wall : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a wall of the abdomen
  

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• noun chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia
  rock polypody; rock brake; Polypodium virgianum.
  

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• noun a fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde); built in 140 to mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain
  

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• noun any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building
  

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• a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.

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• a wall without an opening; a blank wall.

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• noun the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers
  blue wall of silence; blue wall.
  
  • the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up

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• noun the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers
  blue wall of silence; blue wall.
  
  • the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up

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• a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.

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• noun a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them
  

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• noun a rigid layer of polysaccharides enclosing the membrane of plant and prokaryotic cells; maintains the shape of the cell and serves as a protective barrier
  

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• noun a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width
  Great Wall; Chinese Wall.
  

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• (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles.

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• (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings.

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• noun a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses
  drywall; wallboard.
  
• noun a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar
  dry wall.
  

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• noun the activity of building stone walls without mortar
  

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• noun a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar
  dry wall.
  

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• verb construct with drywall
  
  • dry-wall the basement of the house

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• (Arch.), a low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence.

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• a kind of wall, common in England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry.

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• (Mining), the under wall of an inclosed vein.

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• noun the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof
  gable end; gable.
  

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• . Same as Gable (b)

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• noun a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width
  Great Wall; Chinese Wall.
  

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• noun a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width
  Great Wall; Chinese Wall.
  

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• noun an ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the 2nd century; marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain
  

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• noun the upper wall of an inclined fault
  

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• (Mining), the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.

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• noun a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place
  
  • his office was a hole-in-the-wall

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• (Gardening), a wall provided with flues for the conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or the ripening of fruit.

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• (Mining), the wall under a vein; the foot wall. Raymond.

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• the wall of a churchyard or burying ground.

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• (Canal Lock), the cross wall at the head of the lock.

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• (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work progresses, except where passages are needed.

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• adjective satellite conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  gonzo; freakish; eccentric; outre; flaky; outlandish; bizarre; freaky; flakey.
  
  • restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit
  • famed for his eccentric spelling
  • a freakish combination of styles
  • his off-the-wall antics
  • the outlandish clothes of teenagers
  • outre and affected stage antics

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• noun a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners
  

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• . (a) (Arch.) A wall built upon the dividing line between two adjoining properties, usually having half its thickness on each property . (b) (Law) A wall that separates adjoining houses, as in a block or row.

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• noun herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers
  pellitory-of-the-wall; Parietaria difussa; pellitory.
  

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• noun the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater
  proscenium.
  

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• noun a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)
  

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• (Arch. & Engin.), a wall built to keep any movable backing, or a bank of sand or earth, in its place; called also retain wall.

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Sea" wall`

Etymology

AS. s&ae;weall.

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1. A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.

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Sea"-walled` adjective

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1. Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall. Shak.

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• noun showy erect biennial or short-lived perennial cultivated for its terminal racemes of orange-yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus
  Cheiranthus allionii; Erysimum allionii.
  

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• noun a fence built of rough stones; used to separate fields
  

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• a doom pronounced; an omen of disaster.

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• to bring to extremities; to push to extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over.

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• to be hard pressed or driven; to be the weaker party; to be pushed to extremes.

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• . to take the inner side of a walk, that is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence. "I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's." Shak.

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• noun a wall in Jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon
  

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• noun European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows
  Hordeum murinum; barley grass.
  

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• (Bot.), a kind of grass (Hordeum murinum) much resembling barley; squirrel grass. See under Squirrel.

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• . (Mach.) See Wall frame, below.

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• noun a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)
  bracket.
  

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• noun a clock mounted on a wall
  

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• noun crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
  tichodrome; Tichodroma muriaria.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small bright-colored bird (Tichodroma muraria) native of Asia and Southern Europe. It climbs about over old walls and cliffs in search of insects and spiders. Its body is ash-gray above, the wing coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red at the base and black distally, some of them with white spots, and the tail is blackish. Called also spider catcher.

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• (Bot.), a name given to several low cruciferous herbs, especially to the mouse-ear cress. See under Mouse-ear.

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• noun mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
  golden maidenhair; sweet fern; golden polypody; common polypody; adder's fern; Polypodium vulgare.
  

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• (Mach.), a frame set in a wall to receive a pillow block or bearing for a shaft passing through the wall; called also wall box.

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• fruit borne by trees trained against a wall.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Old World geckos which live in or about buildings and run over the vertical surfaces of walls, to which they cling by means of suckers on the feet.

