Definition of Wall

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Definition of Wall

Wall

A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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.

A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.

An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.

The side of a level or drift.

The country rock bounding a vein laterally.

To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.

To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.

To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

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Wall Quotations

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Warren Buffett

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Kahlil Gibran

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
John F. Kennedy

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
John F. Kennedy

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
Mitch Hedberg

Wall Translations

wall in Afrikaans is muur
wall in Dutch is muur, wand
wall in French is paroi, murale, cloison, mur
wall in German is Mauer, Wand
wall in Italian is parete, muro
wall in Norwegian is vegg
wall in Portuguese is parede, muro
wall in Spanish is pared, muro

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