expulsion
projection
ejection forcing out | the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting |
protrusion
projection jut
jutting | the act of projecting out from something |
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 |
conformal projection
orthomorphic projection | a map projection in which a small area is rendered in its true shape |
conic projection
conical projection | a map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles |
dry wall
dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
equal-area projection
equal-area map projection | a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe |
gable
gable end
gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
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 |
| homolosine projection | an equal-area projection map of the globe, oceans are distorted in order to minimize the distortion of the continents |
| map projection | a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude |
Mercator projection
Mercator's projection | a map projection of the earth onto a cylinder, areas appear greater the farther they are from the equator |
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 |
| polyconic projection | a conic projection of a map having distances between meridians equal to those distances on a globe |
| projection | any structure that branches out from a central support |
| projection | the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction |
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) |
screen silver screen
projection screen | a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing |
sinusoidal projection
Sanson-Flamsteed projection | an equal-area map projection showing parallels and the equator as straight lines and other meridians as curved, used to map tropical latitudes |
| 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 |
| projection | a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations |
project
projection | a planned undertaking |
| projection | the projection of an image from a film onto a screen |
Wall Street
the Street | used to allude to the securities industry of the United States |
| 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 |
| hanging wall | the upper wall of an inclined fault |