wellPronunciation spelling of well.

   Wall, they spoke up, 'n' says to her, s'd they, "Why, look a-here, aunty, Wus't his skin, 't was rock?" so s's she, "I guess not." (Well, they spoke up and says to her, said they, "Why look a-here, aunty, was it his skin that was rock [referring to the Apostle Peter]?" So says she, "I guess not.")

   Wall, be that as it may, ol' Hosshead was a purty good citizen in his day, an' he shore did make Juneybell toe the mark.

Forms

plural

walls

past tense

walled

past participle

walled

present participle

walling

third person singular

walls