Look up: Wall

1. Wall
   Wall is a township in Ford County Illinois, USA Wall is a township in Jackson County South Dakota, USA Wall is a town in Pennington County South Dakota, USA Wall is a borough in Allegheny County Pennsylvania, USA Wall is a township in Monmouth County New Jersey, USA
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2. wall
   [n] - a difficult or awkward situation 2. [n] - a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) 3. [n] - anything that suggests a wall in structure or effect 4. [n] - (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure 5. [n] - a layer of material that encloses space 6. [n] - a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden) 7. [n] - an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness 8. [v] - surround with a wall in order to fortify
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3. Wall
   Caterpillar species. Latin name: Lasiommata megera Native coarse grasses Description: Bluish green with faint white stripes. The Wall Brown is common throughout England, Ireland and Wales.
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4. wall
   Artificial barrier of brick or stone. Walls are normally built to protect property, but in upland areas they frequently replace hedges or fences as field boundaries. ...
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5. wall
   Unix's "write all" command which sends a message to everyone currently logged in. [Jargon File]
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6. wall
   a vertical building component with enclosing or subdividing function; it can be an internal wall or an external wall, loadbearing or non loadbearing Category: Building industry • any part delimiting a hollow space in a machine Category: Mechanical engineering • lateral walls of a gas producer. Category: Iron and steel industries
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7. Wall
   Wall noun (Nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale. Wall knot , a knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first; a wale knot. Wall knots may be single or double , < …
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8. Wall
   Wall noun [ Anglo-Saxon weall , from Latin vallum a wall, vallus a stake, pale, palisade; akin to Greek ... a nail. Confer Interval .] 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 inclosin …
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9. Wall
   Wall transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Walled ; present participle & verbal noun Walling .] 1. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. "Seven walled towns of strength." Shak. « The king of Thebes, Amphion, That with his singing walled that city.» Chaucer. 2. T …
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10. wall
    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 …
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11. wall
    paries noun (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure; `stomach walls`
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12. wall
    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 south wall had a small window`; `the walls were covered with pictures`
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13. wall
    noun anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect; `a wall of water`; `a wall of smoke`; `a wall of prejudice`; `negotiations ran into a brick wall`
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14. wall
    noun a difficult or awkward situation; `his back was to the wall`; `competition was pushing them to the wall`
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15. Wall
    A `wall` is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. Most commonly, a wall delineates a building and supports its superstructure, separates space in buildings into rooms, or protects or delineates a space in the open air. There are three principal types of structural walls: building walls, exterior boundary walls, and retaining walls. Building walls have two main purposes: to support roofs and ceilings, and to divi...
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16. Wall
    A `wall` is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. Most commonly, a wall delineates a building and supports its superstructure, separates space in buildings into rooms, or protects or delineates a space in the open air. There are three principal types of structural walls: building walls, exterior boundary walls, and retaining walls. Building walls have two main purposes: to support roofs and ceilings, and to divi...
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17. wall
    (wawl) a structure bounding or limiting a space or a definitive mass of material; called also paries. cell wall a rigid structure that lies just outside of and is joined to the plasma membrane of plant cells and most prokaryotic cells, which protects the cell and maintains its sh...
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18. Wall
    • (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale. • (n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. • (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. • (n.) The side of a level or drift. • (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or ...
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19. wall
    structural element used to divide or enclose, and, in building construction, to form the periphery of a room or a building. In traditional masonry ... [14 related articles]
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20. wall
    wall 1. A vertical structure forming an inside partition or an outside surface of a building. 2. A narrow upright structure, usually built of stone, wood, plaster, or brick, that acts as a boundary or keeps something in or out. 3. A structure of earth or stone built for defensive purposes. 4. Something similar to a wall in appearance or impenetrabili...
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21. wall
    An investing part enclosing a cavity such as the chest or abdomen, or covering a cell or any anatomic unit. A wall, as of the chest, abdomen, or any hollow organ. Syn: paries TA [L. vallum]
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22. Wall
    a line of 2 to 6 defending players pressed together shoulder-to-shoulder to protect their goal against a close free kick; creates a more difficult shot by reducing the amount of open goal area the kicker has to shoot at.
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23. Wall
    A vertical or near vertical structure which encloses or separates spaces and may be used to resist horizontal or vertical forces or bending forces.
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24. wall
    A vertical structural element that holds up a roof, encloses part or all of a room, or stands by itself to hold back soil.
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