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wall

(wôl)

1. An upright structure of masonry, wood, plaster, or other building material serving to enclose, divide, or protect an area, especially a vertical construction forming an inner partition or exterior siding of a building.

2. often walls A continuous structure of masonry or other material forming a rampart and built for defensive purposes.

3. A structure of stonework, concrete, or other material built to retain a flow of water.

a. Something resembling a wall in appearance, function, or construction, as the exterior surface of a body organ or part: the abdominal wall.

b. Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength: a wall of silence; a wall of fog.

c. An extreme or desperate condition or position, such as defeat or ruin: driven to the wall by poverty.

5. Sports The vertical surface of an ocean wave in surfing.

tr.v. walled, wall·ing, walls

1. To enclose, surround, or fortify with or as if with a wall: wall up an old window. See Synonyms at enclose.

2. To divide or separate with or as if with a wall. Often used with off: wall off half a room.

3. To confine or seal behind a wall; immure: «I determined to wall [the body] up in the cellar» (Edgar Allan Poe).

4. To block or close (an opening or passage, for example) with or as if with a wall.

Idioms:

off the wall Slang

1. Extremely unconventional.

2. Without foundation; ridiculous: an accusation that is really off the wall.

up the wall Slang

Into a state of extreme frustration, anger, or distress: tensions that are driving me up the wall.

writing/handwriting on the wall

An ominous indication of the course of future events: saw the writing on the wall and fled the country.

[Middle English, from Old English weall, from Latin vallum, palisade, from vallus, stake. Idiom, in reference to an incident in the Bible (Daniel 5) in which a hand writes mysterious words on the wall of Belshazzar’s banquet hall and the prophet Daniel interprets them as predicting the king’s downfall.]

wall′less adj.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

wall

(wɔːl)

1. (Building)

a. a vertical construction made of stone, brick, wood, etc, with a length and height much greater than its thickness, used to enclose, divide, or support

b. (as modifier): wall hangings. mural

2. (Fortifications) (often plural) a structure or rampart built to protect and surround a position or place for defensive purposes

3. (Anatomy) anatomy any lining, membrane, or investing part that encloses or bounds a bodily cavity or structure: abdominal wall. Technical name: paries

4. (Mountaineering) mountaineering a vertical or almost vertical smooth rock face

5. anything that suggests a wall in function or effect: a wall of fire; a wall of prejudice.

6. bang one’s head against a brick wall to try to achieve something impossible

7. drive to the wall push to the wall to force into an awkward situation

8. drive up the wall slang to cause to become crazy or furious

9. (Banking & Finance) go to the wall to be ruined; collapse financially

10. go up the wall slang to become crazy or furious

11. have one’s back to the wall to be in a very difficult situation

vb (tr)

14. to protect, provide, or confine with or as if with a wall

15. (Building) (often foll by up) to block (an opening) with a wall

16. (Building) (often foll by: in or up) to seal by or within a wall or walls

[Old English weall, from Latin vallum palisade, from vallus stake]

walled adj

ˈwall-less adj

ˈwall-ˌlike adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

wall

(wɔl)
n.

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.

2. an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall: a wall of prejudice.

3. a wall-like enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.: a wall of fire; a wall of troops.

4. an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall.

5. Usu., walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes.

6. the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object: the wall of a blood cell.

adj.

7. of or pertaining to a wall.

8. growing against or on a wall: wall plants.

9. situated or installed in or on a wall: a wall oven.

v.t.

10. to enclose, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often fol. by in or off): to wall in the playground.

11. to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall: to wall an unused entrance.

12. to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall; immure (usu. fol. by up).

Idioms:

1. climb the walls, Informal. to become tense or frantic.

2. go to the wall,

a. to be defeated; yield.

b. to fail in business; be forced into bankruptcy.

c. to risk one’s own position to defend or protect another.

3. hit the wall, to reach a point in a long-distance race when the body’s fuels are virtually depleted and willpower becomes crucial to the ability to finish.

4. off the wall, Slang.

a. unreasonable; crazy.

b. eccentric; bizarre.

5. up the wall, Informal. into a state of frantic frustration.

[before 900; Middle English; Old English w(e)all (c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon wal) < Latin vallum palisade, derivative of vallus stake, post]

wall

— Comes from Latin vallum, «rampart.»

Wall

something that represents a wall in appearance.

Examples: black wall of forest, 1859; wall of fog, 1903; of rock, 1860; of snow, 1697; of soldiers, 1797; of water, 1859.

wall

Past participle: walled
Gerund: walling

Imperative
wall
wall

Present
I wall
you wall
he/she/it walls
we wall
you wall
they wall

Preterite
I walled
you walled
he/she/it walled
we walled
you walled
they walled

Present Continuous
I am walling
you are walling
he/she/it is walling
we are walling
you are walling
they are walling

Present Perfect
I have walled
you have walled
he/she/it has walled
we have walled
you have walled
they have walled

Past Continuous
I was walling
you were walling
he/she/it was walling
we were walling
you were walling
they were walling

Past Perfect
I had walled
you had walled
he/she/it had walled
we had walled
you had walled
they had walled

Future
I will wall
you will wall
he/she/it will wall
we will wall
you will wall
they will wall

Future Perfect
I will have walled
you will have walled
he/she/it will have walled
we will have walled
you will have walled
they will have walled

Future Continuous
I will be walling
you will be walling
he/she/it will be walling
we will be walling
you will be walling
they will be walling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been walling
you have been walling
he/she/it has been walling
we have been walling
you have been walling
they have been walling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been walling
you will have been walling
he/she/it will have been walling
we will have been walling
you will have been walling
they will have been walling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been walling
you had been walling
he/she/it had been walling
we had been walling
you had been walling
they had been walling

Conditional
I would wall
you would wall
he/she/it would wall
we would wall
you would wall
they would wall

Past Conditional
I would have walled
you would have walled
he/she/it would have walled
we would have walled
you would have walled
they would have walled

