Definition von wall im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- A type of butterfly (Lasiommata megera)
- A temporary impediment to free movement
A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.
- A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure
The wind blew against the walls of the tent.
- To well, as water; spring
- To enclose with a wall
He walled the study with books.
- To boil
- A spring of water
- (with "in") To enclose by surrounding with walls
They had walled in the garden.
- (with "up") To seal with a wall
They walled up the basement space that had been used as a coal bin.
- (with "off") To separate with a wall
The previous owners had walled off two rooms, making an apartment.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction. Also called a chandelier
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc
The town wall was surrounded by a moat.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes
- A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity
The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose trigones at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.
- {i} side support for buildings; barricade; side; partition
- 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. + -walled -walled a glass-walled elevator
- {f} enclose with a wall; divide with a wall, fill up with a wall (doorway, etc.); seal with a wall; fortify; (Slang) lean or stand or sit or rest against a wall at a social gathering
- 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
- {s} of a side support for buildings
- The wall of something that is hollow is its side. He ran his fingers along the inside walls of the box
- {n} a partition of brick fence, defense
- {v} to inclose or defend with a wall
- That portion of the building envelope, including opaque area and fenestration, that is vertical or tilted at an angle of 60° from horizontal or greater This includes above- and below-grade walls, between floor spandrels, peripheral edges of floors, and foundation walls For the purposes of determining building envelope requirements, the classifications are defined as follows
- A vertical structural element that holds up a roof, encloses part or all of a room, or stands by itself to hold back soil
- A line of defenders to prevent a direct kick from scoring
- If a person or company goes to the wall, they lose all their money and their business fails. Even quite big companies are going to the wall these days
- A jump that simulates a solid stone or brick wall
- To separate with a wall"
- The wall of a halfpipe is comprised of a transition and a vertical section
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- emphasis If you say that something or someone is driving you up the wall, you are emphasizing that they annoy and irritate you. The heat is driving me up the wall I sang in the bath and drove my parents up the wall
- A human barrier of at least 3 players, used to aid the goalkeeper in defending against free kicks - when they are specifically so awarded Players may line up 10 or more yards from the ball to form a barrier between the kicker and the goal
- The side of a level or drift
- The line of players used to prevent a direct kick from scoring; lined up 10 yards from where the direct kick is taken
- a line of 2 to 6 defending players pressed together shoulder-to-shoulder to protect their goal against a close free kick; creates a more difficult shot by reducing the amount of open goal area the kicker has to shoot at
- To seal with a wall"
- A defensive formation to block a free kick in which defensive players stand shoulder-to-shoulder between an opposing kicker and the goal
- A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense
- fly on the wall: see fly the writing is on the wall: see writing. wall in to surround an open area with walls wall off to keep one area or room separate from another, by building a wall. Any of various upright constructions used to divide or enclose a room or building. In traditional masonry construction, bearing walls supported the weight of floors and roofs, but modern steel and reinforced-concrete frames, as well as heavy timber and other skeletal structures, require exterior walls only for shelter. Some urban buildings dispense with walls on the ground floor, extending outdoor plazas under the building and permitting easier access to elevators, escalators, and stairs. In masonry construction, all types of floors and roofs except domes are most easily supported on straight, parallel walls. Nonbearing walls, used when loads are carried by girders, beams, or other members, can be either curtain walls or infill of brick, block, or other material. See also cavity wall, retaining wall, shear wall. Antonine Wall bearing wall load bearing wall Berlin Wall cavity wall curtain wall Great Wall of China Hadrian's Wall retaining wall shear wall Wall Street Wall Street Journal The Western Wall Wailing Wall
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure; "stomach walls"
- emphasis 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. 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
