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wall
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /w?l/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /w?l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Etymology 1
From Middle English wall, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz, *wall? (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English w?g, w?h (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw. Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.
Noun
wall (plural walls)
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- An impediment to free movement.
- A type of butterfly (Lasiommata megera).
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- A barrier to vision.
- Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- (auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- Synonym: chandelier
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- Antonym: sieve
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
Synonyms
- (rampart): rampart
- (fictional bidder at an auction): chandelier
- (personal notice board): profile
Meronyms
- (rampart): terreplein (level walkway); parapet, crenellation (minor secondary wall protecting the terreplein); banquette (area elevated above the terreplein for use by defenders)
Translations
Verb
wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)
- To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
- He walled the study with books.
Derived terms
- wall in
- wall off
- wall up
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English wallen, from Old English weallan (“to bubble, boil”), from Proto-Germanic *wall?n?, *well?n? (“to fount, stream, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel?n-, *wel?m- (“wave”). Cognate with Middle Dutch wallen (“to boil, bubble”), Dutch wellen (“to weld”), German wellen (“to wave, warp”), Danish vælde (“to overwhelm”), Swedish välla (“to gush, weld”). See also well.
Verb
wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)
- To boil.
- To well, as water; spring.
Related terms
- well
- overwhelm
Etymology 3
From Middle English walle, from Old English *wealla, *weall (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wallô, *wallaz (“well, spring”). See above. Cognate with Old Frisian walla (“spring”), Old English wiell (“well”).
Noun
wall (plural walls)
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
Etymology 4
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
wall (plural walls)
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
Verb
wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)
- (transitive, nautical) To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
Etymology 5
Interjection
wall
- (US) Pronunciation spelling of well.
- 1858, The New Priest in Conception Bay by Robert Lowell [2]
- Wall, they spoke up, 'n' says to her, s'd they, "Why, look a-here, aunty, Wus't his skin, 't was rock?" so s's she, "I guess not." (Well, they spoke up and says to her, said they, "Why look a-here, aunty, was it his skin that was rock [referring to the Apostle Peter]?" So says she, "I guess not.")
- 1988, Herbert M. Sutherland, Tall Tales of the Devil's Apron, The Overmountain Press ?ISBN, page 97
- Wall, be that as it may, ol' Hosshead was a purty good citizen in his day, an' he shore did make Juneybell toe the mark.
- 1858, The New Priest in Conception Bay by Robert Lowell [2]
Anagrams
- lawl
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -al
Verb
wall
- singular imperative of wallen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of wallen
Middle English
Noun
wall
- Alternative form of wale (“selection, preference”)
Adjective
wall
- Alternative form of wale
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w?l/, /wal/
Noun
wall (plural walls)
- A well. (clarification of this definition is needed)
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asylum
English
Etymology
From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??sa?l?m/
Noun
asylum (plural asylums or asyla)
- A place of safety.
- The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
- (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
Synonyms
- sanctuary
- shelter
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- refugee
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a?sy?.lum/, [ä?s?y??????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a?si.lum/, [??s?i?lum]
Noun
as?lum n (genitive as?l?); second declension
- asylum (place of refuge), sanctuary
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- asylum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- asylum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- asylum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- asylum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- asylum in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- asylum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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