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Meaning wall meaning

What does wall mean?
Definitions in simple English

wall Noun

— One side of a house; a high, flat part of a building. All four walls of the room are painted in blue. — A solid barrier between two areas. There is a wall between the two gardens. Peter fell from the wall.

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 — 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 — noun (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure stomach walls — noun a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden) the wall followed the road he ducked behind the garden wall and waited — noun a layer of material that encloses space the walls of the cylinder were perforated the container's walls were blue — noun a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) — noun a difficult or awkward situation his back was to the wall competition was pushing them to the wall — verb (= surround) surround with a wall in order to fortify — noun (= rampart) an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes they stormed the ramparts of the city they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down

Synonyms wall synonyms

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wall English » English

fence partition barrier enclosure rampart side fortification hedge walling paries palisade obstacle mural fortress bulwark block wall in wall brown surround septum screen room pen fencing fence in city castle barricade bar wooden walls wall up wall off wall butterfly vessel wall veil trench tier stratum story storey stonewall stone wall stele shield sheet row rock wall roadblock retrenchment

Wall English » English

separation barrier barrier

Topics wall topics

What do people use wall to talk about?
Physical actions Move something Open

Block, dam up
Social behavior Conflict War Military organization

Fort
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

Fence, wall
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Parts of a building
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Wall
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Angry

Annoyed
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Participate
Work and occupation

Working with buildings
Physical actions Move something Handle something

Support
States Time Period of time

Calendar

Conjugation wall conjugation

How do you conjugate wall?

wall · verb

Examples wall examples

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Simple sentences

The paint is peeling off the weather-beaten wall.
A fat white cat sat on a wall and watched them with sleepy eyes.
He pressed his ear against the wall.
He drew a straight line on the wall.
They broke down part of the wall.
His shadow on the wall looked sad.
The Great Wall of China is more than 5,500 miles long.
I would like to visit the Great Wall this year.
Tom is building a wall.
We're going to build a wall.
Tom demolished the wall.
Tom drilled a hole in the wall and hit a water pipe.
We are going to demolish a wall.
The car crashed into the wall.
You never listen. I might as well talk to the wall.
We have our backs to the wall.
The posters were immediately removed from the wall.
It was in 1989 that the Berlin Wall was taken down.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Stand the ladder against the wall.
Place the ladder against the wall.
A rat chewed a hole in the wall.
It casts mysterious shadows on the wall.
The wall is partly covered with ivy.
The wall is thirty yards long.
There are some flies on the wall.
Don't beat your head against a stone wall.

Movie subtitles

I placed a Geass on her which makes her carve a symbol on this wall every day.
By contrast, it took the founder of the Ming dynasty 21 years to build a wall more than 20 miles long around his capital city, Nanjing.
And I'd be much happier here, in my own home, in my own bed, with one beautiful wall of patterned paper behind it.
The man in the drawing on the wall in Peru.
That's the woman who left Wall Street to become a stripper?
Well, that's where he was, staring at the wall.
Staring at the wall?
There's a breach in the outer wall.
The Wall that bleeds.
The hysterical person will undoubtedly say that these celebrities come to her through the wall or window.
Well, ya see, I got the idea. when I was going to work every morning. on the subway to Wall Street.
Are you in Wall Street?
An opening in the wall.
They build wall after wall over there, but the fire keeps chewing its way through.
In fact, all those hundreds of radar telescopes, that formed the Atlantic Wall, had dazzle-painting green.
It was so nice that it proudly hang on a wall in the Observatory for months and went to several international conferences.
Backs against the wall, eyes down.
You've stood that boy against a wall, just as surely as you're standing there.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Professor Wagstaff gets the ball.
Face the wall.
Seven of them lined up against a wall.
Mother Earth must have some very particular secret up there. putting up a wall like that.
He'll make his appearance when the clock on the wall strikes ten.
When the clock on the wall strikes ten, all you loyal ladies and you patriotic men, let's sing the national anthem when the clock on the wall strikes ten.
There are two against the wall.
He's the fly on the wall, doesn't really have too many friends.
They're the flies on the wall of the school, the unpopular kids.
I'm sure. she's got a picture of me on the wall. if I know her. just to get your goat.
The convent is surrounded by an 8 kilometer wall. It protects from attacks by wolves and wild boar.
The wall will protect the plot from winter floods.
One the wall is up, they have to look for fertile soil in the hills.
See how it rests perpendicular to the wall.
The paper cut-outs on the wall add a touch of interior design.

News and current affairs

Indeed, on the surface it seems to be its perfect antithesis: the collapse of a wall symbolizing oppression and artificial divisions versus the collapse of a seemingly indestructible and reassuring institution of financial capitalism.
HONG KONG - A recent trip to Berlin brought back memories of an earlier visit in the summer of 1967, when I was a poor student who marveled at the Wall that would divide and devastate an entire society for another two decades.
With EU expansion coming next spring, all Ukrainians fear that a new wall will cut their country off from the Union's easternmost border in Poland.
When he goes, dangerous elements on Wall Street will no doubt breathe a sigh of relief.
They argued it again 25 years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Even The Wall Street Journal, usually financial markets' loudest cheerleader, openly disparaged the tests' integrity.
Both Wall Street's chieftains and the Obama administration already knew the truth.
The feared implosion of Wall Street seems to have been avoided.
The Wall Street Journal's Justin Lahart reports that the 2010 share was higher than the previous peak share in 2006.
When we macroeconomists talk to our friends on Wall Street, we find that they don't view this as a puzzle at all.
The dollar will fall and US long-term interest rates will rise, but only when traders on Wall Street and elsewhere decide that holding dollars and long-term US bonds is more risky in the short run.
These include a hateful bill - which the House of Representatives has already approved - that provides for the construction of a wall along the US-Mexican border and makes unauthorized entry into the US a felony.
But matters have gotten worse: border tensions between the US and Mexico have grown, the proposed wall has rightly provoked indignation, more unauthorized immigrants than ever are entering the US, and the FTAA has collapsed.
These special interests included Wall Street, Big Oil, the big health insurers, and arms manufacturers.
Of course, the fall of the house of Lehman Brothers has nothing to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This narrative - the standard Keynesian line, modified for a debt crisis - is the one to which most government officials, central bankers, and Wall Street economists have subscribed, and needs little elaboration.
CAMBRIDGE - Who will suffer the longest and the most from the implosion in 2008-2009 of Wall Street and the ensuing world recession?
No significant Wall Street voices acknowledged his concerns - preferring instead to praise the equity markets as a shining example of well-functioning technology.
Moreover, nationalizing banks would have required dismissing Wall Street captains and their boards for grossly mismanaging their firms.
Wall Street's titans, however, had convinced Obama and his team that their continued stewardship was essential to getting the world out of its crisis.
Instead, public servants now appear to be in cahoots with Wall Street to engineer an artificial aura of profitability.
Once sacrosanct accounting principles have been amended at Wall Street's behest in order to allow banks to report essentially whatever they want.
Meanwhile, Wall Street chieftains and their boards of directors have nothing to fear from government.
Yes, a harsh sanctions regime might still gain additional supporters, but an Iran with its back against the wall would probably be even more obstinate in its nuclear drive.
Financial deregulation enriched Wall Street, but ended up creating a global economic crisis through fraud, excessive risk-taking, incompetence, and insider dealing.
With their backs against the wall, I predict, poor and working-class Americans will begin to agitate for social justice.

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