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

wall

Line-up of defending players between the ball and the goal to block a free kick at goal. All opponents must be at least 29.5 ft from the ball.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	wall — an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure; «the south wall had a small window»; «the walls were covered with pictures» archway, arch — a passageway under a curved masonry construction; «they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory» attic — (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof bearing wall — any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building building, edifice — a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; «there was a three-story building on the corner»; «it was an imposing edifice» coping stone, capstone, copestone, stretcher — a stone that forms the top of wall or building cavity wall — a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them chimney breast — walls that project out from the wall of a room and surround the chimney base row, course — (construction) a layer of masonry; «a course of bricks» doorway, room access, door, threshold — the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; «he stuck his head in the doorway» firewall — a fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle gable, gable end, gable wall — the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof hall, hallway — an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; «the elevators were at the end of the hall» cope, coping, header — brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall paneling, panelling, pane — a panel or section of panels in a wall or door parapet — a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony partition, divider — a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) pier — (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows) proscenium wall, proscenium — the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater room — an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; «the rooms were very small but they had a nice view» sidewall — a wall that forms the side of a structure dado, wainscot — panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall wainscoting, wainscotting — a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) wall panel — paneling that forms part of a wall
	2.	wall — 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» object, physical object — a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; «it was full of rackets, balls and other objects» footwall — the lower wall of an inclined fault hanging wall — the upper wall of an inclined fault
	3.	wall — (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure; «stomach walls» paries abdominal wall — a wall of the abdomen anatomy, general anatomy — the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals stratum — one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
	4.	wall — a difficult or awkward situation; «his back was to the wall»; «competition was pushing them to the wall» difficulty — a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one’s ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; «grappling with financial difficulties»
	5.	wall — a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) cave — a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea geological formation, formation — (geology) the geological features of the earth
	6.	wall — a layer of material that encloses space; «the walls of the cylinder were perforated»; «the container’s walls were blue» layer, bed — single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; «slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach»
	7.	wall — a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden); «the wall followed the road»; «he ducked behind the garden wall and waited» fence, fencing — a barrier that serves to enclose an area party wall — a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners retaining wall — a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)
	8.	wall — an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; «they stormed the ramparts of the city»; «they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down» bulwark, rampart bailey — the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle battlement, crenelation, crenellation — a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns earthwork — an earthen rampart embankment — a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection fortification, munition — defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it fraise — sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes merlon — a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement
Verb	1.	wall — surround with a wall in order to fortify palisade, fence in, fence, surround protect — shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage; «Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain» stockade — surround with a stockade in order to fortify circumvallate — surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification wall in, wall up — enclose with a wall

wall

drive someone up the wall (Informal) infuriate, madden, exasperate, get on your nerves (informal), anger, provoke, annoy, irritate, aggravate (informal), incense, enrage, gall, rile, drive you crazy (informal), nark (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), be like a red rag to a bull, make your blood boil, get your goat (slang), drive you insane, make your hackles rise, raise your hackles, piss your off (taboo slang), send off your head (slang), get your back up, make you see red (informal), put your back up That tuneless humming of his drives me up the wall.

go to the wall (Informal) fail, close down, go under, go out of business, fall, crash, collapse, fold (informal), be ruined, go bust (informal), go bankrupt, go broke (informal), go into receivership, become insolvent Even big companies are going to the wall these days.

off the wall comical, eccentric, wacky (slang), oddball (informal), funny, out there (slang), crazy, loony (slang), nutty (slang), zany, madcap, goofy (informal), kooky (U.S. informal), clownish, wacko or whacko (informal) his particular brand of off-the-wall humour

wall something or someone in enclose, surround, bound, fence, hedge, encompass, encircle, encase, impound, pen in, circumscribe, hem in, shut in The garden is walled in to create a feeling of privacy.

wall something up close, block off or up, secure, seal, shut up They had walled up the room for fear of infection.

Related words
adjective mural

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

wall

noun

1. A solid structure that encloses an area or separates one area from another:

2. Something that impedes or prevents entry or passage:

bar, barricade, barrier, block, blockage, clog, hamper, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, snag, stop, traverse.

verb

1. To separate with or as if with a wall:

2. To confine within a limited area.In or up:

3. To shut in with or as if with bars:

Translations

جدارجِدارجِدار، سورحائِطيُحيط بِجِدار

zeďbariérahradbastěna

murvæg=-mur

seinämuuriruostepapurikko

zid

falfallal körülvesz

veggurveggur, múrgirîa afmúrmúra

壁城壁

벽

murusvallum

apjuostas sienaaptvertasbūti priremtam prie sienosiš protoišklijuoti apmušalais

sienauzcelt/uzmūrēt sienumūris

múrohradiť/obohnať múrom

zidstena

väggmur

กำแพง

duvaretrafını duvarla çevirmeksur

bức tường

Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

wall

[ˈwɔːl] n

[building] → mur m
There was a picture on the wall → Il y avait une photo sur le mur.
the bedroom walls → les murs de la chambre

(free-standing) → mur m
He climbed over the garden wall → Il escalada le mur du jardin.

[tunnel, cave] → paroi f

[stomach, chest, organ] → paroi f

to go to the wall (= go bust) [business] → être en pleine faillite

to bang one’s head against a wall → se taper la tête contre les murs

to have one’s back to the wall → être le dos au mur

to be climbing the walls → être dans tous ses états

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

wall

wall chart

n → Plantafel f

wall

wallflower

n (Bot) → Goldlack m; (fig inf) → Mauerblümchen nt (inf)

wall lamp

n → Wandleuchte f

wall of death

n → Todeswand f

wall

wallpaper

n → Tapete f; (Comput) → Hintergrundbild nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

wall

[wɔːl]

2. adj (clock) → a muro

wall off vt + adv (area of land) → recingere con un muro

wall up vt + adv (entrance) → murare

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

wall

(woːl) noun

1. something built of stone, brick, plaster, wood etc and used to separate off or enclose something. There’s a wall at the bottom of the garden: The Great Wall of China; a garden wall.

2. any of the sides of a building or room. One wall of the room is yellow – the rest are white.

verb

(often with in) to enclose (something) with a wall. We’ve walled in the playground to prevent the children getting out.

walled adjective

a walled city.

-walled

having (a certain type or number of) wall(s). a high-walled garden.

ˈwallpaper noun

paper used to decorate interior walls of houses etc. My wife wants to put wallpaper on the walls but I would rather paint them.

verb

to put such paper on. I have wallpapered the front room.

