Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
- 4noun
An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
- 5noun
The side of a level or drift.
- 6noun
The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
- 7transitive verb
To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
- 8transitive verb
To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
- 9transitive verb
To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
- 10noun
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"
- 11noun
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"
- 12noun
a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
"the wall followed the road"
"he ducked behind the garden wall and waited"
- 13noun
a layer of material that encloses space
"the walls of the cylinder were perforated"
"the container's walls were blue"
- 14noun
(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
"stomach walls"
Synonyms
- 15noun
anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
"a wall of water"
"a wall of smoke"
- 16noun
a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- 17noun
a difficult or awkward situation
"his back was to the wall"
"competition was pushing them to the wall"
- 18verb
surround with a wall in order to fortify
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