a-wall teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı
- Antonine Wall
- A fortification of stone and turf built by the Roman Empire across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland
- Berlin Wall
- Any barrier designed to keep people from crossing a border, e.g. the one proposed by some conservatives in the US to keep Mexicans out of their country
- Berlin Wall
- A wall constructed by the Soviet Union to keep East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin
- Chinese Wall
- A barrier of silence and secrecy established within an organization in order to cope with confidentiality requirements
The enthusiasm for handy phrases of verbal shorthand is understandable. Occasionally, however, lawyers and judges use a term which is singularly inappropriate. Chinese Wall is one such piece of legal flotsam which should be emphatically abandoned. The term has an ethnic focus which many would consider a subtle form of linguistic discrimination. Certainly, the continued use of the term would be insensitive to the ethnic identity of the many persons of Chinese descent.
- Great Wall
- Shortened form of the Great Wall of China
- Great Wall
- Either of two identified areas containing hundreds of galaxies
- Great Wall of China
- An ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols
- Hadrian's Wall
- A fortification of stone and timber built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England
- Wall Street
- The physical street in lower Manhattan and the financial institutions located (or formerly located) there
- Wall Street
- : American financial markets, financial institutions as a whole, or by extension, big-business interests
- abdominal wall
- The layer of muscles that surrounds the abdominal cavity and contains the abdominal organs
- adiabatic wall
- Any interface through which there is no transfer of heat or entropy
- back to the wall
- A situation with no other options remaining
His back to the wall, Ahmedinajad resorted to the tactic favored by cornered politicians everywhere: distract attention from yourself by pointing to a bogeyman.
- back wall
- The wall at the back of a racquetball or squash court, directly opposite the front wall
- balls to the wall
- full throttle; maximum speed
- balls to the wall
- Maximum effort or commitment
I told the staff...the day before the hurricane struck that I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could, that it was balls to the wall, that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do anything—to do everything they humanly could to respond.
- beat one's head against a stone wall
- to waste effort on a futile project
- break the fourth wall
- To apparently communicate with reality directly, such as when characters of literature comment on the existence of a reader
- breaking the fourth wall
- Present participle of break the fourth wall
- breaks the fourth wall
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of break the fourth wall
- brick wall
- An obstacle
They all ran up against the brick wall of high cost until the cryogenic option was proven feasible in 1973. —.
- broke the fourth wall
- Simple past of break the fourth wall
- broken the fourth wall
- Past participle of break the fourth wall
- cavity wall
- A double wall of masonry connected by an air space
- cell wall
- A thick, fairly rigid, layer formed around individual cells of bacteria, Archaea, fungi, plants, and algae (but not animals and other protists which generally have cell membranes without cell walls). The cell wall is external to the cell membrane and serves a structural function helping the cell maintain its shape and protecting the cell from damage
Think of the cell wall as a wicker basket in which a balloon has been inflated so that it exerts pressure from the inside. Such a basket is very rigid and resistant to mechanical damage.
- cell-wall
- Alternative spelling of cell wall
- chest wall
- The set of tissues that bound the thoracic cavity, including the rib cage, fascia, muscles etc
- climbing wall
- An artificial wall used for the sport of climbing
- cosmic wall
- A hypothetical 2-dimensional analog of a cosmic string
- diaphragm wall
- A structure inserted in the ground and used to maintain an excavation open or to isolate portions of contaminated ground. It can be built of any material from steel to reinforced concrete
- domain wall
- A two-dimensional singularity hypothesized in string theory
The simplest soliton is the domain wall with co-dimension one, and the next simplest is the vortex with co-dimension two, whereas the co-dimension three (four) soliton is called monopole (instanton).
- domain wall
- An interface separating magnetic domains
A domain wall corresponds to the rotation of the magnetization vector from one magnetic domain to another.
- drive someone up the wall
- To make a person very angry or bored; to infuriate
There is nothing and no one that's going to shut him up. That's what makes Tucker funny. It's also what can drive you up the wall about him. - , 1998.
- fly on the wall
- A quiet, non-participating, or unseen observer; an eavesdropper or witness
James W. Gerard, ex-Ambassador to Germany, the first speaker of the evening, said that at that moment he would like to be a fly on the wall of the palace at Potsdam to hear what the Potsdam gang were saying about our soldiers.
