English > wall: 9 senses > noun 1, artifact| 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"
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| Instances | Hadrian's Wall | An ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the 2nd century |
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| Wailing Wall | A wall in Jerusalem |
| Part of | building, edifice | A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place |
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| hallway, hall | An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open |
| room | An area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling |
| Parts | arch, archway | A passageway under a curved masonry construction |
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| capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher | A stone that forms the top of wall or building |
| course, row | (construction) a layer of masonry |
| doorway, door, room access, threshold | The entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building |
| header, coping, cope | brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall |
| paneling, panelling, pane | A panel or section of panels in a wall or door |
| pier | (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows) |
| wainscot, dado | panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall |
| wall panel | paneling that forms part of a wall |
| Narrower | attic | (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature |
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| bearing wall | Any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
| 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 |
| firewall | A fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle |
| gable, gable end, gable wall | The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
| parapet | A low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony |
| proscenium, proscenium wall | The wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
| sidewall | A wall that forms the side of a structure |
| wainscoting, wainscotting | A wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) |
| Broader | partition, divider | A vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) |
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| Spanish | muralla, muro, pared |
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| Catalan | mur, paret |
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| Adjectives | mural | of or relating to walls |
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| Verbs | wall | surround with a wall in order to fortify |
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English > wall: 9 senses > noun 8, artifact| Meaning | An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes. |
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| Example | "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down" |
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| Synonyms | rampart, bulwark |
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| Instances | Antonine Wall | A fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde) |
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| Chinese Wall, Great Wall, Great Wall of China | A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC |
| Part of | fortification, munition | defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it |
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| Narrower | bailey | The outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle |
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| battlement, crenelation, crenellation | A rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps / gaps for firing arrows or guns |
| earthwork | An earthen rampart |
| fraise | sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes |
| merlon | A solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement |
| Broader | embankment | A long artificial mound of stone or earth |
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| Spanish | baluarte, bastión, muralla, muro |
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| Catalan | muralla, mur |
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| Verbs | wall | surround with a wall in order to fortify |
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English > wall: 9 senses > verb 1, competition| Meaning | Surround with a wall in order to fortify. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonyms | palisade, fence, fence in, surround |
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| Narrower | circumvallate | Surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification |
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| stockade | Surround with a stockade in order to fortify |
| Broader | protect | shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage / damage |
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| See also | wall in, wall up | enclose with a wall |
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| Spanish | cercar, circundar, murar, rodear |
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| Catalan | circumdar, emmurallar, encerclar, envoltar, murar, voltar |
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| Nouns | wall | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness |
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| wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes |
| wall | a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden) |
