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wall off

/wawl/US // wɔl //UK // (wɔːl) //

关墙,墙关,隔离墙关闭,隔离墙

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.
    • : 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.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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

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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.