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fence English

Meaning fence meaning

What does fence mean?
Definitions in simple English

fence Noun

— A fence is like a thin wall that is not part of a building. It stops people or animals from going from one outdoors place to another. It may have many big holes that you can see through, but not big enough for people to walk through. We put up a tall fence around the yard so that the dog couldn't get out. — A fence is a person who buys things from people who stole the things, and then sells the things again to other people. I don't think anyone will steal this, because they wouldn't get much money for it. They'd have to sell it to a fence.

fence Verb

— When someone fences a piece of land, they put up a fence around it. This field has been fenced for years, because they used to keep cows here. — When someone fences, they fight with swords as a sport. I can hear the sound of the swords hitting each other, from people fencing in the gym. — When someone fences something, they sell it to a fence. We can't give you back what we stole. We fenced it.

fence

— noun a barrier that serves to enclose an area — verb (= fence in) enclose with a fence we fenced in our yard — verb receive stolen goods — verb fight with fencing swords — noun a dealer in stolen property — verb (= wall, surround) surround with a wall in order to fortify — verb (= argue) have an argument about something

Synonyms fence synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as fence?

fence English » English

hedge wall enclosure barrier palisade fencing paling corral enclose railing fence in surround stockade rail hurdle debate contend stall fence pen argue yard swordsmanship swordplay stonewall railings protection obstacle hinder grating fort dealer in stolen goods bulwark build boundary barricade bar wing fence untie unloose undo twig fence twig tree trap stone wall stone stockae shut shield shelter

Topics fence topics

What do people use fence to talk about?
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

Fence, wall
Physical actions Move something Open

Block, dam up
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Indifferent
Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Steal

Conjugation fence conjugation

How do you conjugate fence?

fence · verb

Examples fence examples

How do I use fence in a sentence?

Simple sentences

What I want him to do now is to paint the fence.
His horse jumped over the fence.
He stood leaning against the fence.
I had to climb over the fence.
Tom was standing by the fence.
The fence is freshly painted.
They painted the fence.
I needn't have painted the fence.
I didn't need to paint the fence.
Tom will paint the fence tomorrow.
The fence will be painted by Tom tomorrow.
The garden was surrounded by a wooden fence.
The fence was painted by my father.
The fence is painted green.
The top of this tree is level with the fence.
The crowd got out of control and broke through the fence.
The dog jumped over the fence into the garden.
You can slip through the fence on all fours.
I painted the fence green.
I saw a white dog jump over the fence.
A fence between makes love more keen.
A fence runs around the house.
There is a fence about the house.
Fred had his little brother paint the fence.
The cat went through a gap in the fence.

Movie subtitles

I'd like to have a barn to the north, by the fence, with plenty of room for chickens.
And then there's a little clearing there. a little clearing with a wire fence around it.
You see that wire fence there?
Why a fence?
I've got my own system, boys, but being a fence ain't part of it.
And they're coming to the first fence now, and Skee Ball takes it but Hi Hat refuses.
Each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday, you build another fence around your minds.
One each side of the fence and one up the road!
Well, that depends on what side of the fence you're on.
But after you broke your knee last year jumping that fence.
A house with a picket fence and a barn with a weathervane of a running horse.
I told you Tom would come bustin' out of thatjail just like a bull through corral fence.
Swapping lies over the back fence?
Is there any snow behind the fence?
It's worse than two cats on a fence.
This morning at 10:30, this boy entered the premises of the world exhibition from the side of the amusement parks, by pulling out a post in the fence, because he didn't have a ticket.
Fence?
Fence, receiver, stop, it's all the same racket.
The crook would be double-crossed by the fence?
A fence wouldn't take a chance on a crook he doesn't know.
Oh, tell me, inspector, how does a criminal get in touch with a fence?
No, there never was a wall or a fence around this place.
Father Flanagan once told us. that a fence can't keep a fellow in if he don't want to stay in.
Never climb a fence if you can sit on it. Old Foreign Office proverb.
A catcher's a kid who catches bags of PBJs that someone throws over the fence into the yard.
Yes, I see. And then there's a little clearing there. a little clearing with a wire fence around it.
That whole great big fence?
I'll tell the boys you can't go swimming 'Cause you gotta whitewash the old fence.
One came out once and I clipped him. - Shh! From behind with a fence stake.
I told you so. I told you Tom would come busting out of that jail just like a bull through a corral fence.
Swapping lies over the back fence.
There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone.
Standing like you, with his back to the fence.
Went backwards down the hill, takin' the fence with him, got caught on the rock.
What, that guy here reminds me of is an electric fence.

News and current affairs

Meanwhile, the ability to backstop, ring-fence, and bail out banks and other financial institutions is constrained by politics and near-insolvent sovereigns' inability to absorb additional losses from their banking systems.
Would host supervisors try to ring-fence the losses to include only those in their own country?
From their rhetoric and regulatory policies, it would appear that most governments have ended up in the third, fence-sitting camp.
The substantial new official resources of the IMF and ESM - and ECB liquidity - could then be used to ring-fence these countries, and banks elsewhere in the eurozone's troubled periphery.
Moreover, Sharon now agreed that a security fence, which historically was favored by the Israeli left, would enhance Israel's defenses.
They could outlaw initiatives that the UK holds dear, such as new rules to ring-fence retail banks' subsidiaries and impose higher capital requirements on them.
Hamas controls Gaza; Iran is more influential; additional settlements and a fence have been built; and the US is bogged down in Iraq and has lost standing throughout the region.
But why did Obama fence himself in with such rhetoric in the first place?
Israel will complete its defensive security fence and strike back against terrorists and those who fire missiles at Israeli civilian targets.
The world's high- and middle-income countries should not imagine that the relatively rich can fence themselves off indefinitely from poverty and misery in the poorest countries.
If the fence followed the 1967 boundary there would be few objections.
The argument against the fence on the West Bank assumes that the settlers are there illegally and therefore are not entitled to the protection of a defensive barrier.
Although it imposes hardships on others, the fence is a plausible means of protection against suicide bombers.
The best argument that the Palestinians could make against the fence is to make it unnecessary by suppressing suicide bombings.
In May, Hungarian reformers began tearing down the fence along their border with Austria - a hole in the Iron Curtain.
Tom Sawyer pulled off that business strategy when he persuaded his friends to pay him for the privilege of taking over his hated chore, painting the picket fence.
They must be built with the knowledge that no fence, wall, or even an ocean or a continent can truly divide us from the problems of others.
In this sense, nuclear weapons facilitate normal international relations, just like a good fence helps build good neighborly relations.
Netanyahu thinks that he can build a fence and let the problem simply fester forever.
An estimated 30,000 migrants are now crossing the Serbian border into Hungary every month, spurring the country's right-wing government to launch the construction of a 110-mile fence to keep them out.
A retail ring-fence makes most sense if coupled with new a new resolution regime, which would allow a retail subsidiary to be wound up without contagion across the group.
After all, a fence to protect the deer from the lions is the same as a fence to keep the lions away from the deer.
Surely a twenty-first-century fisherman does not want to see the basis of his or her living degraded and destroyed, nor does a modern conservationist want to ring-fence the environment and stop people from making a living.
Iran is more influential; additional settlements and a fence have been built; and the US is bogged down in Iraq and has lost standing throughout the region.
The SPD will recoil at the prospect, sit on the fence, and finally give in, because Merkel has a powerful disciplinary instrument: she could call a new election, in which the CDU would probably win an outright majority.

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