All wall synonyms
wall
W w verb wall
- enclose β Surround or close off on all sides.
- fence β a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- hedge β a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
- pen β a female swan.
- seal off β an embossed emblem, figure, symbol, word, letter, etc., used as attestation or evidence of authenticity.
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
noun wall
- divider β a person or thing that divides.
- obstruction β something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- bar β A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
- barricade β A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
- barrier β A barrier is something such as a rule, law, or policy that makes it difficult or impossible for something to happen or be achieved.
- block β A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
- dam β A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake.
- embankment β A wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.
- facade β Architecture. the front of a building, especially an imposing or decorative one. any side of a building facing a public way or space and finished accordingly.
- screen β a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- side β one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- surface β the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- bank β A bank is a building where a bank offers its services.
- blockade β A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- bulwark β A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
- curb β If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- enclosure β An area that is sealed off with an artificial or natural barrier.
- fortification β the act of fortifying or strengthening.
- hindrance β an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hurdle β a portable barrier over which contestants must leap in certain running races, usually a wooden frame with a hinged inner frame that swings down under impact to prevent injury to a runner who does not clear it.
- impediment β obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
- levee β (in Great Britain) a public court assembly, held in the early afternoon, at which men only are received.
- limitation β a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- palisade β a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- panel β a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- panelling β wood or other material made into panels.
- paneling β a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- parapet β Fortification. a defensive wall or elevation, as of earth or stone, in a fortification. an elevation raised above the main wall or rampart of a permanent fortification.
- partition β a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- rampart β Fortification. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet.
- restriction β something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
- retainer β the act of retaining in one's service.
- roadblock β an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- stockade β Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.