wall of silence

US pronunciation

American soundwall of silence

wallofsilence

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final e often stays silent

wall - of - silence -> wall of silence

Myanmar meaning

(n) နှုတ်ပိတ်ရေငုံနေခြင်း။

Full entry

wall /wↄ:l/ n

၁။ (က) တံတိုင်း။ fields divided by stone walls ❍ a garden wall ❍ The old town had a wall all round it. See also SEA WALL (ခ) နံရံ။ ထရံ။ The castle walls were very thick. ❍ Hang the picture on the wall opposite the window.
၂။ အဆီးအတား။ [ဥ] တံတိုင်း။ The mountain rose up in a steep wall of rock. ❍ The tidal wave formed a terrifying wall of water.
၃။ (သွေးကြော၊ အူကြောင်း စသည့်) နံရံ။ the abdominal wall ❍ the wall of an artery/a blood-vessel.
v (esp passive) တံတိုင်း ခတ်သည်။ နံရံကာသည်။ a walled city/garden.
❏ come/run up against a brick wall [IDM ] ရှေ့မတိုးသာ အောင်ဖြစ်သည်။ There was a lot of bureaucracy involved and I kept coming up against a brick wall.
❏ to the wall [IDM ] လွတ်ပေါက်မရှိသော အကျပ်အတည်းသို့။ Many firms have gone to the wall in this recession. ❍ Charities have been squeezed dry and pushed to the wall.
❏ up the wall [IDM ] (infml ) ဒေါကန်သည်။ စိတ်ရှုပ်သည်။ That noise is driving/sending me up the wall. ❍ I'll go up the wall if it doesn't stop soon.
❏ wall sth in/ off [PHRV ] ခြားလိုက်သည်။ ကာလိုက်သည်။ ပိုင်းကန့်လိုက်သည်။ Part of the yard had been walled off.
❏ walling n [U]
၁။ နံရံ၊ အကာအဖြစ် အသုံးပြုသော ပစ္စည်း။ stone/concrete walling.
၂။ နံရံကာခြင်း။ တံတိုင်းခတ်ခြင်း။ a firm that does paving and walling.
❏ wall-mounted adj နံရံကပ်။ wall-mounted lights.
❏ wall of silence n နှုတ်ပိတ်ရေငုံနေခြင်း။ (fig ) The investigators were confronted by a wall of silence.
❏ wall-painting n နံရံဆေးရေးပန်းချီ။
❏ walls have ears [IDM ] (saying ) ရှေ့ပြောနောက်ကြည့်။ ညပြောအောက်ကြည့်။ ကြမ်းကြားလေကြား။ Be careful what you say — even the walls have ears!
❏ wall-to-wall adj , adv
၁။ ခန်းလုံးပြည့်။ a wall-to-wall carpet ❍ a room carpeted wall-to-wall. See also FITTED ၁
၂။ (infml) အဆက်မပြတ်။ တောက်လျှောက်။ အချိန်ပြည့်။ wall-to-wall TV sports coverage.
❏ wall sth up [PHRV ] နံရံဖြင့်ပိတ်ကာသည်။
a walled-up door/fireplace/passage. See also STONEWALL

More examples

On the opposite wall hung a valuable old painting.
She felt along the wall for the light switch.
The walls of the factory had been covered with graffiti.
Several men escaped over the prison’s perimeter wall yesterday.
The walls of the city
Over the top of the garden wall, he watched his neighbours.
Parts of the old brick walls had crumbled to the ground.
A sea wall
The years had built a wall between the two families.
[wall of] : A wall of silence had grown up between them.
[wall of] : A wall of books/boxes
A wall of dark water approached their small boat.
Firefighters battled the walls of flames.
Inflammation of the bowel wall
What can I write on my boyfriend’s Facebook wall for his 16th birthday?

Synonyms

partition, barrier, divider, fence, hedge, bank, bar, barricade, block, blockade, bulwark, confine, cordon off, curb, dam, embankment, enclose, enclosure, facade, fortification, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, levee, limitation, obstruction, palisade, panel, paneling, parapet, pen, rampart, restriction, retainer, roadblock, screen, seal off, side, stockade, stop, surface

Antonyms

aid, assistance, encouragement, freedom, help, inside, middle, opening, release