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| Shopping | The largest selection of WALL products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: Owl Optical Wallet Light, beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | wao'l |
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| Rhymes | albuterol, all, appall, and 94 more rhymes in aol... |
| Meaning | An architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness. Used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure. |
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| Examples | "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls were covered with pictures" |
| Part of | building, edifice; hallway, hall; room |
| Parts | arch, archway; capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher; course, row; doorway, door, room access, threshold; header, coping, cope; paneling, panelling, pane; pier; wainscot, dado; wall panel |
| Broader | partition, divider |
| Narrower | attic; bearing wall; cavity wall; chimney breast; firewall; gable, gable end, gable wall; parapet; proscenium, proscenium wall; sidewall; wainscoting, wainscotting |
| Instances | Wailing Wall; Hadrian's Wall |
| Adjectives | mural |
| Verbs | wall |
| Meaning | An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes. |
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| Examples | "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down" |
| Synonyms | rampart, bulwark |
| Part of | fortification, munition |
| Broader | embankment |
| Narrower | bailey; battlement, crenelation, crenellation; earthwork; fraise; merlon |
| Instances | Antonine Wall; Chinese Wall, Great Wall, Great Wall of China |
| Verbs | wall |
| Meaning | Anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect. |
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| Examples | "a wall of water"; "a wall of smoke"; "a wall of prejudice"; "negotiations ran into a brick wall" |
| Broader | object, physical object |
| Narrower | footwall; hanging wall |
| Meaning | A masonry fence (as around an estate or garden). |
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| Examples | "the wall followed the road"; "he ducked behind the garden wall and waited" |
| Broader | fence, fencing |
| Narrower | party wall; retaining wall |
| Verbs | wall |
| Meaning | (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure. |
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| Examples | "stomach walls" |
| Synonyms | paries |
| Category | anatomy, general anatomy |
| Broader | stratum |
| Narrower | abdominal wall |
| Meaning | A vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain). |
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| Part of | cave |
| Broader | geological formation, formation |
| Meaning | A layer of material that encloses space. |
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| Examples | "the walls of the cylinder were perforated"; "the container's walls were blue" |
| Broader | layer, bed |
| Meaning | A difficult or awkward situation. |
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| Examples | "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall" |
| Broader | difficulty |
| Meaning | Surround with a wall in order to fortify. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | palisade, fence, fence in, surround |
| Broader | protect |
| See also | wall in, wall up |
| Narrower | stockade; circumvallate |
| Nouns | wall; wall; wall |
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