1A continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land.

花园围墙。

有干砌墙横穿的农田。

1. 1.1 A side of a building or room, typically forming part of the building's structure.
   墙，墙壁
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Make sure you can work the wood through the hole in the wall and that it can be pulled up against the back side of the wall by the string.
   • Liza stepped back from the lanky man leaning over her, banging into the brick wall of the building.
   • What should the flashing do at the wing wall when it approaches from the masonry walls on either side of the corner?
   • You can even paint the trim of one room the same color as the walls of the next room, and vice-versa.
   • Adobe masonry is heavy work, so limiting the square footage of the adobe walls is important to building on a budget.
   • The seminar room was a bare room with plaster falling off the walls in a half-derelict building.
   • Station Officer Peter Ashworth said the fire spread inside the building's walls and damaged the brickwork and roof.
   • What is learnt in the four walls of a classroom becomes totally irrelevant when the students get employed.
   • Birch branches leaning against a wall in the living room become sculpture, for example.
   • Mirrors were on the right side of the wall, making the room appear much larger than it really was.
   • Party walls are walls which either separate buildings in different ownership or which are part of a building and which stand on lands in different ownership.
   • The sloped ceiling left little standing room, and the walls were hot pink!
   • As a color for the walls of a room, we urge you to exercise caution with turquoise.
   • Being confronted with room after room of plasterboard walls was ‘quite daunting’, admits Vivien.
   • Ayako didn't answer him back, but began to observe the surrounding buildings through the glass walls of the room.
   • Help them press their hands onto the walls to create a room boarder around the middle of the wall.
   • The room widens almost imperceptibly, then narrows again as the adobe walls converge on either side of the altar.
   • It is a handsome building with brick walls, grey slate slanting roof, and tall spire.
   • Meanwhile, the yellow walls brighten up the room so that the red doesn't seem too dark.
   • We removed the walls between the rooms, creating a single living and dining space.
2. 1.2 Any high vertical surface or facade, especially one that is imposing in scale.
   （尤指宏大的）峭立面
   the eastern wall of the valley

   峡谷东面的峭壁。

   figurative flash floods sent a 6-foot wall of water through the village

   Example sentencesExamples

   • And there is even much to learn about the city walls.
   • Sheer walls narrow towards the surface and almost meet, progressing vertically above the surface for another 30m or so.
   • Describing the feeling of what it is like to scale a craggy wall with ease, Kirsty likened the experience to a Zen state.
   • When I arrived there and got out of the car, I was met by a wall of noise.
   • Up close, the walls were like the surface of the moon, made vertical.
   • At the strategic location of Pointe du Hoc, American Rangers scaled the cliff walls on D-Day.
3. 1.3 A thing perceived as a protective or restrictive barrier.
   屏障，壁垒
   a wall of silence

   〈喻〉音壁。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Police believe a wall of silence is protecting a knifeman who stabbed a teenager in the face during a seven-a-side football match.
   • It all screams of a good place to go and watch inclement weather from within protective walls.
   • But to make a court case the police had to break down the walls of silence and tribal loyalty which have built up against them in Manningham over many years.
   • In America, barrier walls are built along highways to keep neighbors from being inconvenienced by the noise.
   • She stopped at the edge of the porch, and the Cartwrights formed a protective wall behind her.
   • Only one man Robert Morris, 49, has been charged because detectives hit a wall of silence.
   • It was like he had brought the street with him; they kept him company and provided a kind of protective wall.
   • The wall prevents detainees from meeting each other and is a barrier to easy access to the library.
   • Met by a wall of silence, one soldier battered Ali to the floor with his rifle and tried to beat the information out of him.
   • They had been lucky enough to follow their scent this far, but now they were unsure if the two had enter the protective walls of the town.
   • He carried on his celestial observations alone from a tower situated on the protective wall of the cathedral.
   • Bullet-proof glass and protective walls will hopefully put paid to any terrorist attacks.
   • Barbed wire can be incorporated into existing natural obstacles like hedges, fences and walls, and used to block access from the roof.
   • They had been friends for many years and in all that time, Reagan had never seen Terrance let down the protective walls around him.
   • Silence becomes a fortress wall of protection, shielding the pastor's position of power from scrutiny or challenge.
   • We eat lunch leaning on the high protective wall around Kincardine Church.
   • Without these protective walls, the going becomes significantly more delicate.
   • Detectives met a wall of silence despite being convinced that several local people knew who was responsible.
   • On three sides 12-metre high walls form a barrier between the two factions.
   • Their unwillingness to acknowledge the dangers of fundamentalist Islam is creating a wall of silence that needs to be overcome.

