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 |
air hole | a hole that allows the passage of air |
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 |
Black Hole of Calcutta | a dungeon ( feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula, the next morning only were still alive |
bore bore-hole drill hole | a hole or passage made by a drill, usually made for exploratory purposes |
bracket wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
buttonhole button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
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 |
ear hole | a hole (as in a helmet) for sound to reach the ears |
finger hole | a hole for inserting a finger |
finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument, pitch changes when a finger covers it |
foxhole fox hole | a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire |
funk hole | dugout as a place of safe retreat (when in a funk) |
gable gable end gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
glory hole lazaretto | a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship |
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 |
hole | an opening deliberately made in or through something |
hole golf hole | one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course, he played holes |
hole card | (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown |
lubber's hole | hole in a platform on a mast through which a sailor can climb without going out on the shrouds |
mouth hole | a hole (as in a ski mask) for the mouth |
mural wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
nail hole | a hole left after a nail is removed |
party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
posthole post hole | a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post |
posthole digger post-hole digger | a shovel used to sink postholes |
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) |
shot hole | drill hole for a charge of an explosive |
smoke hole | a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape |
sound hole | a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones |
stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
vent venthole vent-hole blowhole | a hole for the escape of gas or air |
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 |
trap cakehole hole maw yap gob | informal terms for the mouth |
wall paries | (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure, stomach walls |