ˌwall-to-ˈwall adjective

(of a carpet etc) covering the entire floor of a room etc.

have one’s back to the wall

to be in a desperate situation. The army in the south have their backs to the wall, and are fighting a losing battle.

up the wall

crazy. This business is sending/driving me up the wall!

wall

→ جِدار zeď mur Mauer τοίχος pared seinä mur zid muro 壁 벽 muur vegg ściana parede стена vägg กำแพง duvar bức tường 墙壁

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

wall

n. pared; tabique;

___ tooth → diente molar.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

wall

n pared f; abdominal — pared abdominal; chest — pared torácica

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Britannica Dictionary definition of WALL

[count]

a structure of brick, stone, etc., that surrounds an area or separates one area from another

A stone wall marks off their property.
the Great Wall of China
the walls of the ancient city

— often used figuratively

The wave was like a wall of water.
The police formed a human wall around him.
His suggestion was met with a wall of silence. [=was met with complete silence]
a wall of sound
He built an emotional wall [=barrier] around himself.

—

see also climbing wall, fire wall, retaining wall, seawall

the structure that forms the side of a room or building

She hung posters on the walls of her room.
This apartment building has thin walls, and you can hear everything your neighbors say.
A lot has happened inside these four walls. [=inside this room]
Lower your voice and be careful what you say. The walls have ears. [=other people could be listening to what you say]

the outer layer of something that is hollow (such as a part of the body or of a plant)

plant cell walls
Muscles in the abdominal wall help protect organs.

back is to/against the wall

—

see ¹back

climbing the walls

—

see ¹climb

drive (someone) up a/the wall

informal

to make (someone) irritated, angry, or crazy

Your constant tapping is driving me up the wall!
Her voice drives me up a wall. [=her voice is very annoying to me]

fly on the wall

—

see ³fly

to make every possible effort to achieve something, to win, etc.

He’s prepared to go to the wall to defend his beliefs.

British

to fail because of a lack of money

a company that has gone to the wall

to reach a point at which you find it very difficult or impossible to continue

He worked late every day and took frequent business trips for several years before he finally hit the wall.
They seem to have hit the wall in terms of new ideas.
Her tennis career hit a wall after the injury.

the writing/handwriting is on the wall

see/read the writing/handwriting on the wall

— used to say that it is clear that something bad will probably happen soon

I haven’t lost my job yet, but the writing is on the wall: my company just laid off 50 more people today.
No one told him he was going to be fired, but he could see the writing on the wall.

up against a/the wall

informal

in a very bad position or situation

The team was up against a wall in the first half of the game.

Britannica Dictionary definition of WALL

wall (something) in

wall in (something)

to surround (something) with a wall or with something that is like a wall

The school grounds are walled in.
They walled the garden in with rows of thick shrubs.

wall (something) off

wall off (something)

to separate (something) from the area around it with a wall

The school walled off the playground from the parking lot.

wall (something) up

wall up (something)

to close off (an opening) by filling it with stone, brick, etc.

They walled up the doorway of the abandoned house.

wall (someone) up

wall up (someone)

to keep (someone) as a prisoner in an enclosed space

He was walled up in the tower. [=was locked inside the tower]

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Noun

A stone wall marks off their property.

the Great Wall of China

the walls of the ancient city

She hung posters on the walls of her room.

This apartment building has thin walls, and you can hear everything your neighbors say.

Muscles in the abdominal wall help protect organs.

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The leaders of New York’s Hasidic community have built scores of private schools to educate children in Jewish law, prayer and tradition — and to wall them off from the secular world.

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Confronted with foreign bodies, the brain mounts an inflammatory response called gliosis, wrapping cells like astrocytes and microglia around the electrodes to wall them off.

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What help arrived from Iran and Russia was not nearly enough, exposing the limits of the alliances Assad had relied on to wall himself off from most of the world.

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What help arrived from Iran and Russia was not nearly enough, exposing the limits of the alliances Mr. al-Assad had relied on to wall himself off from most of the world.

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The leaders of New York’s Hasidic community have built scores of private schools to educate children in Jewish law, prayer and tradition — and to wall them off from the secular world.

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The leaders of New York’s Hasidic community have built scores of private schools to educate children in Jewish law, prayer and tradition — and to wall them off from the secular world.

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The leaders of New York’s Hasidic community have built scores of private schools to educate children in Jewish law, prayer and tradition — and to wall them off from the secular world.

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The bankruptcy judge in Texas, Christopher M. Lopez, is expected to determine whether Jones engaged in fraudulent tactics designed to wall off assets from creditors.

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A word wall is a literacy tool composed of an organized collection of words which are displayed in large visible letters on a wall, bulletin board, or other display surface in a classroom.

What are word wall examples?

Typically word walls take up a large space in the classroom, and the words are listed alphabetically by letter. For example, the words friend, family and finish would all be under the letter F.

What is the point of a word wall?

Word walls are used to recognize and spell high frequency words as well as to assist students in seeing patterns and relationships in words. Word Wall displays can be used as an easy reference for spelling when students write.

How do you make a word wall?

To make a word wall:

Place the word wall in an area of the classroom that is visible and accessible and use a dark background to make the words stand out.
Organize high frequency words in alphabetical order to support students’ knowledge of the alphabetic principle.

What is a word wall for vocabulary?

Word Walls are a collection of words displayed somewhere in the classroom that can be vocabulary significant to the students. “They serve as an excellent source of information for students attempting to analyze unknown words, spell unfamiliar words, or define new vocabulary» (Yates, Cuthrell, & Rose, 2011).

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What is a word wall for high school?

A word wall is a group of words that are displayed on a wall, bulletin board, chalkboard, or whiteboard in a classroom. The words are printed in a large font so that they are easily visible from all student seating areas.

What is a interactive word wall?

An interactive word wall is basically a large graphic organizer displaying critical vocabulary on the wall. It is thematic or unit-based and includes pictures or graphics related to the words. The benefits of an interactive word wall are outstanding for all students, not just language learners!

Is Word Wall free?

1- Wordwall requires an account. It is for free, but only 6 templates can be used; otherwise, you have to pay. 2- Once you log in, you click the light-blue box (Create Activity).

What is a word wall and what is its main purpose quizlet?

It connects words, phrases and clauses and shows the relationship between the connected elements.

What does research say about word walls?

One study showed that students in special education classrooms who use word walls were able to retain the meaning of vocabulary words 75% of the time (Eustace-DeBaun, 2017). For this study, the students used an interactive word wall, and thus were active participants in using the word wall.

