wall.
A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
Meaning & usage
A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
The town wall was surrounded by a moat.
Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
We're adding another wall in this room during the remodeling. The wind blew against the walls of the tent.
A point of desperation.
A point of defeat or extinction.
An impediment to free movement.
A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.
The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
A barrier.
a seawall; a firewall
Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
a wall of sound; a wall of water; a wall of smoke obscured their view of enemy forces
A means of defence or security.
I built a wall between myself and the bullies.
One of the vertical sides of a container.
A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
A very steep slope.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw. Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.
To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
He walled the study with books.
To use a wallhack.
To wallbang.
I walled her. She's low [health].
Where this word comes from
From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw. Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.
To boil.
To well, as water; spring.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English wallen, from Old English weallan (“to bubble, boil”), from Proto-West Germanic *wallan, from Proto-Germanic *wallaną (“to fount, stream, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“wave”). Cognate with Middle Dutch wallen (“to boil, bubble”), Dutch wellen (“to weld”), German wellen (“to wave, warp”), Danish vælde (“to overwhelm”), Swedish välla (“to gush, weld”). See also well.
A spring of water.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English walle, from Old English *wealla, *weall (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wallô, *wallaz (“well, spring”). See above. Cognate with Old Frisian walla (“spring”), Old English wiell (“well”).
A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
Pronunciation spelling of well.
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