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Cosa (chi) è WALLS - definizione

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Walls (disambiguation); Walls (album); Walls (song); WALLS; Walls (film)

wall

VERTICAL STRUCTURE, USUALLY SOLID, THAT DEFINES AND SOMETIMES PROTECTS AN AREA

Wall railings; Parietes; Interior wall; Brick Wall; Partition wall; Dwarf wall; Precast Compound Wall

A circle of people meant to keep someone out.
Our group made a wall because Pasty was coming.

wall

VERTICAL STRUCTURE, USUALLY SOLID, THAT DEFINES AND SOMETIMES PROTECTS AN AREA

Wall railings; Parietes; Interior wall; Brick Wall; Partition wall; Dwarf wall; Precast Compound Wall

¦ noun

1. a continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land.

a side of a building or room.

2. a protective or restrictive barrier likened to a wall: a wall of silence.

3. Soccer a line of defenders forming a barrier against a free kick taken near the penalty area.

4. Anatomy & Zoology the membranous outer layer or lining of an organ or cavity.

5. Mining the rock enclosing a lode or seam.

6. another term for wall brown.

¦ verb enclose within walls.

?(wall something up) block or seal a place by building a wall.

?(wall someone in/up) confine someone in a restricted or sealed place.

Phrases

drive someone (or go) up the wall informal make someone (or become) very irritated or angry.

go to the wall informal (of a business) fail; go out of business.

hit the wall (of an athlete) experience a sudden loss of energy in a long race.

off the wall N. Amer. informal

1. eccentric or unconventional.

2. angry.

wall-to-wall (of a carpet) fitted to cover an entire floor.

?informal very numerous or plentiful.

Derivatives

walling noun

Origin

OE: from L. vallum 'rampart', from vallus 'stake'.

wall

VERTICAL STRUCTURE, USUALLY SOLID, THAT DEFINES AND SOMETIMES PROTECTS AN AREA

Wall railings; Parietes; Interior wall; Brick Wall; Partition wall; Dwarf wall; Precast Compound Wall

(walls)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

A wall is one of the vertical sides of a building or room.

Kathryn leaned against the wall of the church...

The bedroom walls would be painted light blue...

She checked the wall clock.

N-COUNT

• -walled

...a glass-walled elevator...

COMB in ADJ

2.

A wall is a long narrow vertical structure made of stone or brick that surrounds or divides an area of land.

He sat on the wall in the sun...

N-COUNT

3.

The wall of something that is hollow is its side.

He ran his fingers along the inside walls of the box.

N-COUNT: with supp

4.

A wall of something is a large amount of it forming a high vertical barrier.

She gazed at the wall of books...

I was just hit by a wall of water.

N-COUNT: with supp, usu N of n

5.

You can describe something as a wall of a particular kind when it acts as a barrier and prevents people from understanding something.

The police say they met the usual wall of silence...

N-COUNT: with supp, usu N of n

6.

see also cavity wall
, dry-stone wall
, fly-on-the-wall
, hole-in-the-wall
, off-the-wall
, retaining wall
, sea wall
, stonewall
, wall-to-wall

7.

If you say that you are banging your head against a wall, you are emphasizing that you are frustrated because someone is stopping you from making progress in something. (INFORMAL)

I appealed for help but felt I was always banging my head against a wall...

I wondered if I was banging my head against a brick wall.

PHRASE: V inflects, usu cont [emphasis]

8.

If you have your back to the wall, you are in a very difficult situation and can see no way out of it. (INFORMAL)

Their threat to hire replacement workers has the union with its back to the wall.

PHRASE: back inflects

9.

If you say that something or someone is driving you up the wall, you are emphasizing that they annoy and irritate you. (INFORMAL)

The heat is driving me up the wall...

I sang in the bath and drove my parents up the wall.

PHRASE: V inflects [emphasis]

10.

If a person or company goes to the wall, they lose all their money and their business fails. (INFORMAL)

Even quite big companies are going to the wall these days.

PHRASE: V inflects

11.

fly on the wall: see fly

the writing is on the wall: see writing

Wikipedia

Walls

Walls may refer to:

The plural of wall, a structure
Walls (surname), a list of notable people with the surname

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls

Esempi dal corpus di testo per WALLS

1. "I don‘t go to public walls or government building walls.

2. Now the outside walls of the museum have cut granite walls.

3. The plaster started to crack on the walls and the ceiling and pictures fell of the walls.

4. It recognizes the need for security walls, yet fears what these walls conceal on the other side.

5. The walls were now barren other than the hooks and nails protruding from the walls that once supported those memories.