Counterfort vs. Wall — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Counterfort and Wall
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Counterfort
A buttress built against a wall.
Wall
A wall is a structure and a surface that defines an area; carries a load; provides security, shelter, or soundproofing; or, is decorative.
Counterfort
A spur of a mountain range.
Wall
An upright structure of masonry, wood, plaster, or other building material serving to enclose, divide, or protect an area, especially a vertical construction forming an inner partition or exterior siding of a building.
Counterfort
A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
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Wall
Often walls A continuous structure of masonry or other material forming a rampart and built for defensive purposes.
Counterfort
A spur or projection of a mountain.
Wall
A structure of stonework, concrete, or other material built to retain a flow of water.
Wall
Something resembling a wall in appearance, function, or construction, as the exterior surface of a body organ or part
The abdominal wall.
Wall
Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength
A wall of silence.
A wall of fog.
Wall
An extreme or desperate condition or position, such as defeat or ruin
Driven to the wall by poverty.
Wall
(Sports) The vertical surface of an ocean wave in surfing.
Wall
To enclose, surround, or fortify with or as if with a wall
Wall up an old window.
Wall
To divide or separate with or as if with a wall. Often used with off
Wall off half a room.
Wall
To confine or seal behind a wall; immure
"I determined to wall [the body] up in the cellar" (Edgar Allan Poe).
Wall
To block or close (an opening or passage, for example) with or as if with a wall.
Wall
A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
Wall
A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
The town wall was surrounded by a moat.
Wall
Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
We're adding another wall in this room during the remodeling.
The wind blew against the walls of the tent.
Wall
A point of desperation.
Wall
A point of defeat or extinction.
Wall
An impediment to free movement.
A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps.
Wall
The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
Wall
A barrier.
A seawall;
A firewall
Wall
A barrier to vision.
Wall
Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
A wall of sound;
A wall of water
Wall
A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
Wall
(auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
Wall
A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
Wall
(soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
Wall
(roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
Wall
(mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
Wall
(Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
Wall
(role playing games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
Wall
The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
Wall
(historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian.
Wall
(cycling) A very steep slope.
Wall
A spring of water.
Wall
(nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
Wall
To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
He walled the study with books.
Wall
To boil.
Wall
To well, as water; spring.
Wall
To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
Wall
A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
Wall
A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
The plaster of the wall of the King's palace.
Wall
A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
In such a night,Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls.
To rush undaunted to defend the walls.
Wall
An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
Wall
The side of a level or drift.
Wall
To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
The king of Thebes, Amphion,That with his singing walled that city.
Wall
To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
The terror of his name that walls us in.
Wall
To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
Wall
An architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure;
The south wall had a small window
The walls were covered with pictures
Wall
An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;
They stormed the ramparts of the city
They blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down
Wall
Anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect;
A wall of water
A wall of smoke
A wall of prejudice
Negotiations ran into a brick wall
Wall
A masonry fence (as around an estate or garden);
The wall followed the road
He ducked behind the garden wall and waited
Wall
(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure;
Stomach walls
Wall
A vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
Wall
A layer of material that encloses space;
The walls of the cylinder were perforated
The container's walls were blue
Wall
A difficult or awkward situation;
His back was to the wall
Competition was pushing them to the wall
Wall
Surround with a wall in order to fortify
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