- If you have your back to the wall, you are in a very difficult situation and can see no way out of it. Their threat to hire replacement workers has the union with its back to the wall
- Tube / Pipe wall thickness
- A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) a difficult or awkward situation; "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall"
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- the side plane of a subject, having depth and to which a ground junction is made It may also have a surface edge the term may also describe the side walls of an incised letter
- 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 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
- The country rock bounding a vein laterally
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect; "a wall of water"; "a wall of smoke"; "a wall of prejudice"; "negotiations ran into a brick wall"
- 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
- To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall
- A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc
- a layer of material that encloses space; "the walls of the cylinder were perforated"; "the container's walls were blue"
- a rock face angled 60º or more
- A group of defenders standing near shoulder to shoulder in attempt to defend a free kick near the goal
- To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway
- A bounding area of the playing field not protected by a paddle
- A defensive tactic where a line of two to six defending players join shoulder-to-shoulder in an attempt to protect their goal during a free kick The wall is designed to reduce the open goal area the kicker has to shoot at
- A preliminary step before every inflation where the pilot inflate the wing's leading edge and builds tension on the lines A wall allows the pilot to determine that none of the lines are tangled and that the wing tips are not tucked in (cravatted)
- The nominal thickness of the glass between the inside and outside surfaces of the tubing
- It is a type of jump that simulates an actual brick or stonewall
- To enclose by surrounding with walls
- a difficult or awkward situation; "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall"
- An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder
- send a message to everybody's terminal
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- The stack of unused pieces Pieces are taken from the wall in a clockwise fashion, except for the extra piece drawn after a Kong, which is taken from the opposite end
- Group of defenders standing shoulder-to-shoulder to defend a free kick, usually near the goal
- Wall Street
- The physical street in lower Manhattan and the financial institutions located (or formerly located) there
- Wall Street
- : American financial markets, financial institutions as a whole, or by extension, big-business interests
- wall clocks
- plural form of wall clock
- wall energy
- The energy per unit area of the boundary between adjoining ferromagnetic domains in a solid
- wall in
- To enclose by surrounding with walls
They had walled in the garden.
- wall kick
- A sideways movement that results from a rotation of a piece that touches the left or right walls in the video game Tetris
- wall kicks
- plural form of wall kick
- wall of sound
- A popular music production technique, developed in the 1960s, in which a number of guitarists perform the same parts in unison and the resulting sound is re-recorded in an echo chamber
- wall of text
- A large and intimidating piece of writing, particularly one with few or no paragraph breaks
- wall plug
- A fixing that allows screws to be fitted into masonry walls
- wall plugs
- plural form of wall plug
- wall railing
- a hand railing attached to a wall
- wall ride
- A trick where the rider makes the bottom of the board touch the side of a wall
- wall socket
- Any outlet or recess in a wall
- wall socket
- A mains electricity power point mounted in or on a wall inside a dwelling or other building
- wall sockets
- plural form of wall socket
- wall unit
- A set of furniture pieces (bookshelves, cabinet etc.) standing against the wall of a room
- wall wart
- A large power supply
- wall-clock
- Attributive form of wall clock
wall-clock imperturbability.
- wall-pecker
- A person who participated in bringing down the Berlin Wall in November 1989
- wall-to-wall
- pervasive or ubiquitous
The TV showed wall-to-wall coverage of the bombing.
- wall-to-wall
- that covers all of the floor of a room
- wall-to-wall
- You can use wall-to-wall to describe something that fills or seems to fill all the available space. television's wall-to-wall soccer coverage
- wall-louse
- {n} the name of an insect of many feet
- wall flower
- A European plant, Cheiranthus cheiri, of the mustard family, that, when growing wild on walls, cliffs, etc., has sweet-scented, usually yellow or orange flowers, but when cultivated has flowers varying in color from pale yellow to brown-red or purple
- wall off
- Separate with a wall
The previous owners had walled off two rooms, making an apartment.
