wall

wall is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
2. noun. A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
3. noun. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
4. noun. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
5. noun. The side of a level or drift.
6. noun. The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
7. transitive verb. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
8. transitive verb. To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
9. transitive verb. To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
10. noun. an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes

    "they stormed the ramparts of the city"

    "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"

    Synonyms: bulwark, rampart

11. noun. an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure

    "the south wall had a small window"

    "the walls were covered with pictures"

12. noun. a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)

    "the wall followed the road"

    "he ducked behind the garden wall and waited"

13. noun. a layer of material that encloses space

    "the walls of the cylinder were perforated"

    "the container's walls were blue"

14. noun. (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure

    "stomach walls"

    Synonyms: paries

15. noun. anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect

    "a wall of water"

    "a wall of smoke"

16. noun. a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
17. noun. a difficult or awkward situation

    "his back was to the wall"

    "competition was pushing them to the wall"

18. verb. surround with a wall in order to fortify

    Synonyms: fence, palisade, surround

Synonyms

bulwark, rampart, paries, fence, palisade, surround

Common word forms

walls, walled, waller, wallful, walling, wallise

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