Wall-to-wall

Definition

wall /wↄ:l/ n ၁။ (က) တံတိုင္း။ 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] တံတိုင္း။ The mountain rose up in a steep wall of rock. ❍ The tidal wave formed a terrifying wall of water. ၃။ (ေသြးေၾကာ၊ အူေၾကာင္း စသည့္) နံရံ။ the abdominal wall ❍ the wall of an artery/a blood-vessel. v (esp passive) တံတိုင္း ခတ္သည္။ နံရံကာသည္။ a walled city/garden. ❏ come/run up against a brick wall [ IDM ] ေရွ႕မတိုးသာ ေအာင္ျဖစ္သည္။ There was a lot of bureaucracy involved and I kept coming up against a brick wall. ❏ to the wall [ IDM ] လြတ္ေပါက္မရိွေသာ အက်ပ္အတည္းသို႔။ 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 ) ေဒါကန္သည္။ စိတ္႐ႈပ္သည္။ 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 ] ျခားလိုက္သည္။ ကာလိုက္သည္။ ပိုင္းကန္႔လိုက္သည္။ Part of the yard had been walled off. ❏ walling n [U] ၁။ နံရံ၊ အကာအျဖစ္ အသံုးျပဳေသာ ပစၥည္း။ stone/concrete walling. ၂။ နံရံကာျခင္း။ တံတိုင္းခတ္ျခင္း။ a firm that does paving and walling. ❏ wall-mounted adj နံရံကပ္။ wall-mounted lights. ❏ wall of silence n ႏႈတ္ပိတ္ေရငံုေနျခင္း။ ( fig ) The investigators were confronted by a wall of silence. ❏ wall-painting n နံရံေဆးေရးပန္းခ်ီ။ ❏ walls have ears [ IDM ] ( saying ) ေရွ႕ေျပာေနာက္ၾကည့္။ ညေျပာေအာက္ၾကည့္။ ၾကမ္းၾကားေလၾကား။ Be careful what you say — even the walls have ears! ❏ wall-to-wall adj , adv ၁။ ခန္းလံုးျပည့္။ a wall-to-wall carpet ❍ a room carpeted wall-to-wall. See also FITTED ၁ ၂။ (infml) အဆက္မျပတ္။ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္။ အခ်ိန္ျပည့္။ wall-to-wall TV sports coverage. ❏ wall sth up [ PHRV ] နံရံျဖင့္ပိတ္ကာသည္။ a walled-up door/fireplace/passage. See also STONEWALL

Examples

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