英语词汇“wall”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	wall
释义	wall I. \ˈwȯl\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English weall rampart, wall; akin to Old Saxon wal rampart, Middle High German wall; all from a prehistoric West Germanic word borrowed from Latin vallum rampart set with palisades, wall, from vallus stake, palisade; akin to Sanskrit vala beam, pole, Gothic walus stick, staff, Old Norse völr round stick, valr round, Latin volvere to roll — more at voluble 1. a. (1) : a high thick masonry structure forming an enclosure chiefly for defense against invasion < hurled stones and spears at the attackers from the wall > — usually used in plural < citizens ran to defend the walls of the city > (2) : a masonry fence around a garden, park, or estate < the wall of the villa follows the road for miles > b. : a rampart of considerable height and thickness and usually great length serving as a fortification (as on a border between territories or countries) < the great Chinese wall extended for more than 1500 miles > c. : a structure that serves to hold back pressure (as of water or sliding earth) — see retaining wall, seawall 2. : a vertical architectural member used to define and divide space < a continuously curving wall gives the building its shape > especially : one of the sides of a room or building that connects the floor and ceiling or foundation and roof < the inside walls are all movable — London Calling > < the house has a glass wall facing the garden > — see cavity wall, faced wall, nonbearing partition, party wall, storage wall 3. : the side of a footpath next to buildings < the passenger who takes the wall brushes the dim glass with his sleeve — Charles Dickens > 4. a. : an extreme or desperate position — usually used in the phrase to the wall < schools whose teachers … were driven to the wall financially — Dixon Wecter > < pushing them to the wall in the competitive struggle — T.W.Arnold > b. : a state of defeat, failure, or ruin — usually used in the phrase to the wall < let the weakest go to the wall — Art & Industry > < since the war, several … magazines have gone to the wall — P.W.Crowcroft > 5. walls plural : a physical, intellectual, or spiritual area of influence < evident to those outside our academic walls — J.B.Conant > 6. a. : the external layer of structural material surrounding an object < surgical instruments for penetrating the wall of the body > < muscle wall > — often used in plural < staves form the walls of a barrel > < stomach walls > b. (1) : one of the surfaces of country rock lying adjacent to a vein, ore deposit, or coal seam (2) : one of the surfaces of a geological fault zone — see footwall, hanging wall 7. a. (1) : something resembling a wall in appearance < a towering mountain wall > < a wall of water, 75 feet high, … rushed upon the city — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < a stream flowing between the valley walls > (2) : something that resembles a wall in function especially by establishing limits or providing defense < a sovereign state would be outside the American tariff walls — S.F.Bemis > < two men hurt on the football team's forward wall > < going through the enemy's wall in linear formation — Tom Wintringham > b. : something immaterial or intangible that acts as a barrier to communication, understanding, or accomplishment < the wall of reserve the old man had built around himself — Ben Riker > < break down the wall of condescension — Charles Angoff > < unable to break through the wall of employer resistance — Frank O'Leary > 8. : the arrangement of tiles previous to the drawing of hands in a Mah-Jongg game II. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English wallen, from wall, n. 1. a. : to provide or cover with a wall < to keep out street noises … the house was walled on that facade — Current Biography > b. : to surround or confine with or as if with walls : hem in — usually used with in < planning to wall in the garden for privacy > < a lake walled in by snow-covered peaks > < was walled in by authority — W.P.Webb > c. : to separate or shut out by means of or as if by means of a wall : partition — usually used with off < walled off half the house to make two apartments > < walled off their world … from the rest of human society — H.S.Truman > d. : to border or form a boundary on in the manner of a wall : bound < tall chestnut trees wall the broad avenue > 2. a. : to shut behind a wall : seal within or as if within walls : immure, incarcerate — usually used with up < had walled the monster up within the tomb — E.A.Poe > < compelled … to spend their time walling up this danger — Lillian Smith > b. : to seal up (an opening) with or as if with a wall < walled up the crevice — Oliver La Farge > 3. : to cover the walls of (a room) with something < this study is walled with books — Lucien Price > Synonyms: see enclose III. adjective : of or relating to a wall : beside, attached to, or growing on a wall < wall cabinets > < a wall clock > < wall plants > IV. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English (Scots) wawlen, probably from Middle English wawil- (in wawil-eghed walleyed) — more at walleyed *transitive verb* : to roll (one's eyes) in or as if in expression of emotion < mooning about, … playacting and walling her eyes — Frances G. Patton > *intransitive verb* of the eyes : to roll in a dramatic manner < big eyes would wall up to the ceiling with a look of fear in them — Carson McCullers > V. noun (-s) : wall knot VI. noun • - up against the wall - up the wall
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