Cologne earth
() An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter |
Earth
(n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit |
Earth
(n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water |
Earth
(n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock |
Earth
(n.) A part of this globe |
Earth
(n.) Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things |
Earth
(n.) The people on the globe. |
Earth
(n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria. |
Earth
(n.) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta. |
Earth
(n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself |
Earth
(v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth |
Earth
(v. t.) To cover with earth or mold |
Earth
(v. i.) To burrow. |
Earth
(n.) A plowing. |
Earth flax
() A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. |
Earth shine
() See Earth light, under Earth. |
Earth-tongue
(n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
Middle-earth
(n.) The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. |
Sea wall
() A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. |
Wall
(n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope |
Wall
(n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. |
Wall
(n.) A defense |
Wall
(n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel |
Wall
(n.) The side of a level or drift. |
Wall
(n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. |
Wall
(v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. |
Wall
(v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls |
Wall
(v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. |
Wall-eye
(n.) An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color |
Wall-eye
(n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes |
Wall-eye
(n.) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus). |
Wall-eye
(n.) The alewife |
Wall-eyed
(a.) Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. |
Wall-plat
(n.) The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. |
Wall-sided
(a.) Having sides nearly perpendicular |
| scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
blue wall of silence
blue wall
wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
wall creeper
tichodrome
Tichodroma muriaria | crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
| Antonine Wall | a fortification miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde), built into mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain |
| bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
bracket
wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
| cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
Chinese Wall
Great Wall
Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
dry wall
dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
gable
gable end
gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
| ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
hanging
wall hanging | decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window, the cold castle walls were covered with hangings |
mural
wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
| party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
proscenium
proscenium wall | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
rampart
bulwark 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 |
| retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
| stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
| 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 |
| wall | a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden), the wall followed the road, he ducked behind the garden wall and waited |
| wall | a layer of material that encloses space, the walls of the cylinder were perforated, the container's walls were blue |
wallboard
drywall
dry wall | a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions, made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses |
| wall clock | a clock mounted on a wall |
| wall panel | paneling that forms part of a wall |
| wall plate | plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load |
wall socket
wall plug
electric outlet
electrical outlet
outlet electric receptacle | receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices |
| wall tent | a canvas tent with four vertical walls |
| wall unit | a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room |
wall
paries | (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure, stomach walls |
| abdominal wall | a wall of the abdomen |
worldly concern
earthly concern
world earth | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, they consider the church to be independent of the world |
| earth science | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts |
tremor
earth tremor
microseism | a small earthquake |
a Hizballah
Hezbollah
Hizbollah
Hizbullah
Lebanese Hizballah
Party of God
Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine
Revolutionary Justice Organization
Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
Wall Street
the Street | used to allude to the securities industry of the United States |
Earth
earth | the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell), it was hell on earth |
hell hell on earth
hellhole
snake pit
the pits
inferno | any place of pain and turmoil, the hell of battle, the inferno of the engine room, when you're alone Christmas is the pits, |
| hole-in-the-wall | a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place, his office was a hole-in-the-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 nd century, marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain |
Wall Street
Wall St. | a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located, symbol of American finance |
crust
Earth's crust | the outer layer of the Earth |
Earth
earth world
globe | the rd planet from the sun, the planet we live on, the Earth moves around the sun, he sailed around the world |
| hanging wall | the upper wall of an inclined fault |
land
dry land
earth ground
solid ground
terra firma | the solid part of the earth's surface, the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land, the earth shook for several minutes, he dropped the logs on the ground |
surface
Earth's surface | the outermost level of the land or sea, earthquakes originate far below the surface, three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water |
| 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 |
| wall | a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) |
| wall rock | a rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault |
earth-god
earth god | a god of fertility and vegetation |