- fourth wall
- The boundary between the fiction and the audience
I've saved the worst for last. The crudest scheme is to drop the fourth wall and advise players as to actions that are inhibiting.
- fourth wall
- The imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play
There's been a convention in the theater world to think of the division between audience and spectacle as a fourth wall, a wall that the playwright tries to eliminate through the force of his drama.
- fourth-wall
- Alternative spelling of fourth wall
- front wall
- The main and largest wall in a racquetball or squash court, which the ball must hit in a rally
- go to the wall
- To fail, to run out of options
- go to the wall
- To make an all-out effort
That was the one point he was willing to go to the wall on.
- handwriting on the wall
- Alternative form of writing on the wall. A divine prediction or sentence to fate
- hole-in-the-wall
- a small or obscure place, especially such a restaurant
- hole-in-the-wall
- an automated teller machine (ATM)
- hot wall
- A brick wall, that has enclosed flues connected to a fire, onto which fruit trees are attached in order to hasten growth and ripening
- off-the-wall
- Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd
She is a very off-the-wall character.
- off-the-wall
- Greatly inappropriate
His behaviour today is off-the-wall.
- party wall
- A commonly shared wall dividing two properties
- piss money up the wall
- to waste money, normally through ineptness in business
- power wall
- Behind retail sales counters in jurisdictions where tobacco advertising has been banned or heavily restricted, a prominent, enticing display of tobacco products
When you go into your local convenience or grocery store after May 31, 2008, you'll notice the power wall displays of tobacco products behind the counter are gone.
- power wall
- In retail selling, a large, visually appealing display of products intended to attract the interest of customers
The new layout features a room solutions orientation, navigational signage, lower-profile fixtures and power walls for key categories like towels.
- retaining wall
- any of several structures used to restrain a vertical-faced mass of earth
- screen wall
- a nonstructural wall erected around units or curbs on a roof. Typically the framing consists of girts with a wood or metal covering attached to the frame
- side wall
- One of the two parallel walls in a racquetball or squash court, perpendicular to the front wall
- throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick
- If enough (perhaps false or reckless) accusations are made against someone, his reputation will suffer, whether or not this is deserved
Word of advice NVUS time to distance yourself from LuukH as quickly as possible and dish some dirt, otherwise well the saying goes - throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick.
- throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick
- Try the same thing (or similar things) often enough, and, even if the general standard is poor, sometimes one will be successful
Believe the planners worked on the principle of throw enough mud at the wall, and some of it will stick.
- throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick
- Try the same thing (or similar things) often enough, and, even if the general standard is poor, sometimes one will be successful
There used to be a saying that if you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick. Be enthusiastic and you will always sell.
- throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick
- If enough (perhaps false or reckless) accusations are made against a person (or organisation), his reputation will suffer, whether or not this is deserved
Perhaps If you stuff both of them into a sack and beat on it, you'll always hit the right one! is a bit like our If you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick. If you attack something enough, then something is bound to take effect (although the mud and the wall one is generally about a person's reputation).
- tieback wall
- A brick wall reinforced with horizontal wires for stability
- up against the wall
- Trapped, cornered; discommoded, discomfited; in a quandary
The IRS had me up against the wall.
- up the wall
- crazy, mad
Those noisy children are driving me up the wall.
- wag-at-the-wall
- Having an exposed pendulum
- wall
- A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity
The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose trigones at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.
- wall
- A spring of water
- wall
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc
The town wall was surrounded by a moat.
- wall
- (with "in") To enclose by surrounding with walls
They had walled in the garden.
- wall
- To boil
- wall
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction. Also called a chandelier
- wall
- To enclose with a wall
He walled the study with books.
- wall
- A type of butterfly (Lasiommata megera)
- wall
- To well, as water; spring
- wall
- (with "up") To seal with a wall
They walled up the basement space that had been used as a coal bin.
- wall
- A temporary impediment to free movement
A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.
- wall
- (with "off") To separate with a wall
The previous owners had walled off two rooms, making an apartment.
- wall
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure
The wind blew against the walls of the tent.