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• noun European perennial subshrub with red-purple or bright rose flowers with red and white spots
  Teucrium chamaedrys.
  

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• noun decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window
  hanging.
  
  • the cold castle walls were covered with hangings

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• verb enclose with a wall
  wall in.
  

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• a knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first; a wale knot. Wall knots may be single or double, crowned or double-crowned.

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• (Zoöl.), a common European lizard (Lacerta muralis) which frequents houses, and lives in the chinks and crevices of walls; called also wall newt.

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• a wood louse.

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• (Bot.), any species of moss growing on walls.

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• (Zoöl.), the wall lizard. Shak.

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• noun the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers
  blue wall of silence; blue wall.
  
  • the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up

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• noun a painting that is applied to a wall surface
  mural.
  

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• noun paneling that forms part of a wall
  

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• paper for covering the walls of rooms; paper hangings.

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• noun herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers
  pellitory-of-the-wall; Parietaria difussa; pellitory.
  

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• (Bot.), a European plant (Parictaria officinalis) growing on old walls, and formerly esteemed medicinal.

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• (Bot.), a plant (Cotyledon Umbilicus) having rounded fleshy leaves. It is found on walls in Western Europe.

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• noun mossy European creeping sedum with yellow flowers; widely introduced as a ground cover
  Sedum acre.
  

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• (Bot.), a low mosslike plant (Sedum acre) with small fleshy leaves having a pungent taste and bearing yellow flowers. It is common on walls and rocks in Europe, and is sometimes seen in America.

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• (Bot.), a kind of fern; wall rue.

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• a gun planted on a wall. H. L. Scott.

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• noun plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load
  

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• (Arch.), a piece of timber placed horizontally upon a wall, and supporting posts, joists, and the like. See Illust. of Roof.

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• noun receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices
  electrical outlet; electric outlet; wall plug; electric receptacle; outlet.
  

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• noun a rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault
  

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• granular limestone used in building walls. U. S. Bartlett.

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• noun yellow-flowered European plant that grows on old walls and in waste places; an adventive weed in North America
  Diplotaxis tenuifolia; Diplotaxis muralis.
  

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• noun small delicate spleenwort found on a steep slope (as a wall or cliff) of Eurasia and North America
  wall rue; Asplenium ruta-muraria.
  

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• (Bot.), a species of small fern (Asplenium Ruta-muraria) growing on walls, rocks, and the like.

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• noun small delicate spleenwort found on a steep slope (as a wall or cliff) of Eurasia and North America
  wall rue; Asplenium ruta-muraria.
  

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• noun receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices
  electrical outlet; electric outlet; wall plug; electric receptacle; outlet.
  

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• a spring of water issuing from stratified rocks.

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• noun a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance
  Wall St..
  

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• noun a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance
  Wall St..
  
• noun used to allude to the securities industry of the United States
  the Street.
  

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• noun a canvas tent with four vertical walls
  

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• a tent with upright cloth sides corresponding to the walls of a house.

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• noun a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room
  

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• verb enclose with a wall
  wall in.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a common European solitary wasp (Odynerus parietus) which makes its nest in the crevices of walls.

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Wall"-eye` noun

Etymology

See Wall-eyed.

Definitions

1. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses. Booth. ✍ Jonson has defined wall-eye to be "a disease in the crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma." But glaucoma is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural blemish. Tully. In the north of England, as Brockett states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch. (b) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus). (c) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.

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Wall"-eyed` adjective

Etymology

Icel. valdeyg&edh;r, or vagleygr; fr. vagl a beam, a beam in the eye (akin to Sw. vagel a roost, a perch, a sty in the eye) + eygr having eyes (from auga eye). See Eye.

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1. Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. Booth. ✍ Shakespeare, in using wall-eyed as a term of reproach (as "wall-eyed rage," a "wall-eyed wretch"), alludes probably to the idea of unnatural or distorted vision. See the Note under Wall-eye. It is an eye which is utterly and incurably perverted, an eye that knows no pity.

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• noun a worker who papers walls
  wallpaperer.
  

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Wall"-plat` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. Prov. Eng.

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Wall"-sid`ed adjective

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1. (Naut.) Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.).

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• noun biennial or short-lived perennial prairie rocket having orange-yellow flowers; western North America to Minnesota and Kansas; sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus
  Erysimum arkansanum; Cheiranthus asperus; Erysimum asperum.
  

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