Are word walls necessary?

Beyond being displays that can accompany teacher presentations or memory aids that kids can turn to when in need, word walls have one more possible benefit; a possibility noted in your letter. Word walls can provide valuable opportunities for learning or self-teaching, if you will.

Is a word wall a formative assessment?

word wall together

These sheets track instruction and may be used as formative assessments.

How do you make a word wall in middle school?

Divide students into groups, and have group one write the word (maybe graffiti style or symbolically), ask group two to draw a picture, have group three write down related words, and so on. Leave space between the words, and throughout the year, have students add examples they find that relate to the words on the wall.

What is a word wall for kindergarten?

A word wall is a collection of words which are displayed in large visible letters on a wall, bulletin board, or other display surface in a classroom. The word wall is designed to be an interactive tool for students and contains an array of words that can be used during writing and reading.

How do I make my word wall interactive?

3 Ways to Make Your Word Wall More Interactive

#1: Categorize the Words in Unique Ways. The words on your word wall have so many attributes besides definitions. …
#2: Let Students Add to Each Word. …
#3: Keep Word Tallies.

What is Word Wall app?

Wordwall is a free online tool for creating learning activities. With this tool, teachers can enter the topic that they would like to cover in class into the Wordwall and receive a variety of ready-made, fully customisable activities such as quizzes, word games, maze chases and much more.

Can I cancel Wordwall?

Is there a contract or can I cancel anytime? There is no contract. At any point you can cancel and no further payments will be taken. To do this go to Manage Payments in the top-right account menu then click Cancel Subscription.

Why are interactive word walls important?

— The purpose of an interactive word wall is to have students grapple with vocabulary that they’re working on in class in an engaging and hands-on way. They’re really illustrating the connection with those arrows. Some connections the students are able to make regularly would be cause and effect relationships.

What is a personal word wall?

Instead of having a spot on the wall for each letter, my students use a personal word wall in a folder. The folder is organized just like a word wall. The folder has a square for each letter. There are also categories on the word wall for color and number words, days of the week and months of the year.

How do you use Word sorts?

Introducing a Word Sort

Copy and Cut Words Apart. …
Introduce the Patterns. …
Introduce Head Words or Familiar Words. …
Sort All the Words by their Visual Pattern. …
Focus on the Sounds of the Patterns. …
Introduce Vocabulary. …
Form Generalizations. …
Child Re-Sorts Independently.

Who developed the Word Wall Strategy?

One method of teaching high-frequency or sight words is through the use of a Word Wall, a strategy presented by Patricia Cunningham in her book Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing.

How do kindergarten teachers build children’s sight vocabulary?

Our Best Tips For Teaching Sight Words

Practice them every day with these three basic steps.
Use our simple Sight Word Books: Each book highlights one sight word and uses a predictable pattern. …
Reinforce with Games: It takes a lot of practice to learn a sight word.

What can I use instead of word wall?

A sound wall is a place where the different speech sounds (phonemes) are displayed. Instead of the traditional word wall, where words are displayed on a wall organized by their first letter, you display the different speech sounds using phoneme cards and organize words based on their sounds.

Источник

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɔːl/
(General American) IPA^(key): /wɔl/
(cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /wɑl/
Rhymes: -ɔːl

Etymology 1[edit]

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.

Noun[edit]

A stone wall

wall (plural walls)

A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.

The town wall was surrounded by a moat.
- 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
  
  From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.

We’re adding another wall in this room during the remodeling. The wind blew against the walls of the tent.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  
  […] St. Bede’s at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger’s mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess‎^[1]:
  
  Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
A point of desperation.
A point of defeat or extinction.
- March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:
  
  They want Abramovich out for obvious reasons, including the optics, and they do not want to send Chelsea to the wall as they consider the club to be of cultural significance to the country.
An impediment to free movement.

A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.
The butterfly Lasiommata megera.

Synonym: wall brown
- 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:
  
  Researchers found that 15 of 17 species which commonly live on farmland – including the small tortoiseshell, small skipper and wall butterfly – show declines associated with increasing neonic use.
(often in combination) A barrier.

a seawall; a firewall
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A barrier to vision.
Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.

a wall of sound; a wall of water
(anatomy, zoology, botany) A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4-5:
  
  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.
(auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.

Synonym: chandelier
(US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.

Antonym: sieve
(soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2-0 West Brom”, in BBC:
  
  Blackburn were the recipients of another dose of fortune when from another Thomas pass Odemwingie was brought down by Jones inside the penalty area, but referee Mark Clattenburg awarded a free-kick which Chris Brunt slammed into the wall.
(roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- 2013, Ellen Parnavelas, The Roller Derby Athlete (page 48)
  
  It can also be used to maintain the presence of a wall when one of the blockers who makes up the wall is picked off by an opposing blocker attempting to shut down the wall.
(mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
(Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
(role-playing games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
(slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- 1996 December 27, “The Definitive Answer to «Why Nice Guys Finish Last»”, in alt.romance, Usenet‎^[4]:
  
  Depreciation of assets happens. Prepare yourself
  Marla. Get ready for the wall.
- 2001 February 2, “what a drag it is getting old”, in soc.singles, Usenet‎^[5]:
  
  At what age would you peg the
  ‘wall‘ to be for men, on or thereabouts?
- 2001 June 19, “the laws of biomechanics”, in soc.singles, Usenet‎^[6]:
  
  I have never had a problem getting the attention of men. I’m 44
  and there’s no wall staring me in the face
- 2002 January 22, “towards a useful smv metric”, in soc.singles, Usenet‎^[7]:
  
  That was only six
  years later and Natasha is not near the wall yet
- 2015 July 20, “catcalls are bad”, in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet‎^[8]:
  
  As for the wall….Im convinced part of this is just something us guys tell ourselves to ‘get back'(in our minds) at all the girls who wouldn’t sleep with us 5-10 years ago
(historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian.
- 1822, The Pamphleteer (page 118)
  
  All persons, in walking the streets, whose right sides are next the wall, are intitled to take the wall.
- 2017, Catharina Löffler, Walking in the City (page 135)
  
  Taking the wall thus was also a social distinction. An entire episode in the second book is therefore dedicated “to whom to give the wall” and “to whom to refuse the wall” (II. 4564).

