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wall

  [wawl]
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–noun
1. any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
2. Usually, walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes.
3. an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall: a wall of prejudice.
4. a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.: a wall of fire; a wall of troops.
5. an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall.
6. the Wall. Berlin Wall.
7. the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object: the wall of a blood cell.
8. Mining.
a. the side of a level or drift.
b. the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall.
–adjective
9. of or pertaining to a wall: wall space.
10. growing against or on a wall: wall plants; wall cress.
11. situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall: wall oven; a wall safe.
–verb (used with object)
12. to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often fol. by in or off): to wall the yard; to wall in the play area; He is walled in by lack of opportunity.
13. to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall: to wall an unused entrance.
14. to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall (usually fol. by up): The workmen had walled up the cat quite by mistake.
—Idioms
15. climb the walls or climb walls, Slang. to become tense or frantic: climbing the walls with boredom.
16. drive or push to the wall, to force into a desperate situation; humiliate or ruin completely: Not content with merely winning the match, they used every opportunity to push the inferior team to the wall.
17. go over the wall, Slang. to break out of prison: Roadblocks have been set up in an effort to capture several convicts who went over the wall.
18. go to the wall,
a. to be defeated in a conflict or competition; yield.
b. to fail in business, esp. to become bankrupt.
c. to be put aside or forgotten.
d. to take an extreme and determined position or measure: I'd go to the wall to stop him from resigning.
19. hit the wall, (of long-distance runners) to reach a point in a race, usually after 20 miles, when the body's fuels are virtually depleted and willpower becomes crucial to be able to finish.
20. off the wall, Slang.
a. beyond the realm of acceptability or reasonableness: The figure you quoted for doing the work is off the wall.
b. markedly out of the ordinary; eccentric; bizarre: Some of the clothes in the fashion show were too off the wall for the average customer.
21. up against the wall,
a. placed against a wall to be executed by a firing squad.
b. in a crucial or critical position, esp. one in which defeat or failure seems imminent: Unless sales improve next month, the company will be up against the wall.
22. up the wall, Slang. into an acutely frantic, frustrated, or irritated state: The constant tension in the office is driving everyone up the wall.
Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE w(e)all < L vallum palisade, deriv. of vallus stake, post; see wale 1 ; (v.) ME, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
wall-less, adjective
wall-like, adjective

Synonyms:
2. battlement, breastwork, bulwark, barrier, bastion. 5. dike. 14. immure.
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wall   (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. A continuous structure of masonry or other material forming a rampart and built for defensive purposes. Often used in the plural.

  3. A structure of stonework, cement, or other material built to retain a flow of water.

    1. Something resembling a wall in appearance, function, or construction, as the exterior surface of a body organ or part: the abdominal wall.

    2. Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength: a wall of silence; a wall of fog.

    3. 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.


[Middle English, from Old English weall, from Latin vallum, palisade, from vallus, stake.]
wall'less adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

wall 
O.E. weall "rampart" (natural as well as man-made), also "defensive fortification around a city, side of a building, interior partition," an Anglo-Frisian and Saxon borrowing (cf. O.S., O.Fris., M.L.G., M.Du. wal) from L. vallum "wall, rampart, row or line of stakes," apparently a collective form of vallus "stake." Swed. vall, Dan. val are from Low Ger. In this case, Eng. uses one word where many languages have two, e.g. Ger. Mauer "outer wall of a town, fortress, etc.," used also in ref. to the former Berlin Wall, and wand "partition wall within a building" (cf. the distinction, not always rigorously kept, in It. muro/parete, Ir. mur/fraig, Lith. muras/siena, etc.). The verb meaning "to enclose in a wall" is late O.E. *weallian. Wallpaper is attested from 1827. Phrase up the wall "angry, crazy" is from 1951; off the wall "unorthodox, unconventional" is recorded from 1966, Amer.Eng. student slang. Wall-to-wall (adj.) recorded 1953, of carpeting; metaphoric use (usually disparaging) is from 1967.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: wall
Pronunciation: 'wol
Function: noun
: a structural layer surrounding a cavity, hollow organ, or mass of material walls> —walled /'wold/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

wall (wôl)
n.
An investing part enclosing a cavity, chamber, or other anatomical unit.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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