Wall Definition–noun | 1. | any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc. | | 2. | Usually, walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes. | | 3. | an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall: a wall of prejudice. | | 4. | a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.: a wall of fire; a wall of troops. | | 5. | an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall. | | 7. | the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object: the wall of a blood cell. | | 8. | Mining. | a. | the side of a level or drift. | | b. | the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall. | | –adjective | 9. | of or pertaining to a wall: wall space. | | 10. | growing against or on a wall: wall plants; wall cress. | | 11. | situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall: wall oven; a wall safe. | –verb (used with object) | 12. | to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often fol. by in or off): to wall the yard; to wall in the play area; He is walled in by lack of opportunity. | | 13. | to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall: to wall an unused entrance. | | 14. | to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall (usually fol. by up): The workmen had walled up the cat quite by mistake. | —Idioms | 15. | climb the walls or climb walls, Slang. to become tense or frantic: climbing the walls with boredom. | | 16. | drive or push to the wall, to force into a desperate situation; humiliate or ruin completely: Not content with merely winning the match, they used every opportunity to push the inferior team to the wall. | | 17. | go over the wall, Slang. to break out of prison: Roadblocks have been set up in an effort to capture several convicts who went over the wall. | | 18. | go to the wall, | a. | to be defeated in a conflict or competition; yield. | | b. | to fail in business, esp. to become bankrupt. | | c. | to be put aside or forgotten. | | d. | to take an extreme and determined position or measure: I'd go to the wall to stop him from resigning. | | | 19. | hit the wall, (of long-distance runners) to reach a point in a race, usually after 20 miles, when the body's fuels are virtually depleted and willpower becomes crucial to be able to finish. | | 20. | off the wall, Slang. | a. | beyond the realm of acceptability or reasonableness: The figure you quoted for doing the work is off the wall. | | b. | markedly out of the ordinary; eccentric; bizarre: Some of the clothes in the fashion show were too off the wall for the average customer. | | | 21. | up against the wall, | a. | placed against a wall to be executed by a firing squad. | | b. | in a crucial or critical position, esp. one in which defeat or failure seems imminent: Unless sales improve next month, the company will be up against the wall. | | | 22. | up the wall, Slang. into an acutely frantic, frustrated, or irritated state: The constant tension in the office is driving everyone up the wall. | | From Dictionary
Covering Definition–noun | 1. | something laid over or wrapped around a thing, esp. for concealment, protection, or warmth. | | 2. | Mathematics. cover (def. 50). | | 3. | the buying of securities or commodities that one has sold short, in order to return them to the person from whom they were borrowed. | | From Dictionary
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