Synonyms[edit]

(rampart): rampart
(fictional bidder at an auction): chandelier
(personal notice board): profile

Meronyms[edit]

(rampart): terreplein (level walkway); parapet, crenellation (minor secondary wall protecting the terreplein); banquette (area elevated above the terreplein for use by defenders)

Derived terms[edit]

abdominal wall
accent wall
adiabatic wall
Apartheid Wall
back to the wall
back wall
backs to the wall
balls to the wall
bang one’s head against a brick wall
beat one’s head against a stone wall
Berlin Wall
Bloch wall
block wall
blue wall
blue wall of silence
bounce off the walls
break the fourth wall
breast wall
brick wall
brick-wall limiter
café wall illusion
cavity wall
cell wall
cell-wall
chest wall
Chinese wall
city wall
climb the walls
climbing wall
cookie wall
cosmic wall
curtain wall
dead wall
diaphragm wall
domain wall
drive someone up the wall
dry stone wall
dry wall
drywall
dwarf wall
ethical wall
fall of the wall
feature wall
fifth wall
firewall
flower wall
fly on the wall
force someone’s back to the wall
four-wall
fourth wall
fourth wall joke
fourth-wall
front wall
fruit wall
get the wall
go to the wall
Great Wall of China
green wall
Hadrian’s Wall
handwriting on the wall
hanging wall
Heddon-on-the-Wall
hit a brick wall
hit a wall
hit the wall
hole-in-the-wall
hot wall
house wall
house-wall
Jersey wall
jersey wall
knee wall
know someone from a hole in the wall
ladder wall
ledger wall
like speaking to a brick wall
like talking to a brick wall
like talking to a wall
living wall
nail Jell-O to a wall
nail someone to the wall
Néel wall
off the wall
off-the-wall
office wall
office-wall
paper wall
party wall
paywall
pellitory of the wall
pick bids off the wall
piss money up the wall
piss something up the wall
pony wall
power wall
primary cell wall
rat wall
red wall
retaining wall
Rockwall
rope wall
run into a brick wall
screen wall
sea wall
secondary cell wall
shear wall
shield wall
side wall
sound wall
Spanish wall
stare at the wall
stone-wall
stonewall, stone wall
talk to a brick wall
text wall
the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest
the writing is on the wall
thoracic wall
throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick
throw one’s hat over the wall
throw spaghetti against the wall
throw spaghetti at the wall
throw things at the wall and see what sticks
tieback wall
toe wall
Trombe wall
tsunami wall
up against the wall
up the wall
up the walls
wag-at-the-wall
wag-on-the-wall
wall barley
wall bars
wall brown
wall chart
wall chaser
wall clock
wall cloud
wall covering
wall crawler
wall energy
wall fan
wall flower
wall game
wall hanger
wall hanging
wall humping
wall jump
wall kick
wall lizard
wall newspaper
wall of death
wall of shame
wall of silence
wall of sound
wall of text
wall plate
wall plug
wall railing
wall ride
wall rocket
wall screw-moss
wall sit
wall socket
wall spring
wall time
wall tower
wall unit
wall walk
wall wart
wall-crawler
wall-eyed
wall-flower
wall-painting
wall-pecker
wall-rocket
wall-shade
wall-sided
wall-to-wall
wallflower
wallpaper
walls have ears
Wallsend
warped wall
writing on the wall

Translations[edit]

defensive rampart

Afrikaans: muur (af)
Albanian: mur (sq) m, ledh (sq) m
Amharic: ግድግዳ (gədgəda)
Arabic: حَائِط‎ (ar) m (ḥāʔiṭ), جِدَار‎ m (jidār), سُور‎ m (sūr)

Egyptian Arabic: سور‎ m (sūr)

Libyan Arabic: حيط‎ m (ḥēṭ)

Moroccan Arabic: حيط‎ m (ḥayṭ, ḥīṭ)
Armenian: պատ (hy) (pat)
Aromanian: mur
Assamese: বেৰ (ber), দেৱাল (dewal)
Asturian: muralla (ast) f
Azerbaijani: barı
Basque: harresi, hesi
Belarusian: сцяна́ f (scjaná), мур m (mur), вал (be) m (val)
Bengali: দেওয়াল (deōẇal)
Brahui: dívál
Breton: mur (br) f
Bulgarian: стена́ (bg) f (stená), зид (bg) m (zid), дува́р (bg) m (duvár)
Burmese: မြို့ (my) (mrui.)
Catalan: mur (ca) m
Chechen: пен (pen)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 牆／墙 (yue) (coeng⁴)

Dungan: чён (či͡on)

Mandarin: 牆壁／墙壁 (zh) (qiángbì), 牆／墙 (zh) (qiáng), 隔牆／隔墙 (zh) (géqiáng)
Crimean Tatar: qalav
Czech: hradba (cs) f, stěna (cs) f, zeď (cs) f
Dalmatian: mor m
Danish: væg (da) c
Dongxiang: dan
Dutch: muur (nl)
Egyptian: (jmḏr)
Estonian: müür (et)
Fala: muru m
Finnish: muuri (fi), valli (fi)
French: mur (fr)
Friulian: mûr
Galician: muro m
Georgian: კედელი (ka) (ḳedeli)
German: Wall (de) m
Gothic: *𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌳𐌾𐌿𐍃 f (*waddjus)
Greek: τείχος (el) n (teíchos)

Ancient: τεῖχος n (teîkhos)
Haitian Creole: mi
Hebrew: קִיר‎ (he) m (kir)
Higaonon: dingding
Hindi: दीवार (hi) f (dīvār), बाधा (hi) f (bādhā), रुकावट f (rukāvaṭ), भीत (hi) f (bhīt)
Hungarian: fal (hu)
Icelandic: veggur (is) m
Indonesian: tembok (id)
Ingush: пен (pen)
Irish: balla (ga) m, múr m
Italian: vallo (it) m, steccato (it) m, fortificazione (it) f
Japanese: 壁 (ja) (かべ, kabe), 城壁 (ja) (じょうへき, jōheki)
Kazakh: қабырға (kk) (qabyrğa), дуал (dual)
Khmer: កំពែង (km) (kɑmpɛɛng)
Korean: 벽(壁) (ko) (byeok), 성벽(城壁) (seongbyeok)
Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: دیوار‎ (ckb) (dîwar)

Northern Kurdish: dîwar (ku) m
Kyrgyz: дубал (ky) (dubal), кереге (kerege), там (ky) (tam)
Lao: ກຳແພງ (lo) (kam phǣng)
Latin: vallum, mūrus (la) m
Latvian: mūris m, valnis m
Luxembourgish: Wall m, Mauer (lb) f
Macedonian: ѕид m (dzid)
Malay: tembok (ms), benteng (ms)
Marathi: भिंत (bhinta)
Mauritian Creole: miray
Mongolian:

Cyrillic: туурга (mn) (tuurga), хана (mn) (xana)
Norwegian: voll (no) m

Bokmål: vegg (no) m
Occitan: mur (oc) m
Ojibwe: aasamisag
Old English: weall m
Pashto: دېوال‎ (ps) m (dewãl), باره‎ (ps) f (bārá)
Persian: بارو‎ (fa) (bârô), دیوار‎ (fa) (divâr)
Piedmontese: mur m
Polish: wał (pl) m inan, mur (pl) m inan
Portuguese: muro (pt) m, muralha (pt) f
Quechua: pirqa
Romanian: perete (ro) m
Romansch: mir m, meir m, mür m
Russian: стена́ (ru) f (stená), вал (ru) m (val)
Sanskrit: बाधा (sa) f (bādhā), भित्ति (sa) (bhitti)
Sardinian: muru
Scots: wa
Scottish Gaelic: gàrradh m, mùr m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: зи̑д m

Roman: zȋd (sh) m
Seychellois Creole: miray
Sindhi: ڀت‎ (sd)
Slovak: hradba (sk) f, stena f, múr (sk) m
Slovene: stena (sl) f
Somali: derbi (so)
Spanish: muro (es) m, muralla (es) f, pared (es) f
Swahili: ukuta (sw) class u
Swedish: vall (sv) c
Tagalog: pader
Tajik: девор (tg) (devor)
Tamil: சுவர் (ta) (cuvar)
Tatar: дивар (diwar)
Thai: กำแพง (th) (gam-pɛɛng)
Tibetan: རྩིག་པ (rtsig pa)
Turkish: sur (tr)
Turkmen: diwar
Ukrainian: стіна́ (uk) f (stiná), мур m (mur), вал (uk) m (val)
Urdu: دیوار‎ f (dīvār), بادھا‎ f (bādhā), رکاوٹ‎ f (rukāvaṭ)
Uyghur: تام‎ (tam)
Uzbek: devor (uz)
Vietnamese: tường (vi)
Welsh: caer (cy) m
West Frisian: ferdigeningswâl, fêstingswâl, stêdsmuorre
Yiddish: מויער‎ m or f (moyer), וואַנט‎ f (vant)
Zazaki: diwar (diq), dês (diq), bende

structure built for defense surrounding an area

Afrikaans: muur (af)
Albanian: mur (sq) m
Arabic: سُور‎ m (sūr)

Egyptian Arabic: سور‎ m (sūr)

Hijazi Arabic: سور‎ m (sūr)

Moroccan Arabic: سور‎ m (sūr)
Armenian: պարիսպ (hy) (parisp)
Azerbaijani: divar (az)
Baluchi: دیوال‎ (díwál)
Bashkir: стена (stena), диуар (diwar)
Belarusian: сцяна́ f (scjaná), мур m (mur), вал (be) m (val)
Breton: moger (br) f
Bulgarian: стена́ (bg) f (stená), зид (bg) m (zid), дува́р (bg) m (duvár)
Burmese: တံတိုင်း (my) (tamtuing:)
Catalan: mur (ca) m, muralla (ca) f
Chinese:

Dungan: чён (či͡on)

Mandarin: 牆壁／墙壁 (zh) (qiángbì), 牆／墙 (zh) (qiáng)
Crimean Tatar: qalav
Czech: zeď (cs) f, stěna (cs) f, múr (cs) m, val (cs) m
Danish: mur (da) c
Dutch: muur (nl)
Egyptian: (jmḏr)
Eshtehardi: دیفال‎ (difâl)
Estonian: sein (et), müür (et)
Evenki: олдон (oldon)
Finnish: muuri (fi)
French: murs (fr) m pl, remparts (fr) m pl
Galician: muralla f
Georgian: კედელი (ka) (ḳedeli)
German: Mauer (de) f, Wall (de) m

Alemannic German: Muur f
Gothic: *𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌳𐌾𐌿𐍃 f (*waddjus)
Greek: τείχος (el) n (teíchos)

Ancient: τεῖχος (teîkhos), τείχισμα (teíkhisma)
Hebrew: חוֹמָה‎ (he) f (khomá)
Hindi: दीवार (hi) f (dīvār), बाधा (hi) f (bādhā), प्राकार (hi) m (prākār), भीत (hi) f (bhīt)
Hungarian: fal (hu)
Icelandic: múr m
Indonesian: tembok (id)
Irish: balla (ga) m, múr m
Italian: muro (it) m, fortificazione (it) f
Japanese: 壁 (ja) (かべ, kabe)
Kazakh: қабырға (kk) (qabyrğa), дуал (dual)
Korean: 벽(壁) (ko) (byeok)
Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: دیوار‎ (ckb) (dîwar), شوورە‎ (ckb) (şûre)

Northern Kurdish: dîwar (ku) m, sûr (ku)
Kyrgyz: дубал (ky) (dubal), там (ky) (tam)
Lao: ກຳແພງ (lo) (kam phǣng), ຝາ (lo) (fā)
Latin: mūrus (la) m
Latvian: siena f
Lithuanian: siena (lt) f
Luhya: lisisi
Luxembourgish: Mauer (lb) f
Macedonian: ѕид m (dzid)
Malay: tembok (ms), benteng (ms)
Malayalam: മതിൽ (ml) (matil)
Manchu: ᡶᡠ (fu), ᡶᠠᠵᡳᡵᠠᠨ (fajiran)
Marathi: भिंत (bhinta)
Mongolian:

Cyrillic: хана (mn) (xana)
Nanai: падиран
Norwegian:

Bokmål: mur (no) m

Nynorsk: mur m
Ojibwe: aasamisag
Old English: weall m
Persian: دیوار‎ (fa) (divâr), والاد‎ (fa) (vâlâd)
Polish: mur (pl) m inan, wał (pl) m
Portuguese: muralha (pt) f, muro (pt) m, valo (pt) m, baluarte (pt) m
Quechua: qincha
Romanian: zid (ro)
Romansch: mir m, meir m, mür m
Russian: стена́ (ru) f (stená), вал (ru) m (val)
Sanskrit: बाधा (sa) f (bādhā), भित्ति (sa) (bhitti)
Sardinian: muru m
Scots: wa
Scottish Gaelic: gàrradh m, mùr m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: зидине m

Roman: zidine (sh) m
Sicilian: muru (scn) m
Slovak: stena f, múr (sk) m, val m
Slovene: zid (sl) m
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: murja f
Spanish: muro (es) m, muralla (es) f
Swahili: ukuta (sw), kiambaza (sw), ua (sw)
Swedish: mur (sv) c
Tagalog: padér
Tajik: девор (tg) (devor)
Tatar: стена (stena), дивар (diwar)
Telugu: ప్రాకారము (te) (prākāramu)
Thai: กำแพง (th) (gam-pɛɛng)
Turkish: duvar (tr), sur (tr)
Turkmen: diwar
Ukrainian: стіна́ (uk) f (stiná), мур m (mur), вал (uk) m (val)
Urdu: دیوار‎ f (dīvār), بادھا‎ (bādhā)
Uzbek: devor (uz)
Venetian: muro (vec) m, mur
Welsh: mur (cy) m
West Frisian: muorre (fy), wâl
Yagnobi: девал (deval)
Zhuang: bangxciengz, ciengz

substantial structure acting as side or division in a building

Abkhaz: аҭʒамц (atʒamc), агәар (agʷar)
Afrikaans: wand (af)
Aklanon: dingding
Albanian: mur (sq) m
Arabic: جِدَار‎ m (jidār)

Egyptian Arabic: حيط‎ m (ḥēṭ)

Gulf Arabic: طوفة‎ f (ṭōfa)

Hijazi Arabic: جُدار‎ m (judār)

Moroccan Arabic: حيط‎ m (ḥayṭ, ḥīṭ)
Armenian: պատ (hy) (pat)
Aromanian: mur m, greb n, stizmã f
Asturian: parea f, paré f, parede f
Belarusian: сцяна́ f (scjaná)
Bengali: দেওয়াল (deōẇal)
Berawan: dicing (Central)
Breton: moger (br) f
Bulgarian: стена́ (bg) f (stená), зид (bg) m (zid), дува́р (bg) m (duvár)
Catalan: paret (ca) f, envà (ca) m
Central Melanau: didieng
Chinese:

Dungan: чён (či͡on)

Mandarin: 牆壁／墙壁 (zh) (qiángbì)
Czech: zeď (cs) f, stěna (cs) f
Danish: væg (da) c
Dupaningan Agta: padding
Dutch: muur (nl) m, wand (nl) m
Egyptian: (jnb m)
Embaloh: siring
Eshtehardi: دیفال‎ (difâl)
Esperanto: vando
Estonian: sein (et)
Faroese: veggur m
Finnish: seinä (fi)
French: mur (fr) m, paroi (fr) f
Friulian: parêt f
Galician: parede (gl) f, penal m
Georgian: კედელი (ka) (ḳedeli)
German: Wand (de) f, Mauer (de) f
Greek: τοίχος (el) m (toíchos)

Ancient: τοῖχος (toîkhos), τειχίον (teikhíon), ὑποδομή (hupodomḗ)
Greenlandic: iigaq
Hebrew: קיר‎ (he) m (kir)
Hindi: दीवार (hi) f (dīvār), भीत (hi) f (bhīt)
Hungarian: fal (hu)
Iban: dinding
Icelandic: veggur (is) m
Indonesian: dinding (id)
Irish: balla (ga) m
Italian: muro (it) m, parete (it) f
Japanese: 壁 (ja) (かべ, kabe)
Kabuverdianu: paredi
Kazakh: қабырға (kk) (qabyrğa)
Khmer: ជញ្ជាំង (km) (cŭəñcĕəng)
Kimaragang: tobon
Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: دیوار‎ (ckb) m (dîwar)

Northern Kurdish: dîwar (ku) m
Kyrgyz: дубал (ky) (dubal), стена (stena), кереге (kerege)
Lao: ຝາກັ້ນ (fā kan), ຝາ (lo) (fā)
Latgalian: sīna
Latin: pariēs (la) m
Latvian: siena f
Lezgi: цал (cal)
Lithuanian: siena (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Wand f, Mauer (lb) f
Macedonian: ѕид m (dzid)
Malay: dinding (ms)
Malayalam: മതിൽ (ml) (matil)
Marathi: भिंत f (bhinta)
Mongolian:

Cyrillic: хана (mn) (xana)
Nahuatl: tenamitl (nah), tenantli
Nepali: भित्ता (bhittā)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: vegg (no) m

Nynorsk: vegg m
Occitan: pared
Ojibwe: aasamisag
Old English: weall m
Persian: دیوار‎ (fa) (divâr)
Plautdietsch: Schetzel n, Scheedunk f
Polish: ściana (pl) f
Portuguese: parede (pt) f
Romanian: perete (ro) m
Romansch: (external) mir m, meir m, mür m, (internal) paraid f, preit f, pare f
Russian: стена́ (ru) f (stená)
Sardinian: parada
Scots: wa
Scottish Gaelic: balla m
Sebop: de
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: зи̑д m

