wall

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /wɔːl/|/woːl/    美 /woːl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spring of water. dialectal
  2. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
  3. A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
  4. A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
    — The town wall was surrounded by a moat.
  5. 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.
  6. A point of desperation.
  7. A point of defeat or extinction.
    — 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.
  8. An impediment to free movement.
    — A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.
  9. The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
    — 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.
  10. A barrier. in-compounds,often
    — a seawall; a firewall
  11. Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
    — a wall of sound; a wall of water; a wall of smoke obscured their view of enemy forces
  12. A means of defence or security. figuratively
    — I built a wall between myself and the bullies.
  13. One of the vertical sides of a container.
    — The extraordinary thinness of the walls of these vases, which reminds us of the finest china, or even of Venetian glass
  14. A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
    — There is definitely some sort of lump on the back wall of my throat (right side).
  15. A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
  16. A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible. US,slang
  17. A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
    — 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.
  18. Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
    — 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.
  19. Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
  20. A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user. Internet
  21. A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
  22. Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
  23. The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly. definite,slang
    — Depreciation of assets happens. Prepare yourself Marla. Get ready for the wall.
  24. The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given. historical
    — He related to me the following minute anecdote of this period: 'In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. […] Now it is fixed that every man keeps to the right; or, if one is taking the wall, another yields it; and it is never a dispute.'
  25. A very steep slope.
动词 v.
  1. To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls. transitive
    — He walled the study with books.
  2. To boil.
  3. To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope). transitive
  4. To use a wallhack. slang
  5. To well, as water; spring.
  6. To wallbang. slang,transitive
    — I walled her. She's low [health].
感叹词 intj.
  1. Pronunciation spelling of well. US,alt-of,pronunciation-spelling
    — 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.")

词形变化

walls plural walls present,singular,third-person walling participle,present walled participle,past walled past walls present,singular,third-person walling participle,present walled participle,past walled past walls plural walls plural walls present,singular,third-person walling participle,present walled participle,past walled past

词汇关系

衍生词
abdominal wall accent wall adiabatic wall airwall anterior wall Apartheid Wall back against the wall backs to the wall back to the wall back wall balls-to-the-wall balls to the wall bang one's head against a brick wall basal wall beat one's head against a stone wall Berlin Wall big wall Bloch wall block wall blue wall blue wall of silence body wall 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 climbing wall climb the walls cobwall cookie wall cosmic wall crosswall curtain wall curtainwall dead wall diaphragm wall domain wall DonoWall drive someone to the wall drive someone up the wall drone wall dry stone wall drywall dry wall dwarf wall eastern pellitory-of-the-wall enwall ethical wall eyewall fall of the wall feature wall fifth wall firewall floodwall flower wall fly on the wall footwall force someone's back to the wall forewall forwall fourth wall fourth-wall fourth-wall joke fourth wall joke four-wall front wall fruit wall galaxy wall get the wall glory wall go to the wall great wall Great Wall of China green wall groundwall Hadrian's Wall handwriting on the wall hanging wall hardwall harsh noise wall Hassans Walls headwall head wall Heddon-on-the-Wall highwall hit a brick wall hit a wall hit the wall hole-in-the-wall hot wall house-wall house wall interwall inwall jersey wall knee wall know someone from a hole in the wall ladder wall ledger wall like speaking to a brick wall like speaking to a wall like talking to a brick wall like talking to a wall living wall login wall longwall maternal wall midwall mudwall multiwall nail Jell-O to a wall nail someone to the wall nanowall Néel wall office-wall office wall off-the-wall off the wall outwall paper wall paperwall party wall passwall paywall peace wall pellitory of the wall pellitory-of-the-wall pick bids off the wall piss money up the wall piss something up the wall pitwall pony wall potwaller power wall primary cell wall prison wall pushwall rat wall red wall registration wall retaining wall rewall Rockwall rope wall run into a brick wall screen wall sea wall seawall secondary cell wall service wall shear wall shearwall shield wall shortwall side wall sidewall sixth wall softwall sound wall Spanish wall spite wall stakewall stare at the wall Stonewall stone-wall stone wall storage wall storagewall streetwall talk to a brick wall text wall the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest the handwriting is on the wall 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 town wall training wall tribute wall Trombe wall tsunami wall unwall up against the wall up the wall up the walls wag-at-the-wall wag-on-the-wall wall angel wallball wall barley wall bars wallbird wall board wallboard wallbox wall brown wall cake wall charger wall chart wallchart wall chaser wall clock wall cloud wallcovering wall covering wallcrawl wall crawler wall-crawler wallcrawler wallcrawling wallcreeper wallcrossing wall energy waller wallette wall-eyed wall fan wallfish wall-flower wall flower wallflower wallful wall game wall gecko wall germander wall gun wallhack wallhacker wallhacking wall hanger wallhanging wall hanging wall humping wall jump wall kick wall-kisser wall kisser wallless wall-less walllike wall lizard wall moss wall-mounted wall newspaper wall of death wall of galaxies wall of shame wall of silence wall of sound wall of text wall-painting wall paper wallpaper wall-pecker wall pellitory wallpepper wall piece wall plate wall plug wallpress wall railing wall ride wall-rocket wall rocket wallscape wallscreen wall screw-moss Wallsend wall-shade walls have ears wallside wall-sided wall sit wall slam wall slap wall socket Walls of Jerusalem wall spring wallstead Wall Street wall table wall time walltop wall-to-wall wall tower wall unit wallure wall walk wallward wallwards wall wart warped wall waterwall whitewall wing wall writing on the wall
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词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English wallen, from Old English weallan (“to bubble, boil”), from Proto-West Germanic *wallan, 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.
词源 3
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”).
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