Fences - English meaning

noun

A long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon.

Usage examples:

An iron bar

verb

Fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars.

Usage examples:

She bolted and barred the door

preposition

Except for.

Usage examples:

His kids were all gone now, bar one

noun

An improvised barrier erected across a street or other thoroughfare to prevent or delay the movement of opposing forces.

Usage examples:

They built barricades in the narrow streets

verb

Block or defend with a barricade.

Usage examples:

They barricaded the building and occupied it all night

noun

A fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access.

Usage examples:

The mountain barrier between norway and sweden

noun

Anything used or acting to block someone from going somewhere or from doing something, or to block something from happening

Usage examples:

The secret service erected concrete barriers around the white house., jackie robinson was the afric…

noun

Something that prevents something else from happening or makes it more difficult

Usage examples:

Barrier (to sth) in an ideal world, there would be no barriers to the free movement of people betwe…

verb

Walk or run with leaping strides.

Usage examples:

Louis came bounding down the stairs

noun

A leaping movement towards or over something.

Usage examples:

I went up the steps in two effortless bounds

verb

Form the boundary of; enclose.

Usage examples:

The ground was bounded by a main road on one side and a meadow on the other

noun

A round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the centre).

Usage examples:

Draw a circle with a compass

verb

Move all the way around (someone or something), especially more than once.

Usage examples:

They were circling athens airport

verb

Restrict (something) within limits.

Usage examples:

The minister's powers are circumscribed both by tradition and the organization of local government

verb

To limit something

Usage examples:

Their movements have been severely circumscribed since the laws came into effect., there followed a…

verb

If you circumscribe a triangle, square, etc., you draw a circle that surrounds it and touches each of its corners.

noun

A defensive wall of a castle or walled city.

Usage examples:

A small stream encircled the space between the inner and outer circumvallations

noun

A person who buys and sells goods.

Usage examples:

A dealer in foreign stamps

noun

A person or company that buys and sells something

Usage examples:

An antiques dealer, a used-car dealer

noun

A company or a person that sells a particular type of product

Usage examples:

A car/auto/motor dealer, art/arms/scrap metal dealer, bonuses paid to city of london dealers rose s…

noun

The action of defending from or resisting attack.

Usage examples:

Methods of defence against this kind of attack

noun

An argument or explanation which you use to prove that you are not guilty of something

Usage examples:

Now he says he's done nothing wrong, and i assume that will be his defence in court., a defense att…

verb

Form a circle around; surround.

Usage examples:

The town is encircled by fortified walls

verb

To surround or form a circle around something

Usage examples:

A parking lot encircles the mall.

verb

Surround or close off on all sides.

Usage examples:

The entire estate was enclosed with walls

verb

To surround

Usage examples:

The garden is enclosed by four walls., please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

verb

To include something inside a letter or parcel

Usage examples:

Apply in writing, enclosing a current cv, to the address below., please find enclosed an applicatio…

noun

An area that is surrounded by a barrier.

Usage examples:

A deer enclosure

verb

Surround and have or hold within.

Usage examples:

This area of london encompasses piccadilly to the north and st james's park to the south

noun

A low wall or sturdy barrier built out into the sea from a beach to check erosion and drifting.

Usage examples:

Four new groynes - timber planking walls running down the beach towards the water - will help trap …

noun

A low wall built out from the coast into the sea, to prevent the repeated movement of the waves from removing parts of the land

noun

A fence or boundary formed by closely growing bushes or shrubs.

Usage examples:

A privet hedge

verb

Surround with a hedge.

Usage examples:

A garden hedged with yew

noun

A line of bushes or small trees planted close together, esp. along the edge of a yard or road

Usage examples:

She invested in foreign companies as a hedge against inflation., [ t ] congressmen were warned agai…

noun

A rough or mixed hedge of wild shrubs and occasional trees, typically bordering a road or field.

Usage examples:

It will gobble up your fields and hedgerows, your trees and wildlife habitats.

noun

A line of different types of bushes and small trees growing very close together, especially between fields or along the sides of roads in the countryside

noun

One of a series of upright frames over which athletes in a race must jump.

Usage examples:

A hurdle race

verb

Take part in a hurdle race.

Usage examples:

This gelding hurdled fluently

verb

Cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others.

Usage examples:

A country which is isolated from the rest of the world

noun

A person or thing that has been or become isolated.

Usage examples:

Social isolates often become careless of their own welfare

verb

Place or set apart

noun

A fence made from pointed wooden or metal posts.

