Definitions for Wall

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Wall wall

Spelling: [wawl]

IPA: /wɔl/

Wall is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in Wall (allw).

Definitions for Wall

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:
4. a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.:
5. an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall.
6. the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object:
7. Soccer. a line of defenders standing shoulder to shoulder in an attempt to block a free kick with their bodies.
8. Mining. the side of a level or drift. the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall.

Idioms

1. climb (the) walls, Slang. to become tense or frantic:
2. drive / push to the wall, to force into a desperate situation; humiliate or ruin completely:
3. go over the wall, Slang. to break out of prison:
4. go to the wall, to be defeated in a conflict or competition; yield. to fail in business, especially to become bankrupt. to be put aside or forgotten. to take an extreme and determined position or measure:
5. 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.
6. off the wall, Slang. beyond the realm of acceptability or reasonableness: markedly out of the ordinary; eccentric; bizarre:
7. up against the wall, placed against a wall to be executed by a firing squad. in a crucial or critical position, especially one in which defeat or failure seems imminent:
8. up the wall, Slang. into an acutely frantic, frustrated, or irritated state:

adjective

1. of or relating to a wall:
2. growing against or on a wall:
3. situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall:

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often followed by in or off):
2. to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall:
3. to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall (usually followed by up):

Origin of Wall

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English w(e)all Latin vallum palisade, derivative of vallus stake, post; see wale¹; (v.) Middle English, derivative

Examples for Wall

“It is not about Crimea, the West wants our skins hanging on the wall,” he said.

Take my bridle off the wall, you, Jeff, and throw it at my feet.

The Wolf of wall Street is a dangerous, incendiary work of art.

A wall Street person should not be allowed to help oversee the Dodd-Frank reforms.

It's lucky the captain knows nothing of my wall Street speculations.

We'll put it across that corner, and have the couch against that wall.

It reminded me a bit of an alternative take on The Wolf of wall Street—through the Toni and Candace lens.

Percival, with his new air of wall Street operator, was inclined to hesitate.

But much as he yearned to do so, he dared not search the wall.

Is it on the side of the people or wall Street and the big banks?