- wall
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes
- wall
- A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal
- wall clocks
- plural form of wall clock
- wall energy
- The energy per unit area of the boundary between adjoining ferromagnetic domains in a solid
- wall in
- To enclose by surrounding with walls
They had walled in the garden.
- wall kick
- A sideways movement that results from a rotation of a piece that touches the left or right walls in the video game Tetris
- wall kicks
- plural form of wall kick
- wall of sound
- A popular music production technique, developed in the 1960s, in which a number of guitarists perform the same parts in unison and the resulting sound is re-recorded in an echo chamber
- wall of text
- A large and intimidating piece of writing, particularly one with few or no paragraph breaks
- wall plug
- A fixing that allows screws to be fitted into masonry walls
- wall plugs
- plural form of wall plug
- wall railing
- a hand railing attached to a wall
- wall ride
- A trick where the rider makes the bottom of the board touch the side of a wall
- wall socket
- Any outlet or recess in a wall
- wall socket
- A mains electricity power point mounted in or on a wall inside a dwelling or other building
- wall sockets
- plural form of wall socket
- wall unit
- A set of furniture pieces (bookshelves, cabinet etc.) standing against the wall of a room
- wall wart
- A large power supply
- wall-clock
- Attributive form of wall clock
wall-clock imperturbability.
- wall-pecker
- A person who participated in bringing down the Berlin Wall in November 1989
- wall-to-wall
- pervasive or ubiquitous
The TV showed wall-to-wall coverage of the bombing.
- wall-to-wall
- that covers all of the floor of a room
- writing on the wall
- An ominous warning; a prediction of bad luck
He could see the writing on the wall months before the business failed.
- wall
- {i} side support for buildings; barricade; side; partition
- stub wall
- (Araçlar) A low wall placed monolithically with a concrete floor or other members to provide for control and attachment of wall forms
- wall
- A wall is a long narrow vertical structure made of stone or brick that surrounds or divides an area of land. He sat on the wall in the sun
- wall
- A wall is one of the vertical sides of a building or room. Kathryn leaned against the wall of the church The bedroom walls would be painted light blue She checked the wall clock. + -walled -walled a glass-walled elevator
- wall
- {f} enclose with a wall; divide with a wall, fill up with a wall (doorway, etc.); seal with a wall; fortify; (Slang) lean or stand or sit or rest against a wall at a social gathering
- wall
- {s} of a side support for buildings
- wall-to-wall
- You can use wall-to-wall to describe something that fills or seems to fill all the available space. television's wall-to-wall soccer coverage
- up against the wall
- (Ev ile ilgili) in serious difficulties
- up against the wall
- (Ev ile ilgili) there is a lot of work to do and it is likely very difficult to achieve a goal
- wall
- The wall of something that is hollow is its side. He ran his fingers along the inside walls of the box
- wall
- {v} to inclose or defend with a wall
- wall
- {n} a partition of brick fence, defense
- wall-louse
- {n} the name of an insect of many feet
- cell wall
- The rigid outermost cell layer found in plants and certain algae, bacteria, and fungi but characteristically absent from animal cells
- chest wall
- (Anatomi) The thoracic wall (or chest wall) is the boundary of the thoracic cavity
- chinese wall
- A barrier, especially one that seriously hinders communication or understanding: “still believe a Chinese wall can exist between public and private selves” (Gail Sheehy)
- hanging wall
- (Jeoloji) The mass of rock overlying a mineral deposit in a mine
- hit the wall
- (deyim) 1. Reach the point of physical exhaustion during strenuous activity 2. Reach a limiting point or situation at which progress or success ceases3. If you hit the wall when you are trying to achieve something, you reach a situation where you cannot make any more progress
- hit the wall
- (deyim) (of an athlete) experience a sudden loss of energy in a long race
- retaining wall
- Structure designed to restrain soil to unnatural slopes
- thoracic wall
- (Anatomi) The thoracic wall (or chest wall) is the boundary of the thoracic cavity
- wall planner
- A list or chart hanging on a wall with information that is an aid to planning
- wall to wall coalition
- agreement in which all parties take part
- wall-to-wall
- A wall-to-wall carpet covers the floor of a room completely
- wall-to-wall carpet
- carpet that is attached to the floor and covers the entire surface
- wall-to-wall inventory
- (Ticaret) A physical inventory of all items within a given warehouse or facility
