| 单词 | wall |
| 释义 | wall (once / 29 pages) nv WORD FAMILY wall: walled, walling, walls USAGE EXAMPLESObama also saw off the possibility of another major crisis in the financial sector with tough new rules on Wall Street in the Dodd-Frank Act. The Guardian(Jan 03, 2017) Wall, the team’s leading assist man, is the key to the success of the other Wizards. New York Times(Jan 03, 2017) On Monday morning, the NBA announced Wall and Harden as the Eastern and Western Conference players of the week, respectively. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1n an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure the south wall had a small window the walls were covered with pictures Exp|Hypo|Hyper Wailing Wall 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 Hadrian's Wallan ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the 2nd century; marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain attic (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof bearing wallany wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building cavity walla wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them chimney breastwalls that project out from the wall of a room and surround the chimney base firewalla fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle gable, gable end, gable wallthe vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof parapeta low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony proscenium, proscenium wallthe wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater sidewalla wall that forms the side of a structure wainscoting, wainscottinga wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) bell gablean extension of a gable that serves as a bell cote corbie gable(architecture) a gable having corbie-steps or corbel steps pedimenta triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof divider, partition a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) 2n a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) Hyper formation, geological formation (geology) the geological features of the earth 3n a layer of material that encloses space the walls of the cylinder were perforated the container's walls were blue Hyper bed, layer single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance 4n a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden) the wall followed the road he ducked behind the garden wall and waited Hypo|Hyper party wall a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners retaining walla wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) fence, fencing a barrier that serves to enclose an area 5n an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper bulwark, rampart Antonine Wall 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 Great Wall of Chinaa fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width bailey the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle battlement, crenelation, crenellationa rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns earthworkan earthen rampart fraisesloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes merlona solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement sconcea small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate embankment a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection 6n (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure stomach walls Syn|Hypo|Hyper paries abdominal wall a wall of the abdomen stratum one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock) 7n anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect a wall of water a wall of smoke a wall of prejudice negotiations ran into a brick wall Hypo|Hyper footwall the lower wall of an inclined fault hanging wallthe upper wall of an inclined fault object, physical object a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow 8n a difficult or awkward situation his back was to the wall competition was pushing them to the wall Hyper difficulty a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome 9v surround with a wall in order to fortify Syn|Hypo|Hyper fence, fence in, palisade, surround stockade surround with a stockade in order to fortify circumvallatesurround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification protect shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage |
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