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Noun | 1. | ![]() archway, arch - a passageway under a curved masonry construction; "they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory" attic - (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof bearing wall - any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" cavity wall - a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them chimney breast - walls that project out from the wall of a room and surround the chimney base doorway, room access, door, threshold - the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; "he stuck his head in the doorway" firewall - a fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle hall, hallway - an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall" parapet - a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony partition, divider - a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) pier - (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows) proscenium wall, proscenium - the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" sidewall - a wall that forms the side of a structure dado, wainscot - panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall wainscoting, wainscotting - a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) wall panel - paneling that forms part of a wall |
2. | ![]() object, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" footwall - the lower wall of an inclined fault hanging wall - the upper wall of an inclined fault | |
3. | wall - (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure; "stomach walls" abdominal wall - a wall of the abdomen anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals 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) | |
4. | wall - a difficult or awkward situation; "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall" difficulty - a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties" | |
5. | wall - a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) cave - a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea geological formation, formation - (geology) the geological features of the earth | |
6. | wall - a layer of material that encloses space; "the walls of the cylinder were perforated"; "the container's walls were blue" | |
7. | ![]() party wall - a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners retaining wall - a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) | |
8. | ![]() bailey - the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle battlement, crenelation, crenellation - a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns earthwork - an earthen rampart embankment - a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection fortification, munition - defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it fraise - sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes merlon - a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement | |
Verb | 1. | wall - surround with a wall in order to fortify protect - shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain" stockade - surround with a stockade in order to fortify circumvallate - surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification |