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# wall

«wall» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of the sides of a room or building** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wall, walls); verb (wall in, wall off — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wall is one of the sides of a room or building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#m1)

2) A wall is also a fence of stone or brick around a garden, field or town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#m2)

3) A wall can be a thing that stops you, like «a wall of water» or «hit a wall» (to get stuck). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#m3)

4) The wall of a body part is its outer layer, like the stomach wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: area to paint or tile (length × height); length or height of a wall; things hung on each wall; a room with 4 walls. In everyday life: pictures and posters on the wall, a garden wall, a climbing wall. In history: city walls, the Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall. Phrases: «on the wall», «wall chart», «off the wall» (strange).

### examples

- The wall is 4 meters long and 3 meters high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#x1)
- She painted 2 walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#x2)
- Each wall has 5 pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#x3)
- A room has 4 walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#x4)
- We put our drawings on the classroom wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#x5)
- Hadrian's Wall was built by the Romans across northern England. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#x6)
- The cat jumped onto the garden wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#x7)
- Kids queued for the climbing wall at the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#x8)
- The monkeys leaped higher up the walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a wall», «walls». Things are «on» a wall (a picture on the wall), but «in» a wall (a hole in the wall). Maths: area of a wall = length × height; take away windows and doors. Pictures per wall is a rate. A room often hides the number 4. Safety: do not climb on high walls.

### In the corpora

- [Living close to other people means sharing streets, walls, parking spaces and rules.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/0/)
- [If the remote is lost, the power button on the TV itself, or on the wall, switches it off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/12/)
- [A mural is a big planned painting on a wall; without permission painting on walls is damage, even at home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/10/)
- [A mural is a big wall painting done with permission, often paid for by councils, building owners or festivals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/6/)
- [Some cities have legal walls, also called free walls, where graffiti is allowed, and the paintings change quickly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wall» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wall/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.