wall

«wall» in Mova's school dictionary: one of the sides of a room or building — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (wall, walls); verb (wall in, wall off — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) A wall is one of the sides of a room or building. tree →

2) A wall is also a fence of stone or brick around a garden, field or town. tree →

3) A wall can be a thing that stops you, like «a wall of water» or «hit a wall» (to get stuck). tree →

4) The wall of a body part is its outer layer, like the stomach wall. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: area to paint or tile (length × height); length or height of a wall; things hung on each wall; a room with 4 walls. In everyday life: pictures and posters on the wall, a garden wall, a climbing wall. In history: city walls, the Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall. Phrases: «on the wall», «wall chart», «off the wall» (strange).

examples

• The wall is 4 meters long and 3 meters high. tree →
• She painted 2 walls. tree →
• Each wall has 5 pictures. tree →
• A room has 4 walls. tree →
• We put our drawings on the classroom wall. tree →
• Hadrian's Wall was built by the Romans across northern England. tree →
• The cat jumped onto the garden wall. tree →
• Kids queued for the climbing wall at the fair. tree →
• The monkeys leaped higher up the walls. tree →

note

Countable: «a wall», «walls». Things are «on» a wall (a picture on the wall), but «in» a wall (a hole in the wall). Maths: area of a wall = length × height; take away windows and doors. Pictures per wall is a rate. A room often hides the number 4. Safety: do not climb on high walls.

In the corpora

• Living close to other people means sharing streets, walls, parking spaces and rules.
• If the remote is lost, the power button on the TV itself, or on the wall, switches it off.
• A mural is a big planned painting on a wall; without permission painting on walls is damage, even at home.
• A mural is a big wall painting done with permission, often paid for by councils, building owners or festivals.
• Some cities have legal walls, also called free walls, where graffiti is allowed, and the paintings change quickly.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wall» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.