- wall planner
- A list or chart hanging on a wall with information that is an aid to planning
- Wall Street
- world financial center located in Manhattan (New York City)
- Wall Street
- Wall Street is a street in New York where the Stock Exchange and important banks are. Wall Street is often used to refer to the financial business carried out there and to the people who work there. On Wall Street, stocks closed at their second highest level today Wall Street seems to be ignoring other indications that consumers are spending less. Street in New York City where many major U.S. financial institutions are located. The street, in southern Manhattan, is narrow and short and extends only about seven blocks from Broadway to the East River. It was named for an earthen wall built by Dutch settlers in 1653 to repel an expected English invasion. Even before the Civil War it was recognized as the nation's financial capital, and it remains a worldwide symbol of high finance. The Wall Street, or financial, district contains the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The district is also the headquarters for many investment banks, securities dealers, utilities and insurance companies, and brokerage firms
- Wall Street Crash
- the sudden large fall in the value of company shares on the US Stock Exchange in October 1929. For about two years before this, the price of shares had risen very fast, and when people realized that companies were therefore worth more than their true value, they lost confidence. The severe fall that followed led directly to the Great Depression of the 1930s
- Wall Street Journal
- {i} leading daily newspaper in the United States that focuses on financial and economic matters
- Wall Street Journal
- a respected US daily newspaper, which is also sold in many other countries and which deals mainly with business and economics Financial Times, The
- wall bar
- exercise device made of a series of ladders attached to the wall
- wall box
- {i} (Construction) wall frame, frame fixed in a wall to absorb a bearing for a shaft that passes through the wall; electrical box used to set a switch or outlet on a wall or on ceiling
- wall chart
- tool hung on the wall which aids in teaching and education
- wall clock
- grandfather clock, cuckoo clock, clock that is hanging on the wall
- wall clock
- a clock mounted on a wall
- wall creeper
- A long-billed crimson and gray Old World bird (Tichodroma muraria), of alpine regions, that feeds on insects on rocky cliffs
- wall creeper
- crimson-and-gray songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
- wall eye
- {i} large-eyed North American fish of the perch family; condition of having a light colored eye or a whitish ring around the iris of the eye; condition of having an eye or eyes that turn outward (Ophthalmology)
- wall fern
- A low-growing Eurasian fern (Polypodium vulgare) characterized by creeping stems that form dense mats
- wall flower
- one who does not take an active role at parties, one who sits and does not get up to dance
- wall germander
- European perennial subshrub with red-purple or bright rose flowers with red and white spots
- wall hanging
- A flat decorative object, such as a tapestry, rug, or antique map, hung against a wall
- wall in
- enclose with a wall
- wall in
- If someone or something is walled in, they are surrounded or enclosed by a wall or barrier. He is walled in by a mountain of papers in his cluttered Broadway office
- wall lamp
- light source which is mounted on the wall
- wall map
- large map that hangs on the wall, wall that hangs on a board of maps
- wall of silence
- total silence, refusal to speak by everyone
- wall of water
- large wave or surge of water with a nearly vertical face
- wall painting
- picture that is drawn on a wall
- wall painting
- a picture that has been painted directly onto a wall, especially a fresco = mural
- wall panel
- paneling that forms part of a wall
- wall pellitory
- pellitory-of-the-wall: herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers
- wall pepper
- mossy European creeping sedum with yellow flowers; widely introduced as a ground cover
- wall pier
- {i} (In construction) section of a wall having a horizontal length to thickness ratio between 2.5 and 6 and its clear height is at least 2 times its horizontal length
- wall plate
- plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc , and distribute the load
- wall plate
- A horizontal member, usually of wood, secured to masonry to which the frame construction is attached
- wall plate
- A horizontal timber member placed along the top of a wall to support joists and to spread their load
- wall plate
- A structural timber along the top or bottom of a wall
- wall plate
- and distribute the load
- wall plate
- A horizontal member anchored to a masonry wall to which other structural elements may be attached Also called head plate
- wall plate
- plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc
- wall plug
- receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices
- wall plug
- An electric socket, usually located in a wall, that is connected to and used as a source of electric power
- wall rock
- The rock that forms the walls of a vein or lode
- wall rock
- a rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault
- wall rocket
- yellow-flowered European plant that grows on old walls and in waste places; an adventive weed in North America
- wall rue
- A small, delicate fern (Asplenium ruta-muraria) that grows on rocks or in rocky crevices
- wall rue
- small delicate spleenwort found on a steep slope (as a wall or cliff) of Eurasia and North America
- wall socket
- receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices
- wall street
