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  • wall — less, adj. wall like, adj. /wawl/, n. 1. any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection …   Universalium

  • embankment — ► NOUN 1) a wall or bank built to prevent flooding by a river. 2) a bank of earth or stone built to carry a road or railway over an area of low ground …   English terms dictionary

  • wall — [n] obstruction, divider bank, bar, barricade, barrier, block, blockade, bulwark, curb, dam, embankment, enclosure, facade, fence, fortification, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, levee, limitation, palisade, panel, paneling, parapet, partition,… …   New thesaurus

  • embankment — [[t]ɪmbæ̱ŋkmənt[/t]] embankments N COUNT: oft in names after n An embankment is a thick wall of earth that is built to carry a road or railway over an area of low ground, or to prevent water from a river or the sea from flooding the area. They… …   English dictionary

  • wall — /wɔl / (say wawl) noun 1. an upright work or structure of stone, brick, or similar material, serving for enclosure, division, support, protection, etc., as one of the upright enclosing sides of a building or a room, or a solid fence of masonry. 2 …  

  • wall — [[t]wɔl[/t]] n. 1) bui archit. any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or… …   From formal English to slang

  • embankment — UK [ɪmˈbæŋkmənt] / US noun [countable] Word forms embankment : singular embankment plural embankments a sloping wall of earth or stone beside a road, railway, or river …   English dictionary

  • wall — Synonyms and related words: arch dam, arm, armor, armor plate, backstop, balustrade, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barbed wire, barrage, barricade, barrier, battle, bear trap dam, beaver dam, block, blockade, bluff, boom, boundary, brattice,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • wall — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. side, partition, bulkhead, flange, splashboard; rampart, defense; barrier; fence; cliff, precipice; levee, dike, seawall; (pl.) prison. See enclosure, hindrance, vertical, circumscription. II (Roget s …   English dictionary for students

  • embankment — Synonyms and related words: L, abutment, anchorage, anchorage ground, anthill, arc boutant, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, basin, beach, beam, bear trap dam, beaver dam, berm, berth, boom, branch, breakwater,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • wall — [OE] Wall was borrowed into Old English from Latin vallum ‘rampart’. This originally denoted a ‘stockade made of stakes’, and it was derived from vallus ‘stake’. German wall, Dutch wal, and Swedish vall, also borrowings from Latin, preserve its… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

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