   Synonyms

   obstacle, barrier, barricade, fence
4. 1.4Soccer A line of defenders forming a barrier against a free kick taken near the penalty area.
   〔英足〕人墙
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Dean Ashton was brought down on the edge of the Plymouth penalty area and Lunt hit the free kick through the wall.
   • Shevchenko steps up and promptly blasts the free-kick into the wall.
   • Henry curled the free kick around the wall and into the top right-hand corner of Kiely's goal.
   • Nastja Ceh put Slovenia ahead in the 16th minute after curling a free-kick over a wall of defenders.
   • It was a clear foul - like when players ease a defender out the way in the wall at a free-kick.
5. 1.5
   short for climbing wall
6. 1.6Mining The rock enclosing a lode or seam or forming the side of a mine-working.
7. 1.7Anatomy Zoology The membranous outer layer or lining of an organ or cavity.
   〔剖，动〕壁
   the wall of the stomach

   胃壁。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The outer layer of the wall of the large intestine is weaker in some areas than in others.
   • There were several points of adhesion from the lung to the chest wall and to the mediastinal pleura.
   • This relaxes muscles in the walls of blood vessels and reduces blood pressure.
   • The musculature of the wall of the infundibulum is similar to that of the acetabulum.
   • The outer wall of the braincase becomes the alisphenoid and the dermal skull bones.
8. 1.8Biology
   see cell wall

1Enclose (an area) within walls, especially to protect it or lend it some privacy.

有墙与当地居民分隔开的住宅区。

1. 1.1wall something up Block or seal a place by building a wall around or across it.
   砌墙封闭；砌墙堵住
   one doorway has been walled up

   一个门口已经用墙堵住。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Originally, an alcove on the east side enlarged the living space of H2, but later access to this area was walled up with stones and sod, thus reducing the living space to a single room.
   • At the end of that time the slaves of one Adolius, to whom the inheritance of the mountain had descended, removed the stones with which the cavern had been walled up, and the seven sleepers were permitted to awake.
   • My room was far away from everybody else's, on the corner of an enclosed porch - it had once been open, but they walled it up.
   • I was once told that the mill was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, and windows were walled up for the window tax of 1696.

   Synonyms

   block, seal, close, brick up
2. 1.2wall someone/something in/up Confine or imprison someone or something in a restricted or sealed place.
   把…关起来；禁闭
   the gray tenements walled in the space completely

   那些灰色的房屋把那空地完全围起来了。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Crime has spiraled so out of control that the government has entirely given up on certain neighborhoods and walled them in, content to let lawlessness reign there as long as it is contained and cannot spill over to Paris proper.
   • They didn't touch me, but formed a solid formation that would be impossible to break, walling me in with the rail of the bridge at my back.
   • We put this in a corner, and walled a third side in with a small bench turned on its side.
   • It was an amazing thing to be outside and not see the grey stones of the castle walling him in on every side.
   • Undeterred, the couple walled it in and blended it with the kitchenette by placing the refrigerator and wet bar to either side.
   • Next to that, the stereo is walled in by records and tapes.
   • This plus the fact the sheep pen is walled in on four sides by a solid board fence three and a half feet high on two sides and 15 feet on the other.
   • If cable companies wall consumers up in a walled garden and just allow them to order a pizza, they won't get very far.
   • When you should have been dreaming of accession, and lopping off the heads of people you took a dislike to, mad uncle Richard was walling you up in the tower.
   • That would be destructive to the process, because that would start walling things in and out.
   • What is the grand purpose towards which he must suffer this indignity, this loss of sense after sense until he is walled in senselessly, no hope of escape?
   • The Communist Party has apparently found a way to secure its future - by walling its people in.

   Synonyms

   confine, enclose, impound, shut up, pen, pen in, pen up, fence in, hedge in

   confine, enclose, impound, pen, pen in, pen up, fence in, hedge in