- The main drag in New York City's financial district, although the term is used mostly to refer to the establishment of investing professionals, frequently referred to around these parts as "The Wise " The street is so named because it was once the site of a wall built in the 1600s by the Dutch to protect what was then New Amsterdam
- wall street
- a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance
- wall street
- Common name for the New York City financial district located in the lower portion of Manhattan (and also the name of an actual street in the area) where the New York and American stock exchanges and many brokerage firms are headquartered It is also a generic term for anything associated with investing or the stock market
- wall street
- Popular name for New York Stock Exchange, which is located at the corner of Board Street and Wall Street Figuratively, Wall Street means high finance
- wall street
- Generic term for firms that buy, sell, and underwrite securities
- wall street
- Famous street in Manhattan's financial district where the New York Stock Exchange is located More generally, the term for high finance--big banks, brokerages, insurance companies and others--and those whose economic interests are identified with high finance
- wall street
- A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch
- wall street
- the popular name for the New York Stock Exchange, or for all the financial institutions in and around this street
- wall street
- used to allude to the securities industry of the United States
- wall street
- used to allude to the securities industry of the United States a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance
- wall street
- The financial district in New York City where the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, and many brokerage firms are located Also a reference to the investment community in general
- wall street
- Nickname for the financial district in lower Manhattan of New York City and the location of the New York Stock Exchange, other markets, and many other investment firms
- wall street
- The financial sector of Mainframe, characterized by the large towers RB: 1
- wall street
- 1: Term used when referring to the investment community as a whole-also referred to as "the Street"
- wall street
- The controlling financial interests of the United States Wall Street itself is located in New York City
- wall street
- It is the chief financial center of the United States, hence the name is often used for the money market and the financial interests of the country
- wall street
- Generic term for the securities industry firms that buy, sell, and underwrite securities
- wall tent
- a canvas tent with four vertical walls
- wall thickness
- The thickness of an insulation or jacket
- wall thickness
- This refers to the overall thickness of the material of the tubing of the body of the instrument Back
- wall thickness
- The thickness of a cylindrical core's wall
- wall thickness
- How thick the shank and head of the ring are in cross section (as if you cut through it) - this gives a good indication of durability
- wall thickness
- The thickness of the applied insulation or jacket material Water Absorption -- A test to determine the water absorbed by a material after a given immersion period Waterblocked Cable -- A cable specially constructed with no internal voids in order to allow no longitudinal water passage under a given pressure
- wall to wall coalition
- agreement in which all parties take part
- wall unit
- a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room
- wall up
- {f} wall in, enclose with a wall
- wall-eyed
- having one or both eyes that seem to point to the side, rather than straight forwards (wall-eyed (14-20 centuries), from vagl-eygr, from vagl + eygr )
- wall-less
- lacking walls; "the wall-less ground floor is open to the winds
- wall-less
- lacking walls; "the wall-less ground floor is open to the winds"
- wall-mounted
- attached to a wall wall-mounted clock/heater/lights etc
- wall-to-wall
- A wall-to-wall carpet covers the floor of a room completely
- wall-to-wall carpet
- carpet that is attached to the floor and covers the entire surface
- wall-to-wall inventory
- (Ticaret) A physical inventory of all items within a given warehouse or facility
- wag-at-the-wall
- Having an exposed pendulum
- Wailing Wall
- wall located in the Old City of Jerusalem which is holy to Jews, western wall, remaining outer wall of the Temple's court-yard
- Wailing Wall
- the Wailing Wall a high stone wall in Jerusalem where Jews go to pray. It is the only remaining part of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem, which was destroyed in AD70
- wailing wall
- a wall in Jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon
- was pushed to the wall
- had his back up against the wall, was under great pressure, had no other choice
- Antonine Wall
- A fortification of stone and turf built by the Roman Empire across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland
- Berlin Wall
- A wall constructed by the Soviet Union to keep East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin
- Berlin Wall
- Any barrier designed to keep people from crossing a border, e.g. the one proposed by some conservatives in the US to keep Mexicans out of their country
- Chinese Wall
- A barrier of silence and secrecy established within an organization in order to cope with confidentiality requirements
The enthusiasm for handy phrases of verbal shorthand is understandable. Occasionally, however, lawyers and judges use a term which is singularly inappropriate. Chinese Wall is one such piece of legal flotsam which should be emphatically abandoned. The term has an ethnic focus which many would consider a subtle form of linguistic discrimination. Certainly, the continued use of the term would be insensitive to the ethnic identity of the many persons of Chinese descent.
