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📖 Определения и значения для слова wall

📒 a long, solid structure that rises straight up from the ground, made of stone, brick or concrete, that surrounds, divides or protects an area of land

  • to build a wall
  • a brick/concrete wall
  • The fields were divided by stone walls.

📒 any of the sides of a building or room

  • She leaned against the wall.
  • on the wall Colourful abstract paintings hung on the walls.
  • He drilled a hole in the wall.

📒 something that forms a barrier or stops you from making progress

  • The boat struck a solid wall of water.
  • The investigators were confronted by a wall of silence.
  • a solid wall of fog

📒 the outer layer of something hollow such as an organ of the body or a cell of an animal or a plant

  • the abdominal wall
  • the wall of an artery
  • Heating food breaks down plant cell walls so they can release more of their nutrients.

📒 a space on a social media website where you can share messages, photos, etc. with other users

  • She posted a pink baby romper on her Facebook wall, announcing they were expecting a girl.

📒 to keep trying to do something that will never be successful

  • Trying to reason with them was like banging my head against a brick wall.

📒 to be so full of energy or so excited that you cannot keep still

  • The kids have been bouncing off the walls all day.

📒 to be unable to make any progress because there is a difficulty that stops you

📒 a person who watches others without being noticed

  • I'd love to be a fly on the wall when he tells her the news.
  • fly-on-the-wall documentaries (= in which people are filmed going about their normal lives as if the camera were not there)

📒 to fail because of lack of money

  • Many firms have gone to the wall in this recession.

📒 used when you are describing a situation in which there are signs that something is going to have problems or that it is going to be a failure

  • It is amazing that not one of them saw the handwriting on the wall.

📒 to be in a difficult situation in which you are forced to do something but are unable to make the choices that you would like

  • We had our backs to the wall with no choice but to sell.

📒 to reach a point when you cannot continue or make any more progress

  • We hit a wall and we weren't scoring.
  • I’ve hit a wall with my marathon training.
  • What do you do when you hit the wall at work?

📒 unusual or slightly crazy

  • Some of his ideas are really off the wall.
  • off-the-wall ideas

📒 used when you are talking about keeping something secret

  • Don't let this go further than these four walls (= Don't tell anyone else who is not in the room now).

📒 crazy or angry

  • That noise is driving me up the wall.
  • I mustn't be late or Dad will go up the wall.

📒 used to warn people to be careful what they say because other people may be listening

📒 used when you are describing a situation in which there are signs that something is going to have problems or that it is going to be a failure

  • It is amazing that not one of them saw the writing on the wall.
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