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A wall is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. Most commonly, a wall separates space in buildings into rooms, or protects or delineates a space in the open air. There are three principal types of structural walls: building walls, exterior boundary walls, and retaining walls. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1144x1529, 1583 KB) en: old brick wall Photo taken by Man vyi with Canon PowerShot A40 on 26/6/2005 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Wall...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1144x1529, 1583 KB) en: old brick wall Photo taken by Man vyi with Canon PowerShot A40 on 26/6/2005 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Wall...
A room is an enclosed space in a house or other building. ...
Building walls have two main purposes: to support roofs and ceilings, and to divide space, providing security against intrusion and weather. Such walls most often have three or more separate components. In today's construction, a building wall will usually have the structural elements (such as 2×4 studs in a house wall), insulation, and finish elements, or surface (such as drywall or panelling). In addition, the wall may house various types of electrical wiring or plumbing. Electrical outlets are usually mounted in walls. Building walls frequently become works of art, such as when murals are painted on them. Thermal insulation on the Huygens probe The term thermal insulation can refer to materials used to reduce the rate of heat transfer, or the methods and processes used to reduce heat transfer. ...
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Panelling is a wallcovering constructed from interlocking wooden components. ...
Electrical wiring in general refers to insulated conductors used to carry electricity, and associated devices. ...
A plumber wrench for working on pipes and fittings Plumbing, from the Latin for lead (plumbum), is the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing and plumbing fixtures for potable water systems and the drainage of waste. ...
Salle des illustres, ceiling painting, by Jean André Rixens. ...
On a ship, the walls separating compartments are termed 'Bulkheads', whilst the thinner walls separating cabins are termed 'Partitions'. A bulkhead is an upright wall within the hull of a ship. ...
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 Stone wall of an English barn Boundary walls include privacy walls, boundary-marking walls, and city walls. These intergrade into fences; the conventional differentiation is that a fence is of minimal thickness and often is open in nature, while a wall is usually more than a nominal thickness and is completely closed, or opaque. More to the point, if an exterior structure is made of wood or wire, it is generally referred to as a fence, while if it is made of masonry, it is considered a wall. A common term for both is barrier, convenient if it is partly a wall and partly a fence, e.g. the Berlin Wall. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (640x640, 79 KB) Stone wall from a barn in England. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (640x640, 79 KB) Stone wall from a barn in England. ...
A fence in Westtown Township, Pennsylvania A fence is a freestanding structure designed to restrict or prevent movement across a boundary. ...
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar. ...
Separation barriers (separation walls, security fences) are constructed to limit the movement of people across a certain line or border or to separate two populations. ...
East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961. ...
Before the invention of artillery, many European cities had protective walls. In fact, the English word "wall" is derived from Latin vallum, which was a type of fortification wall. Since they are no longer relevant for defense, the cities have grown beyond their walls, and many of the walls have been torn down. Extreme examples of boundary walls include the Great Wall of China and Hadrian's Wall. A modern functional example was the Berlin Wall, which divided Germany. Artillery with Gabion fortification Cannons on display at Fort Point Continental Artillery crew from the American Revolution Firing of an 18-pound gun, Louis-Philippe Crepin, (1772 – 1851) A forge-welded Iron Cannon in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. ...
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The city of Chicago, as seen from the sky The main square of the Catalan city of Sabadell during a popular celebration. ...
The defensive wall of Braşov, Romania. ...
A vallum was a type of palisade, used as part of the Roman defensive fortification system. ...
A section of the Great Wall near Beijing during winter The course of the Great Wall is shown in this map dated from 1805 The Great Wall (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: , literally long city wall) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built between 5th century...
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East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961. ...
In areas of rocky soils around the world, farmers have often pulled large quantities of stone out of their fields to make farming easier, and have stacked those stones to make walls that either mark the field boundary, or the property boundary, or both. Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 544 KB)Dry Stone Wall - Blackmile Lane, Grendon, Northamptonshire Picture by R Neil Marshman (c) RNM 23 May 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Wall Categories: GFDL images ...
Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 544 KB)Dry Stone Wall - Blackmile Lane, Grendon, Northamptonshire Picture by R Neil Marshman (c) RNM 23 May 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Wall Categories: GFDL images ...
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Retaining walls are a special type of wall, that may be either external to a building or part of a building, that serves to provide a barrier to the movement of earth, stone or water. The ground surface or water on one side of a retaining wall will be noticeably higher than on the other side. A dike is one type of retaining wall, as is a levee. Structure in the foreground is called a mud box - a kind of retaining wall built to hold the flood waters in check. ...
Afsluitdijk, a 32 km dike in the Netherlands. ...
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Special laws often govern walls shared by neighbouring properties. Typically, one neighbour cannot alter the common wall if it is likely to affect the building or property on the other side.
It is notable that English uses the same word to refer to an external wall, and the sides of a room... this is by no means universal, and many languages distinguish between the two. In German, some of this distinction can be seen between Wand and Mauer. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
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