wall→have your back to/against the wall, →be (like) banging your head against a brick wall1, →like talking to a brick wall, →the writing is on the wall, →off-the-wallTESAUROwallan upright flat structure made of stone or brick, that divides one area from another or surrounds an ...
in the garden.come up with a design(=think of or suggest one)We asked the architect to come up with another design.design + NOUNa design feature(=something interesting or attractive that is part of the design)The aircraft has some novel design features.a design fault/flaw(=a part of ...
that in print is rendered as ‘harrumph’.render something sthInfrared film renders blue skies a deep black.render something in somethinga sculpture rendered in bronze4→render something into English/Russian/Chinese etc5technicaltospreadplasterorcementon the surface of a walla brick wall that has ...
2 [transitive] to form a border along the edge of something a path bordered by a high brick wall→ border on something→ Ver Tabla de verbos Ejemplos desde el Corpusborder• The Black Sea borders a half-dozen countries.• With three air-force pilots along for the ride, James flew ...
theirrelationshipwith each otherrupture betweenThe eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.rupture withThe rupture with his father was absolute.3[countable]amedicalconditionin which anorganof the body, especially oneneartheabdomen,sticksout through thewallofmusclethat normally...
something had fallen down upstairs.•The firework went off with a loudbang.•Thefrontdoorslammedwith a loudbang.•If you canaffordit,leatherhas alotofbangfor a lot ofbucks.•Hewalkedawayfrom theaccidentwith only aslightbangon thehead.•Helayon thehornagain; there was another, more...