WALL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of wall in English

wall
noun
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/wɑːl/
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a vertical structure, often made of stone or brick, that divides or surrounds something:
The walls in this apartment are so thin you can hear just about every word the neighbours say.
The walls look a bit bare - can't we put some pictures up?
We had to climb over a ten-foot wall to get into the garden.
The Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
 
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[ C ]
any outer part of a hollow structure in the body:
the wall of the uterus/stomach
an artery wall
[ C ]
a mass of people or things formed in such a way that you cannot get through or past them:
The demonstrators formed a solid wall to stop the police from getting past them.
[ C ]
in football, a row of players who stand ten yards away from where a free kick is taken in order to make scoring directly from the free kick more difficult:
Rooney curved the free kick past the Newcastle defensive wall and inside the far post.
 
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a large, powerful, usually fast moving mass of something:
After the rains, the houses were washed away by a wall of mud/water.
[ S ]
a way of feeling or behaving that completely prevents two groups of people from communicating with or understanding each other:
There is a wall of mistrust between the two groups.
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drive someone up the wall
go to the wall
hit the wall
off the wall
walls have ears
(Definition of wall from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

wall | American Dictionary

wall
noun [ C ]
us
/wɔl/
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a vertical structure that divides or encloses something:
The walls of the fortress were more than eighteen inches thick.
We’d like the walls painted white.
A wall of people or things is a mass of them formed in such a way that you cannot get through or past them:
(Definition of wall from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

wall | Business English

wall
noun [ C ]
uk
/wɔːl/ us
go to the wall UK informal
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if a business goes to the wall, it goes bankrupt:
After twelve months of big losses, the company went to the wall.
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Chinese wall
hit the wall
party wall
(Definition of wall from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of wall

wall
Huge sections of the outer walls had collapsed and other parts were in very poor shape.
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They are located approximately in. from the walls.
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The flow is exposed to a uniform magnetic field which is oriented perpendicular to two duct walls and aligned with the non-conducting cylinder.
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Structures resembling bronchioles and distended alveoli are present between cysts, no cartilage present in the walls.
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There is another consequence of the greater sensitivity of anisotropic compliant walls to damping.
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They are usually accompanied by relatively low pressure at their centres, and are a major source of momentum transport towards the walls.
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Our analysis can also be extended, with not much effort, to include the effect of lateral walls.
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Polymer solutions were injected through flush-mounted, angled slots located in both of the 57.5 cm walls of the channel.
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Numerous semi-public courtyards are also located along the southern, eastern and western walls of this palace.
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Numerous courtyards as well as major and minor dividing walls are again clear throughout this palace.
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The designer, who draws walls or furniture or writes captions, never specifies the significance of his or her actions.
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An example proper ty set for walls specified by the estimator from the drywall case example.
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The architect also decided to use the ductwork's ribs to echo the crenellated walls of the atrium's interior.
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They are attached to the vein walls and embedded in carbonates just like the carbonaceous filaments.
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A portion of the subpalisade cells below the chalazal area never developed secondary cell walls.
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Collocations with wall

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abdominal wall
The cardinal features are abdominal wall defects, macroglossia and gigantism.
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adobe wall
It was recovered from an old adobe wall three meters from the northern edge of the ziggurat.
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anterior wall
A longitudinal pulmonary arteriotomy was made on the anterior wall of the aneurysmally dilated right and left pulmonary arteries.
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Translations of wall

in Chinese (Traditional)
牆，牆壁，圍牆, （身體中中空結構的）壁, 人牆…
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墙，墙壁，围墙, （身体中中空结构的）壁, 人墙…
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muro, pared, barrera defensiva…
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壁, 塀, 壁（かべ）…
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duvar, etrafını duvarla çevirmek…
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mur [masculine], mur(aille), mur…
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ஒரு செங்குத்து அமைப்பு, பெரும்பாலும் கல் அல்லது செங்கலால் ஆனது, அது எதையாவது பிரிக்கிறது அல்லது சுற்றுகிறது…
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mur, -mur, væg…
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mur, vägg, omge med mur…
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tembok, benteng, dinding…
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die Mauer, die Wand, ummauern…
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vegg [masculine], mur [masculine], mur…
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стіна, обгороджувати стіною…
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стена, ограда…
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zeď, stěna, obezdít…
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bức tường, tường nhà, xây tường bao quanh…
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ściana, mur, otoczyć murem…
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muro, parete, murare…
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