wall /wöl/

1. An erection of brick, stone, etc, for security or to enclose a space such as a piece of land
2. The side of a building or of a room
3. A very steep smooth rock face (mountaineering)
4. (in pl) fortifications
5. Any bounding or encasing surface suggestive of a wall, eg the membranous covering or lining of an organ of the body or of a plant or animal cell
6. The side next to the wall
7. A defence, means of security (figurative)
8. A psychological and physiological barrier to further effort, encountered eg by long-distance runners (figurative)
9. (in mah-jong) the arrangement of the tiles before the hands are drawn
10. One of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode (mining)

1. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall
2. To fortify with, or as if with, walls
3. To divide as if by a wall

Growing on, living in, for hanging on, or otherwise relating to a wall

walled adjective

1. Enclosed with a wall
2. Fortified

wallˈer noun

A builder of walls

wallˈing noun

1. Walls collectively
2. Materials for walls

wallˈ-less adjective

wall bars plural noun

Horizontal bars fixed to a wall, used by gymnasts

wallˈboard noun

Building-board, board for lining walls, consisting of plaster or wood fibre compressed between layers of thick paper

wall brown noun

A brown butterfly with orange markings, Lasiommata megera

wallˈchart noun

A chart of information, statistics, etc, displayed on a wall

wallˈclimber noun (informal)

A glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building

wallˈcovering noun

Wallpaper, or anything used in the same way

wallˈcreeper noun

A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatch

wall cress noun

Rockcress, or any species of Arabis

walled garden noun

1. A garden enclosed within high walls
2. A controlled secure environment, such as an Internet service with restrictions preventing those using it from accessing anything beyond its confines

wallˈeye noun see separate entry.

wallˈ-facing noun

A facing for a wall

wallˈfish noun (dialect)

A snail

wallˈflower noun

1. A plant (Cheiranthus cheiri) with yellow, orange or orange-brown flowers, found esp on old walls
2. Any of various cultivars of this, with various-coloured flowers
3. A person who remains a spectator at a dance, typically a woman who cannot obtain partners (informal)
4. A yellowish-red colour (also wallflower brown)

wall fruit noun

1. A fruit tree growing against a wall
2. Its fruit

wall game noun

(also Eton wall game) a variety of football played at Eton against a wall (‘at the wall’ instead of ‘in the field’)

wall gillyflower noun

A wallflower

wall knot or (properly) wale knot noun

A nautical method of tying the strands at the end of a rope

wall lizard or wall newt noun

A common lizard living in the chinks of walls

wall moss noun

1. A yellow lichen
2. The common stonecrop

wall mustard or wall rocket noun

A yellow-flowered cruciferous plant (genus Diplotaxis) of walls, quarries, etc

wall of death noun

A fairground show in which a stunt-performer rides a motorcycle, at right angles to the ground, round the interior walls of a cylindrical enclosure

wall painting noun

1. The decoration of walls with ornamental painted designs
2. A work of art painted on a wall

wallˈpaper noun

1. Paper, usu coloured or decorated, for pasting on the walls of a room
2. Something of a bland or background nature, lacking originality or noteworthiness, etc (figurative; informal)
3. A background pattern on a computer screen

transitive verb

To cover with wallpaper

wall pass noun (football)

A one-two

wall pepper noun

The common stonecrop

wall plate noun

A horizontal piece of timber or of rolled steel on a wall, etc, to bear the ends of joists, etc

wall rue noun

A small fern growing on walls, etc, one of the spleenworts

wall space noun

Space on a wall, eg on which to hang a picture

Wall Street noun

1. A street in New York, the chief financial centre in the United States
2. Hence, American financial interests

Wallˈ-Streeter noun

A financier based in Wall Street

wallˈ-to-wallˈ adjective

1. (of carpets, etc) covering the entire floor
2. Widespread, ubiquitous or uninterrupted (figurative; informal)

wall tree noun

A tree trained against a wall

wall unit noun

A piece of furniture attached to or standing against a wall

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