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A wall in a room which has a style distinctly different from the other walls.
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A wall just inside the doorway of a traditional Balinese building, supposed to keep out hyangs, which can only move in straight lines.
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(historical) Synonym of Berlin Wall (from the perspective of East Germany).
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(derogatory, geopolitics) A separation barrier built by the Israeli government in the West Bank
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An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
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To shelter or enclose in a basin.
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(politics) Any barrier designed to keep people from crossing a border, e.g. the one proposed to keep people from crossing from Mexico into the United States.
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A wall, typically built outside of a harbour, that diminishes damage due to battering by the waves
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(figuratively) An obstacle.
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(nonstandard) Alternative form of brick wall [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, wall. A wall made of bricks.]
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A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
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Alternative form of Chinese Wall (“information barrier within an organization”). [(idiomatic, jargon) An information barrier within an organization, designed to ensure internal confidentiality; frequently used to prevent conflicts of interest.]
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(idiomatic, jargon) An information barrier within an organization, designed to ensure internal confidentiality; frequently used to prevent conflicts of interest.
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(transitive) To surround with, or as if with, a rampart.
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(usually in the plural) A wall around a city, built to define the city's boundaries, and sometimes to protect it from aggressors.
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Synonym of wall of silence
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(transitive) To fortify with a wall behind another wall.
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(architecture) A blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings.
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A temporary barrier used to surround troops or protect battlements, often with spikes on the outside to prevent the enemy from scaling it.
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A low wall, often used in gardens.
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(civil engineering) headwall
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Synonym of Chinese wall (“information barrier protocol”)
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Synonym of Chinese wall (“information barrier protocol”)
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(historical) The deconstruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and 1990.
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(by extension) The boundary between the fiction and the audience.
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Alternative spelling of fourth wall [(performing arts, idiomatic) The imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play.]
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To be executed by firing squad
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To take an extreme and determined position or measure.
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A wall as foundation; a foundation.
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Alternative form of hanging wall [(geology) The section of rock that extends above a diagonal fault line (the corresponding lower section being the footwall).]
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An interior or exterior wall of a house.
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Alternative spelling of house wall [An interior or exterior wall of a house.]
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Alternative spelling of house wall [An interior or exterior wall of a house.]
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A walling up or immuring.
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A space fenced in, such as by palings, possibly in the form of an enclosure or cup.
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(transitive, obsolete) To enclose (cisterns, fountains, etc.).
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A maze whose walls are made up of two or more disconnected sections, so that it cannot necessarily be escaped by consistently following one wall.
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A low wall made of Jersey barriers used to separate lanes of traffic.
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(obsolete) An upper part; ceiling.
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Surrounded with a moat
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(transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
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Alternative spelling of office wall [An office wall: one of the walls of an office.]
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(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of office wall [An office wall: one of the walls of an office.]
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The region above a mantlepiece.
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The wall of any cavity in the body.
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Surrounding an entrance
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(construction) A wall of low height, not extending all the way from floor to ceiling.
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A thin barrier of concrete or similar material, buried around a building's foundation to keep rats out.
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Any of several structures used to restrain a vertical-faced mass of earth.
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(transitive) To provide with new walls.
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Alternative spelling of seawall [A coastal defence in the form of a wall or an embankment.]
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Temporary bracing used to prevent something, such as a tunnel, trench, or wall, from collapse.
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The wall forming the side of a structure; a side wall.
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A wall intended to block sound from entering an area.
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(UK, Potteries, agricultural) stuck astride a wall whilst attempting to climb over it.
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Having (a specified kind or number of) stairs.
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Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
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(transitive) To enclose in a stockade.
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Alternative spelling of stone wall [A wall made from stone.]
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Surrounded or defined in size and shape by a wall of stone.
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(architecture) One of the long side boundaries of a street, formed by buildings, hedges, etc.
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A large slab of stone laid in a dry-stone wall from one side to the other; a perpend.
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A low retaining wall, e.g. at the bottom of a slope or cliff.
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A protective barrier that is used to protect against and impede the travel of a tsunami wave
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(anatomy, zoology, botany) A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
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To enclose by surrounding with walls.
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To separate with a wall.
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(transitive) To seal with a wall.
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The walkway along the top of a defensive wall, normally shielded by a parapet on one side; the allure.
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A person who participated in bringing down the Berlin Wall in November 1989.
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(mathematics) A discontinuous change across a codimension wall of marginal stability.
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A garden enclosed by walls for purposes of shelter or decoration.
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Alternative form of wall piece [Synonym of wall gun]
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(rare) An area for storage that is recessed into a wall.
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(obsolete) walls collectively
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facing, located at, or taking place at or near a wall (e.g. a cell wall or the wall of a stream of fluid)
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An architectural feature consisting of a wall down which water flows.
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(Northern England, dialectal, possibly obsolete) To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around).
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The falling in of the wall of a fortification.
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