Thesaurus: wall

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1. n. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
2. n. 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., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
3. n. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
4. n. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
5. n. The side of a level or drift.
6. n. The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
7. v. t. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
8. v. t. To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
9. v. t. To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
10. n. an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
11. n. anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
12. n. (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure