wall

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
2. A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
3. Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
4. A point of desperation.
5. A point of defeat or extinction.
6. An impediment to free movement.
7. The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
8. (in-compounds, often) A barrier.
9. Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
10. (figuratively) A means of defence or security.
11. One of the vertical sides of a container.
12. A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
13. A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
14. (US, slang) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
15. A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
16. Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
17. Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
18. (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
19. A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
20. Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
21. (definite, slang) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
22. (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.
23. A very steep slope.

Verb

1. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
2. (slang) To use a wallhack.
3. (slang, transitive) To wallbang.

Verb

1. To boil.
2. To well, as water; spring.

Verb

To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).

Intj

Pronunciation spelling of well.

Conceptes

paret

mur

emmurallar

muralla

embà

murar

encerclar

obstacle

separador

voltar

circumdar

envoltar

Oposat a

sieve

Sinònims

fence

partition

barrier

enclosure

rampart

side

fortification

hedge

walling

palisade

bulwark

paries

fortress

mural

obstacle

block

bar

barricade

surround

pen

🖊️

wall in

city

🏙️

fence in

wall brown

fencing

room

screen

septum

castle

🏰

house

🏠

immure

layer

level

lift

obstruction

paling

panel

partition wall

ply

poster

railing

resistance

retrenchment

roadblock

row

sheet

shield

🛡️

stele

stonewall

stone wall

Traduccions

mur

Mauer

pared

Wand

muro

parede

muro

parete

paroi

muur

wand

muralla

τοίχος

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/wɔːl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: wal

Heretat de anglès antic: weall

Cognat amb frisó septentrional: wal

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Waal

Cognat amb neerlandès: wal

Cognat amb alemany: Wall

Cognat amb suec: vall

Heretat de anglès mitjà: wallen

Heretat de anglès antic: weallan

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: wallen

Cognat amb neerlandès: wellen

Cognat amb alemany: wellen

Cognat amb danès: vælde

Cognat amb suec: välla

Heretat de anglès mitjà: walle

Heretat de anglès antic: *wealla

Cognat amb Old Frisian: walla

Cognat amb anglès antic: wiell

In summary

From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw.
Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.

Frases

They fortified the city with a wall with ten gates .

The plush chair leaned against the wall .

Next to a bright red couch , a gray wall will appear distinctly greenish .

The biggest bedroom had a small , ornate fireplace on one wall which had seen recent use judging by the ashes crumbling in the grate .