wall

Significado (Inglés)

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. A barrier.
9. Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
10. 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. (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. 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. (slang) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
21. The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
22. A very steep slope.

Verb

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

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.

Conceptos

pared

muro

muralla

cerca

tabique

barrera

murar

cercar

tapia

amurallar

taqique

saltacercas

mural

seto

fortaleza

rodear

pared de piedra

cerco

cerramiento

corral

empalizada

muro de piedra

pared de ramas o cañas

quincha

vallado

circundar

terraplén

obstrucción

reja

division

mariposa saltacercas

puerta

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wɔːl/

Etimología (Inglés)

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.