Usually means: Structure dividing spaces, provides security.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. wall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wall: Merriam-Webster
  3. wall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wall: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wall: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wall, wall: Wordnik
  8. wall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Wall: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Wall, wall: Wiktionary
  11. wall: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. wall: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. wall: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Wall, wall, the wall: Dictionary.com
  15. wall: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. wall: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. The Wall (A Song of Ice and Fire), The Wall (American game show), The Wall (Australian game show), The Wall (British game show), The Wall (Heroes), The Wall (Pink Floyd), The Wall (Sartre short story collection), The Wall (SoHo), The Wall (Steppenwolf song), The Wall (TV film), The Wall (TV series), The Wall (The Twilight Zone), The Wall (UK game show), The Wall (Willie Nelson song), The Wall (band), The Wall (film), The Wall (game show), The Wall (mountain), The Wall (novel), The Wall (short story collection), The Wall, The wall (album), The wall, WALL, Wall (Chinese constellation), Wall (Unix), Wall (Western Sahara), Wall (disambiguation), Wall (play), Wall (surname), Wall (wrestler), Wall: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Wall: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. wall: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. wall: Rhymezone
  21. wall: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. wall: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Wall: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. wall: FreeDictionary.org
  25. wall: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. The Wall, wall: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. wall: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. The Wall, WALL (AM), wall: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wall: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. wall: CCI Computer
  3. The Wall (Washington, DC), The Wall, WALL (AM), wall: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. wall: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. The Wall, WALL (AM), wall: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. WALL: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. The Wall, wall: Idioms
  4. United States Postal Service Official Abbreviations (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wall: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wall: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. W'all, the-wall: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Snowboarding Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Wall: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. WALL: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  3. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
noun:  A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
noun:  Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
noun:  A point of desperation.
noun:  A point of defeat or extinction.
noun:  An impediment to free movement.
noun:  The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
noun:  (often in combination) A barrier.
noun:  Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
noun:  (figurative) A means of defence or security.
noun:  One of the vertical sides of a container.
noun:  (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
noun:  A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
noun:  (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
noun:  (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
noun:  (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
noun:  (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
noun:  (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
noun:  (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
noun:  (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
noun:  (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
noun:  (cycling) A very steep slope.
verb:  To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
verb:  (video games, slang) To use a wallhack.
verb:  (video games, slang, transitive) To wallbang.
verb:  To boil.
verb:  To well, as water; spring.
noun:  (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
noun:  (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place in England:
noun:  A village in Gwinear-Gwithian parish, south-west Cornwall (OS grid ref SW6036).
noun:  A village and civil parish in south Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9169); part of Hadrian's Wall is in the parish.
noun:  A village and civil parish in the City of Lichfield district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0906).
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
noun:  A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tom Green County, Texas.
noun:  (history, slang) the Berlin Wall.
noun:  (slang) the Trump Wall.
noun:  (slang) the Great Wall of China.
noun:  (astronomy) A Chinese constellation located near Pegasus and Andromeda, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.

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