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 |
| chart | a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea |
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 |
naval chart
navigational chart
pilot chart | a chart for a navigator showing the prevailing meteorological and hydrographic and navigational conditions |
| 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) |
| Snellen chart | display consisting of a printed card with letters and numbers in lines of decreasing size, used to test visual acuity |
| 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 |
weather map
weather chart | (meteorology) a map showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region |
wall
paries | (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure, stomach walls |
| abdominal wall | a wall of the abdomen |
| calorie chart | a list of foods and information about their caloric content |
flow chart
flowchart
flow diagram
flow sheet | a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system |
| chart | a visual display of information |
| organization chart | a chart showing the lines of responsibility between departments of a large organization |
| color chart | a chart displaying colors |
bar chart
bar graph | a chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities |
| eye chart | a chart that is read from a fixed distance, used as a test of vision |
| flip chart | a chart with several sheets hinged at the top, sheets can be flipped over to present information sequentially |
| pie chart | a circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole |
| star chart | a chart showing the relative positions of the stars in a particular part of the sky |
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) |