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wall W0017400 (wôl)n.1. An upright structure of masonry, wood, plaster, or other building material serving to enclose, divide, or protect an area, especially a vertical construction forming an inner partition or exterior siding of a building.2. often walls A continuous structure of masonry or other material forming a rampart and built for defensive purposes.3. A structure of stonework, concrete, or other material built to retain a flow of water.4. a. Something resembling a wall in appearance, function, or construction, as the exterior surface of a body organ or part: the abdominal wall.b. Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength: a wall of silence; a wall of fog.c. An extreme or desperate condition or position, such as defeat or ruin: driven to the wall by poverty.5. Sports The vertical surface of an ocean wave in surfing.tr.v. walled, wall·ing, walls 1. To enclose, surround, or fortify with or as if with a wall: wall up an old window. See Synonyms at enclose.2. To divide or separate with or as if with a wall. Often used with off: wall off half a room.3. To confine or seal behind a wall; immure: "I determined to wall [the body] up in the cellar" (Edgar Allan Poe).4. To block or close (an opening or passage, for example) with or as if with a wall.Idioms: off the wall Slang 1. Extremely unconventional.2. Without foundation; ridiculous: an accusation that is really off the wall. up the wall Slang Into a state of extreme frustration, anger, or distress: tensions that are driving me up the wall. writing/handwriting on the wall An ominous indication of the course of future events: saw the writing on the wall and fled the country.
[Middle English, from Old English weall, from Latin vallum, palisade, from vallus, stake. Idiom, in reference to an incident in the Bible (Daniel 5) in which a hand writes mysterious words on the wall of Belshazzar's banquet hall and the prophet Daniel interprets them as predicting the king's downfall.]
wall′less adj.walled (wɔld)
adj. 1. having walls (often used in combination): a high-walled prison. 2. enclosed or fortified with a wall: a walled city. Translationswall (woːl) noun1. 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. 牆 墙2. any of the sides of a building or room. One wall of the room is yellow – the rest are white. 牆壁 墙壁 verb (often with in) to enclose (something) with a wall. We've walled in the playground to prevent the children getting out. 用牆圍住 用墙围住walled adjectivea walled city. 有城牆的 有城墙的-walled having (a certain type or number of) wall(s). a high-walled garden. 有(特定種類或數量)牆的 有...墙的ˈwallpaper noun paper used to decorate interior walls of houses etc. My wife wants to put wallpaper on the walls but I would rather paint them. 壁紙 壁纸 verb to put such paper on. I have wallpapered the front room. 貼壁紙 糊壁纸ˌwall-to-ˈwall adjective (of a carpet etc) covering the entire floor of a room etc. 在房間的整個地板鋪上(地毯等) 墙到墙的，整个地板铺满的 have one's back to the wall to be in a desperate situation. The army in the south have their backs to the wall, and are fighting a losing battle. 走投無路 处于绝境up the wall crazy. This business is sending/driving me up the wall! 發狂 陷入困境EncyclopediaSeewallLegalSeeWall |