Roman: zȋd (sh) m
Slovak: stena f
Slovene: zid (sl) m, stena (sl) f
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: sćěna f
Spanish: pared (es) f, tabique (es) m, muralla (es) f
Swahili: kuta (sw)
Swedish: vägg (sv) c
Tabasaran: цал (cal)
Tagalog: dinding
Tashelhit: ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ m (agadir), ⴰⵖⵔⴰⴱ m (aɣrab)
Tatar: дивар (diwar)
Tausug: dinding
Tetum: didin
Thai: ผนัง (th) (pà-nǎng), ฝา (th) (fǎa)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: duvar (tr)
Turkmen: diwar
Udi: бару (baru)
Udmurt: борд (bord)
Ukrainian: стіна́ (uk) f (stiná)
Uyghur: تام‎ (tam)
Uzbek: devor (uz)
Vietnamese: tường (vi)
Walloon: meur (wa) m
Welsh: gwal f, mur (cy) m
West Frisian: muorre (fy) c, wâl
White Hmong: phab ntsa
Yakut: истиэнэ (istiene)
Yiddish: וואַנט‎ f (vant), מויער‎ m or f (moyer)
Zhuang: bangxciengz, ciengz

point of defeat or extinction

Finnish: seinä (fi)

impediment to free movement

Bulgarian: преграда (bg) f (pregrada)
Catalan: barrera (ca) f
Czech: bariéra (cs) f
Finnish: muuri (fi)
Galician: barreira (gl) f, muro m
German: Barriere (de) f, Hemnis n
Hindi: घेराव (hi) m (gherāv)
Italian: barriera (it) f
Norwegian: forhindring (no) m
Persian: مانع‎ (fa) (mâne’)
Portuguese: barreira (pt) f
Russian: прегра́да (ru) f (pregráda), барье́р (ru) m (barʹjér), стена́ (ru) f (stená), препя́тствие (ru) n (prepjátstvije)
Spanish: barrera (es) f
Swahili: kuta (sw)
Telugu: అడ్డు (te) (aḍḍu)
Welsh: ffîn f

butterfly Lasiommata megera

Bulgarian: ивичеста парарге f (ivičesta pararge)
Danish: vejrandøje c
Finnish: ruostepapurikko
German: Mauerfuchs m
Irish: donnóg an bhalla f
Polish: osadnik megera m anim
Russian: бурогла́зка меге́ра f (buroglázka megéra), краегла́зка меге́ра f (krajeglázka megéra)
Swahili: kuta (sw)

something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall

anatomy, zoology, botany: divisive or containing structure

Armenian: պատ (hy) (pat)
Basque: horma
Catalan: paret (ca) f
Czech: stěna (cs) f
Danish: væg (da) c
Finnish: seinämä, seinä (fi)
French: paroi (fr) m
Galician: parede (gl) f
German: Wand (de) f
Greek: τοίχωμα (el) n (toíchoma)
Hindi: कोशिका (hi) f (kośikā)
Hungarian: sejtfal (hu)
Indonesian: dinding (id)
Irish: balla (ga) m
Italian: parete (it) f, muraglia (it) f
Japanese: 壁 (ja) (かべ, kabe)
Latvian: siena f
Malay: dinding (ms)
Marathi: कोशिकावरण (kośikāvraṇ)
Norwegian: skillevegg m
Polish: ściana (pl) f, przegroda (pl) f
Portuguese: parede (pt) f
Russian: сте́нка (ru) f (sténka), перегоро́дка (ru) f (peregoródka)
Scots: wa
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: зи̑д m

Roman: zȋd (sh) m
Spanish: pared (es) f
Swahili: kuta (sw)
Swedish: vägg (sv)
Thai: ผนัง (th) (pà-nǎng)
Welsh: mur (cy) m

Translations to be checked

Breton: ^{(please verify)} moger (br) f, ^{(please verify)} mur (br) f
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} muur (nl)
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} vando
Ido: ^{(please verify)} muro (io)
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} siena (lt)
Marathi: ^{(please verify)} भिंत (bhinta)
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} perete (ro) m
Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} muru m
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} గోడ (te) (gōḍa)

Verb[edit]

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.

He walled the study with books.

Derived terms[edit]

wall in
wall off
wall up

Translations[edit]

to enclose by surrounding with walls

Bulgarian: ограждам (bg) (ograždam)
Catalan: emmurallar (ca), murar (ca)
Czech: zazdít (cs) pf
Finnish: muurata (fi), ympäröidä muurilla, muurittaa
French: emmurer (fr)
German: einmauern (de), vermauern (de), zumauern (de)
Greek:

Ancient: τειχίζω (teikhízō)
Hungarian: falaz (hu), befalaz (hu)
Icelandic: múra
Irish: balla (ga), múr, claí (ga)
Italian: murare (it)
Japanese: 壁を巡らせる (kabe o meguraseru)
Luxembourgish: amaueren, zoumaueren
Persian: دور … دیوار کشیدن‎ (dor-e … divâr kešidan)
Portuguese: murar (pt), amurar (pt), amuralhar (pt)
Scots: wa
Spanish: amurallar (es), murar (es)
Swahili: kuta (sw)
Swedish: mura (sv)
Welsh: murio

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English wallen, from Old English weallan (“to bubble, boil”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaną (“to fount, stream, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“wave”). Cognate with Middle Dutch wallen (“to boil, bubble”), Dutch wellen (“to weld”), German wellen (“to wave, warp”), Danish vælde (“to overwhelm”), Swedish välla (“to gush, weld”). See also well.

Verb[edit]

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

To boil.
To well, as water; spring.

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well
overwhelm

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English walle, from Old English *wealla, *weall (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wallô, *wallaz (“well, spring”). See above. Cognate with Old Frisian walla (“spring”), Old English wiell (“well”).

Noun[edit]

wall (plural walls)

(chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.

Etymology 4[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

wall (plural walls)

(nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.

Verb[edit]

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

(transitive, nautical) To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).

Etymology 5[edit]

Interjection[edit]

wall

(US) Pronunciation spelling of well.
- 1858, The New Priest in Conception Bay by Robert Lowell [9]
  
  Wall, they spoke up, ‘n’ says to her, s’d they, «Why, look a-here, aunty, Wus’t his skin, ‘t was rock?» so s’s she, «I guess not.» (Well, they spoke up and says to her, said they, «Why look a-here, aunty, was it his skin that was rock [referring to the Apostle Peter]?» So says she, «I guess not.»)
- 1988, Herbert M. Sutherland, Tall Tales of the Devil’s Apron, The Overmountain Press, →ISBN, page 97:
  
  Wall, be that as it may, ol’ Hosshead was a purty good citizen in his day, an’ he shore did make Juneybell toe the mark.

Anagrams[edit]

lawl

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Rhymes: -al

Verb[edit]

wall

singular imperative of wallen
(colloquial) first-person singular present of wallen

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

wall

Alternative form of wale (“selection, preference”)

Adjective[edit]

wall

Alternative form of wale

Scots[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /wɑl/, /wal/

Noun[edit]

wall (plural walls)

A well. (clarification of this definition is needed)

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