| daintiness | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. daintiness, delicacy, fineness | the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance.; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features" |
| ~ elegance | a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste.; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility" |
| wall | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. wall | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure.; "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls were covered with pictures" |
| ~ archway, arch | a passageway under a curved masonry construction.; "they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory" |
| ~ attic | (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof. |
| ~ bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building. |
| ~ building, edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" |
| ~ coping stone, capstone, copestone, stretcher | a stone that forms the top of wall or building. |
| ~ cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them. |
| ~ chimney breast | walls that project out from the wall of a room and surround the chimney base. |
| ~ row, course | (construction) a layer of masonry.; "a course of bricks" |
| ~ doorway, room access, door, threshold | the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close.; "he stuck his head in the doorway" |
| ~ firewall | a fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle. |
| ~ gable, gable end, gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof. |
| ~ hall, hallway | an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.; "the elevators were at the end of the hall" |
| ~ cope, coping, header | brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall. |
| ~ paneling, panelling, pane | a panel or section of panels in a wall or door. |
| ~ parapet | a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony. |
| ~ partition, divider | a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another). |
| ~ pier | (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows). |
| ~ proscenium wall, proscenium | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater. |
| ~ room | an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling.; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" |
| ~ sidewall | a wall that forms the side of a structure. |
| ~ dado, wainscot | panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall. |
| ~ wainscoting, wainscotting | a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively). |
| ~ wall panel | paneling that forms part of a wall. |
| ~ wailing wall | a wall in Jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon. |
| ~ hadrian's wall | an ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the 2nd century; marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain. |
| n. (object) | 2. wall | anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect.; "a wall of water"; "a wall of smoke"; "a wall of prejudice"; "negotiations ran into a brick wall" |
| ~ object, physical object | a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow.; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" |
| ~ footwall | the lower wall of an inclined fault. |
| ~ hanging wall | the upper wall of an inclined fault. |
| n. (body) | 3. paries, wall | (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure.; "stomach walls" |
| ~ abdominal wall | a wall of the abdomen. |
| ~ anatomy, general anatomy | the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals. |
| ~ stratum | one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock). |
| n. (state) | 4. wall | a difficult or awkward situation.; "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall" |
| ~ difficulty | a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome.; "grappling with financial difficulties" |
| n. (object) | 5. wall | a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain). |
| ~ cave | a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea. |
| ~ geological formation, formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. wall | a layer of material that encloses space.; "the walls of the cylinder were perforated"; "the container's walls were blue" |
| ~ layer, bed | single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance.; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" |
| n. (artifact) | 7. wall | a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden).; "the wall followed the road"; "he ducked behind the garden wall and waited" |
| ~ fence, fencing | a barrier that serves to enclose an area. |
| ~ party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners. |
| ~ retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth). |
| n. (artifact) | 8. bulwark, rampart, wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes.; "they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down" |
| ~ antonine wall | a fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde); built in 140 to mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain. |
| ~ bailey | the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle. |
| ~ battlement, crenelation, crenellation | a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns. |
| ~ chinese wall, great wall, great wall of china | a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width. |
| ~ earthwork | an earthen rampart. |
| ~ embankment | a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection. |
| ~ fortification, munition | defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it. |
| ~ fraise | sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes. |
| ~ merlon | a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement. |
| v. (competition) | 9. fence, fence in, palisade, surround, wall | surround with a wall in order to fortify. |
| ~ protect | shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage.; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain" |
| ~ stockade | surround with a stockade in order to fortify. |
| ~ circumvallate | surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification. |
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