Wall | Mean of wall in English Dictionary
/ˈwɑːl/
- Noun
- a structure of brick, stone, etc., that surrounds an area or separates one area from another
- A stone wall marks off their property.
- the Great Wall of China
- the walls of the ancient city
- The wave was like a wall of water.
- The police formed a human wall around him.
- His suggestion was met with a wall of silence. [=was met with complete silence]
- a wall of sound
- He built an emotional wall [=barrier] around himself.
- the structure that forms the side of a room or building
- She hung posters on the walls of her room.
- This apartment building has thin walls, and you can hear everything your neighbors say.
- A lot has happened inside these four walls. [=inside this room]
- Lower your voice and be careful what you say. The walls have ears. [=other people could be listening to what you say]
- the outer layer of something that is hollow (such as a part of the body or of a plant)
- plant cell walls
- Muscles in the abdominal wall help protect organs.
- to make (someone) irritated, angry, or crazy
- Your constant tapping is driving me up the wall!
- Her voice drives me up a wall. [=her voice is very annoying to me]
- to make every possible effort to achieve something, to win, etc.
- He's prepared to go to the wall to defend his beliefs.
- to fail because of a lack of money
- a company that has gone to the wall
- to reach a point at which you find it very difficult or impossible to continue
- He worked late every day and took frequent business trips for several years before he finally hit the wall.
- They seem to have hit the wall in terms of new ideas.
- Her tennis career hit a wall after the injury.
- in a very bad position or situation
- The team was up against a wall in the first half of the game.
- Verb
- to surround (something) with a wall or with something that is like a wall
- The school grounds are walled in.
- They walled the garden in with rows of thick shrubs.
- to separate (something) from the area around it with a wall
- The school walled off the playground from the parking lot.
- to close off (an opening) by filling it with stone, brick, etc.
- They walled up the doorway of the abandoned house.
- to keep (someone) as a prisoner in an enclosed space
- He was walled up in the tower. [=was locked inside the tower]
Những từ liên quan với WALL
bank, blockade, panel, enclosure, side, stop, fence, hurdle, screen, barrier, restriction, bar, facade, embankment, fortification