- Great Wall
- Shortened form of the Great Wall of China
- Great Wall
- Either of two identified areas containing hundreds of galaxies
- Great Wall of China
- An ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols
- Hadrian's Wall
- A fortification of stone and timber built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England
- abdominal wall
- The layer of muscles that surrounds the abdominal cavity and contains the abdominal organs
- adiabatic wall
- Any interface through which there is no transfer of heat or entropy
- back to the wall
- A situation with no other options remaining
His back to the wall, Ahmedinajad resorted to the tactic favored by cornered politicians everywhere: distract attention from yourself by pointing to a bogeyman.
- back wall
- The wall at the back of a racquetball or squash court, directly opposite the front wall
- balls to the wall
- full throttle; maximum speed
- balls to the wall
- Maximum effort or commitment
I told the staff...the day before the hurricane struck that I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could, that it was balls to the wall, that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do anything—to do everything they humanly could to respond.
- beat one's head against a stone wall
- to waste effort on a futile project
- break the fourth wall
- To apparently communicate with reality directly, such as when characters of literature comment on the existence of a reader
- breaking the fourth wall
- Present participle of break the fourth wall
- breaks the fourth wall
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of break the fourth wall
- brick wall
- An obstacle
They all ran up against the brick wall of high cost until the cryogenic option was proven feasible in 1973. —.
- broke the fourth wall
- Simple past of break the fourth wall
- broken the fourth wall
- Past participle of break the fourth wall
- cavity wall
- A double wall of masonry connected by an air space
- cell wall
- A thick, fairly rigid, layer formed around individual cells of bacteria, Archaea, fungi, plants, and algae (but not animals and other protists which generally have cell membranes without cell walls). The cell wall is external to the cell membrane and serves a structural function helping the cell maintain its shape and protecting the cell from damage
Think of the cell wall as a wicker basket in which a balloon has been inflated so that it exerts pressure from the inside. Such a basket is very rigid and resistant to mechanical damage.
- cell-wall
- Alternative spelling of cell wall
- chest wall
- The set of tissues that bound the thoracic cavity, including the rib cage, fascia, muscles etc
- climbing wall
- An artificial wall used for the sport of climbing
- cosmic wall
- A hypothetical 2-dimensional analog of a cosmic string
- diaphragm wall
- A structure inserted in the ground and used to maintain an excavation open or to isolate portions of contaminated ground. It can be built of any material from steel to reinforced concrete
- domain wall
- An interface separating magnetic domains
A domain wall corresponds to the rotation of the magnetization vector from one magnetic domain to another.
- domain wall
- A two-dimensional singularity hypothesized in string theory
The simplest soliton is the domain wall with co-dimension one, and the next simplest is the vortex with co-dimension two, whereas the co-dimension three (four) soliton is called monopole (instanton).
- drive someone up the wall
- To make a person very angry or bored; to infuriate
There is nothing and no one that's going to shut him up. That's what makes Tucker funny. It's also what can drive you up the wall about him. - , 1998.
- fly on the wall
- A quiet, non-participating, or unseen observer; an eavesdropper or witness
James W. Gerard, ex-Ambassador to Germany, the first speaker of the evening, said that at that moment he would like to be a fly on the wall of the palace at Potsdam to hear what the Potsdam gang were saying about our soldiers.
- fourth wall
- The imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play
There's been a convention in the theater world to think of the division between audience and spectacle as a fourth wall, a wall that the playwright tries to eliminate through the force of his drama.
- fourth wall
- The boundary between the fiction and the audience
I've saved the worst for last. The crudest scheme is to drop the fourth wall and advise players as to actions that are inhibiting.
- fourth-wall
- Alternative spelling of fourth wall
- front wall
- The main and largest wall in a racquetball or squash court, which the ball must hit in a rally
- go to the wall
- To make an all-out effort
That was the one point he was willing to go to the wall on.
- go to the wall
- To fail, to run out of options
- handwriting on the wall
- Alternative form of writing on the wall. A divine prediction or sentence to fate
- hole-in-the-wall
- an automated teller machine (ATM)
- hole-in-the-wall
- a small or obscure place, especially such a restaurant