wall (noun)

  • 11Wall Street Crash — ˌWall Street ˈCrash noun FINANCE 1. the period in October 1929 when shares and other investments in the US fell in value by very large amounts, and that was followed by the depression 2. October 19, 1987, when shares in the US fell in value by… …

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  • 12wall tree — noun : a tree (as a fruit tree) trained against a wall * * * wall tree noun A tree trained against a wall • • • Main Entry: ↑wall …

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  • 13wall pepper — noun mossy European creeping sedum with yellow flowers; widely introduced as a ground cover • Syn: ↑Sedum acre • Hypernyms: ↑stonecrop • Member Holonyms: ↑genus Sedum * * * noun : a stonecrop ( …

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  • 14wall rue spleenwort — noun small delicate spleenwort found on a steep slope (as a wall or cliff) of Eurasia and North America • Syn: ↑wall rue, ↑Asplenium ruta muraria • Hypernyms: ↑spleenwort * * * noun see wall rue …

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  • 15wall lizard — noun : a common lizard (Lacerta muralis) of southern Europe, Asia Minor, and northern Africa that frequents houses and lives in the chinks and crevices of walls * * * wall lizard or wall newt noun A common lizard living in the chinks of walls • • …

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  • 16wall-to-wall — adj 1.) [only before noun] covering the whole floor ▪ wall to wall carpeting 2.) informal filling all the space or time available, especially in a way you do not like ▪ wall to wall advertising on TV …

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  • 17wall game — noun (also Eton wall game) a variety of football played at Eton against a wall (‘at the wall’ instead of ‘in the field’) • • • Main Entry: ↑wall …

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  • 18wall chart — UK US noun [countable] [singular wall chart plural wall charts] a large piece of paper that contains information on a particular subject and is fastened to a wall Thesaurus: graphs, charts and diagramshyponym …

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  • 19wall pellitory — noun herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers • Syn: ↑pellitory of the wall, ↑pellitory, ↑Parietaria difussa • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Member Holonyms: ↑ …

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  • 20wall cress — noun : any of several low growing or mat forming cresses that are often cultivated in rock gardens or allowed to spread over walls: as a. : a rock cress of the genus Arabis b. : mouse ear cress c. : aubrietia 2 …

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