wall

Definitions


[wɔːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land
(e.g: a garden wall)

- a thing regarded as a protective or restrictive barrier
(e.g: police investigating the murders met a wall of silence from witnesses)

- the membranous outer layer or lining of an organ or cavity
(e.g: the wall of the stomach)

- the rock enclosing a lode or seam



Phrases:
- drive someone up the wall
- go to the wall
- go up the wall
- hit the wall
- off the wall
- wall-to-wall
- walls have ears

Origin:
Old English wall, from Latin vallum ‘rampart’, from vallus ‘stake’


[wɔːl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- enclose (an area) within walls, especially for protection or privacy
(e.g: parts of the city's East End had been walled off with concrete barricades)


Phrases:
- drive someone up the wall
- go to the wall
- go up the wall
- hit the wall
- off the wall
- wall-to-wall
- walls have ears

Origin:
Old English wall, from Latin vallum ‘rampart’, from vallus ‘stake’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries