wall

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

muro

parete

muraglia

mura

fortificazione

barriera

difesa

cerchia

⭕

cinta

circondare di mura

parato

vallo

muro di pietra

recinto

circondare

murare

ostacolo

palizzata

parete di canne

partitura

steccato

parete di rami

delimitatore

accerchiare

baluardo

bastione

cerchia muraria

impalcatura di giunchi

Opposto di

sieve

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

mur

Mauer

Wand

pared

parede

muro

paroi

muur

muralla

wand

paret

τοίχος

duvar

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/wɔːl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: wal

Ereditato da inglese antico: weall

Affine frisone settentrionale: wal

Affine saterfriesisch: Waal

Affine olandese: wal

Affine tedesco: Wall

Affine svedese: vall

Ereditato da inglese medio: wallen

Ereditato da inglese antico: weallan

Affine olandese medio: wallen

Affine olandese: wellen

Affine tedesco: wellen

Affine danese: vælde

Affine svedese: välla

Ereditato da inglese medio: walle

Ereditato da inglese antico: *wealla

Affine Old Frisian: walla

Affine inglese antico: 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.

Frasi

They fortified the city with a wall with ten gates .

Hanno fortificato la città con un muro con dieci porte.

The plush chair leaned against the wall .

La peluche si appoggiò al muro.

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

Accanto a un divano rosso brillante, un muro grigio apparirà distintamente verdastro.

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

La più grande camera da letto aveva un piccolo camino decorato su una parete che aveva visto un uso recente a giudicare dalle ceneri che si sgretolavano nella griglia.