Usage examples:

The post and wire fence at the end of the road needed attention - in the long term, a hedge, wooden…

verb

Become pale in one's face from shock or fear.

Usage examples:

I paled at the thought of what she might say

noun

A fence made from long, thin pieces of wood

Usage examples:

He has just put up a paling around the house.

noun

A fence of wooden stakes or iron railings fixed in the ground, forming an enclosure or defence.

Usage examples:

At this time fortifications consisted mainly of earth banks and wooden palisades

verb

Enclose or provide (a building or place) with a palisade.

Usage examples:

He palisaded the ends of the streets, and made the town a roughly fortified camp

noun

A long row of cliffs (= high area of rock with a steep side)

noun

(especially with reference to a country with separate areas of government) the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.

Usage examples:

The country's partition into separate states

verb

Divide into parts.

Usage examples:

An agreement was reached to partition the country

noun

The division of something into smaller parts, or something that divides a space

Usage examples:

[ u ] the partition of the building into separate apartments brought in enough income that she coul…

noun

The action of protecting, or the state of being protected.

Usage examples:

The b vitamins give protection against infection

noun

The condition or state of being kept safe from injury, damage, or loss

Usage examples:

[ u ] their tent offered little protection against the storm., [ c ] the proposed law is intended t…

noun

The act of keeping someone or something safe from injury, damage, or loss, or the state of being protected in this way

Usage examples:

We need protection from bad or incompetent doctors., retailers believe the magnetic cards give the …

noun

A person who sells illegal drugs.

Usage examples:

An underworld of drug pushers and thieves

noun

Someone who sells illegal drugs

noun

A bar or series of bars fixed on upright supports or attached to a wall or ceiling, serving as part of a barrier or used to hang things on.

Usage examples:

A curtain rail

verb

Provide or enclose (a space or place) with a rail or rails.

Usage examples:

The altar is railed off from the nave

verb

Complain or protest strongly and persistently about.

Usage examples:

He railed at human fickleness

noun

A fence or barrier made of rails.

Usage examples:

Wrought-iron railings

verb

Provide or enclose (a space or place) with a rail or rails.

Usage examples:

The altar is railed off from the nave

verb

Complain or protest strongly and persistently about.

Usage examples:

He railed at human fickleness

noun

A defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet.

Usage examples:

A castle with ramparts and a moat

verb

Fortify or surround with or as if with a rampart.

Usage examples:

The town's streets were ramparted with tall mounds of rubble

noun

A large wall built round a town, castle, etc. to protect it

noun

The part of a telephone apparatus contained in the earpiece, in which electrical signals are converted into sounds.

Usage examples:

Working independently, gray and bell both developed systems based on electromagnetic receivers with…

noun

Abbreviation for smart export guarantee: an arrangement by which companies in the uk that supply electricity pay customers for extra renewable electricity those customers have produced and returned to the national grid (= a system of special wires that take electricity from power stations to all parts of a country)

Usage examples:

There are no set or minimum tariffs for the seg., to start receiving accurate seg payments, it's li…

noun

A barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defence against attack or as a means of confining animals.

Usage examples:

They built stockades around their towns

verb

Enclose (an area) by erecting a stockade.

Usage examples:

They fortified themselves strongly and stockaded the city

verb

Be all round (someone or something).

Usage examples:

The hotel is surrounded by its own gardens

noun

A thing that forms a border or edging round an object.

Usage examples:

An oak fireplace surround

verb

To be around something on all sides

Usage examples:

Snow-capped mountains surround the city., the house was surrounded by dense woods., i’m interested …

noun

A person who deals or trades in something illegal.

Usage examples:

A convicted drug trafficker

noun

Someone who is involved in illegal trade

Usage examples:

Ivory traffickers

noun

A person who buys and sells goods or people illegally

Usage examples:

Last year's crop earned afghan opium farmers and traffickers $2.3 billion.

noun

A continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land.

Usage examples:

A garden wall

verb

Another term for wall brown.

noun

A vertical structure that divides or encloses something

Usage examples:

The walls of the fortress were more than eighteen inches thick., we’d like the walls painted white.

noun

A thing, such as a row of trees or a fence, wall, or screen, that provides shelter or protection from the wind.

Usage examples:

But as you rise, the air becomes cooler and you find yourself in hanging river valleys where the mo…

noun

Something that gives protection from the wind, such as a row of trees, bushes, or a wall