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Noun wall has 8 senses

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"
--₁ is a kind of partition, divider
--₁ is a part of building, edifice; room; hallway, hall
--₁ has parts:
arch, archway; capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher; course, row; doorway, door, room access, threshold; header, coping, cope; paneling, panelling, pane; pier; wainscot, dado; wall panel
--₁ has particulars:
attic; bearing wall; cavity wall; chimney breast; firewall; gable, gable end, gable wall; parapet; proscenium, proscenium wall; sidewall; wainscoting, wainscotting; Wailing Wall; Hadrian's Wall

Derived form: verb wall₁
rampart, bulwark, 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"
--₂ is a kind of embankment
--₂ is a part of fortification, munition
--₂ has particulars:
Antonine Wall; bailey; battlement, crenelation, crenellation; Chinese Wall, Great Wall, Great Wall of China; earthwork; fraise; merlon

Derived form: verb wall₁
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"
--₃ is a kind of object, physical object
--₃ has particulars: footwall; hanging wall
wall - a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden); "the wall followed the road"; "he ducked behind the garden wall and waited"
--₄ is a kind of fence, fencing
--₄ has particulars: party wall; retaining wall
Derived form: verb wall₁
wall, paries - (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure; "stomach walls"
--₅ is a kind of stratum
--₅ has particulars: abdominal wall
wall - a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
--₆ is a kind of geological formation, formation
--₆ is a part of cave
wall - a layer of material that encloses space; "the walls of the cylinder were perforated"; "the container's walls were blue"
--₇ is a kind of layer, bed
wall - a difficult or awkward situation; "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall"
--₈ is a kind of difficulty

Verb wall has 1 sense

wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround - surround with a wall in order to fortify
--₁ is one way to protect

Derived forms: noun wall₄, noun wall₂, noun wall₁
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