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 |
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 |
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 |
| 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 |
wallpaperer
wall-paperer | a worker who papers walls |
| cell wall | a rigid layer of polysaccharides enclosing the membrane of plant and prokaryotic cells, maintains the shape of the cell and serves as a protective barrier |
wall rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
Diplotaxis tenuifolia | yellow-flowered European plant that grows on old walls and in waste places, an adventive weed in North America |
Siberian wall flower
Erysimum allionii
Cheiranthus allionii | showy erect biennial or short-lived perennial cultivated for its terminal racemes of orange-yellow flowers, sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus |
western wall flower
Erysimum asperum
Cheiranthus asperus
Erysimum arkansanum | biennial or short-lived perennial prairie rocket having orange-yellow flowers, western North America to Minnesota and Kansas, sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus |
barley grass
wall barley
Hordeum murinum | European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows |
pellitory-of-the-wall
wall pellitory
pellitory Parietaria difussa | herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers |
wall pepper
Sedum acre | mossy European creeping sedum with yellow flowers, widely introduced as a ground cover |
wall germander
Teucrium chamaedrys | European perennial subshrub with red-purple or bright rose flowers with red and white spots |
rock polypody
rock brake American wall fern
Polypodium virgianum | chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia |
common polypody
adder's fern
wall fern
golden maidenhair
golden polypody sweet fern Polypodium vulgare | mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia |
wall rue
wall rue spleenwort
Asplenium ruta-muraria | small delicate spleenwort found on a steep slope (as a wall or cliff) of Eurasia and North America |
| wall | a difficult or awkward situation, his back was to the wall, competition was pushing them to the wall |