Sea wall () A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. |
Section (n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting |
Section (n.) A part separated from something |
Section (n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing |
Section (n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like |
Section (n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided |
Section (n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point. |
Section (n.) A division of a genus |
Section (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase. |
Section (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane |
Unit (n.) A single thing or person. |
Unit (n.) The least whole number |
Unit (n.) A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. |
Unit (n.) Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind. |
Unit (n.) A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole. |
Upper (comp.) Being further up, literally or figuratively |
Upper (n.) The upper leather for a shoe |
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 |
whole unit | an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity, how big is that part compared to the whole?, the team is a unit |
d cesarean delivery caesarean delivery caesarian delivery cesarean section cesarian section caesarean section caesarian section C-section cesarean cesarian caesarean caesarian abdominal delivery a b a a | the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) |
Section Eight | a discharge from the US Army based on unfitness or character traits deemed undesirable |
incision section surgical incision | the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation) |
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 |
amphetamine pep pill upper speed | a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite, used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression |
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 |
booster booster rocket booster unit takeoff booster takeoff rocket | the first stage of a multistage rocket |
bracket wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
Bunker Buster Guided Bomb Unit- GBU- | a , pound laser-guided bomb that can be programmed to penetrate to a given depth before exploding, used to penetrate hardened underground facilities |
cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
central processing unit CPU C.P.U. central processor processor mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
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 |
fixer-upper | a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price) |
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 |
horizontal section | a mechanical drawing of an object as if made by a plane cutting through it horizontally |
loudspeaker speaker speaker unit loudspeaker system speaker system | electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance |
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 |
rerebrace upper cannon | cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm |
retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
round unit of ammunition one shot | a charge of ammunition for a single shot |
second balcony family circle upper balcony peanut gallery | rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats |
section segment | one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object, a section of a fishing rod, metal sections were used below ground, finished the final segment of the road |
semiconductor device semiconductor unit semiconductor | a conductor made with semiconducting material |
stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
upper | piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot, Uppers come in many styles |
upper berth upper | the higher of two berths |
upper deck | a higher deck |
upper surface | the side that is uppermost |
vertical section | a mechanical drawing showing the interior of an object as if made by a vertical plane passing through it |
visual display unit VDU | (British) British term for video display |
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 |
unit character | (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene |
stiff upper lip | selfestraint in the expression of emotion (especially fear or grief), the British like to keep a stiff upper lip |