wall in
墙内,墙在,墙上的,墙面上的
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Definitions
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- : 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.
- : Usually walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes.
- : an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall: a wall of prejudice.
- : a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.: a wall of fire; a wall of troops.
- : an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall.
- : the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object: the wall of a blood cell.
- : Soccer. a line of defenders standing shoulder to shoulder in an attempt to block a free kick with their bodies.
- : Mining. the side of a level or drift.the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall.
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- : of or relating to a wall: wall space.
- : growing against or on a wall: wall plants; wall cress.
- : situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall: wall oven; a wall safe.
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- : to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc., with or as if with a wall: to wall the yard; to wall in the play area; He is walled in by lack of opportunity.
- : to seal or fill with a wall: to wall an unused entrance.
- : to seal or entomb within a wall: The workmen had walled up the cat quite by mistake.
Phrases
- walls have ears, the
- back to the wall
- beat one's head against the wall
- between you and me and the lamppost (four walls)
- climb the walls
- drive someone crazy (up the wall)
- fly on the wall
- go to the wall
- handwriting on the wall
- hole in the wall
- off the wall
- run into a stone wall
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Mount them on the wall in your kiddo’s bedroom, or build a backyard climbing wall like this one.
Drone imagery alone can’t establish whether rituals occurred at the buried earthwork or if, perhaps, non-combatants hid behind walls along its borders when the site was attacked.
This universal wall offers a lifetime’s worth of routes, from V4 to V14, on an eight-by-twelve-foot surface.
Recently, the actor let down his walls a bit to tell the story of how he met his wife, Tomasina Tate, 20 years ago—a fate made possible by fellow actor Jamie Foxx.
Ocean Spray isn’t the only legacy brand looking to build out new brands within its walls.
A Wall Street person should not be allowed to help oversee the Dodd-Frank reforms.
It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
It reminded me a bit of an alternative take on The Wolf of Wall Street—through the Toni and Candace lens.
Marvin hops over the edge of his retaining wall, which he built.
He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.
He leant against the wall of his refuge, notwithstanding this boast, and licked the ice to moisten his parched lips.
A little boy aged two years and four months was deprived of a pencil from Thursday to Sunday for scribbling on the wall-paper.