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–noun

1.	the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem.

2.	the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for architectural and other purposes; timber or lumber.

3.

firewood.

4.	the cask, barrel, or keg, as distinguished from the bottle: aged in the wood.

5.	wood block (def. 1).

6.	Music. a. a woodwind instrument. b. the section of a band or orchestra composed of woodwinds.

7.	Often, woods. (used with a singular or plural verb) a large and thick collection of growing trees; a grove or forest: They picnicked in the woods.

8.	Golf. a club with a wooden head, as a driver, brassie, spoon, or baffy for hitting long shots. Compare iron (def. 5).

–adjective

9.	made of wood; wooden.

10.	used to store, work, or carry wood: a wood chisel.

11.	dwelling or growing in woods: wood bird.

–verb (used with object)

12.	to cover or plant with trees.

13.	to supply with wood; get supplies of wood for.

–verb (used without object)

14.	to take in or get supplies of wood (often fol. by up): to wood up before the approach of winter.

—Idioms

15.	have the wood on, Australian Slang. to have an advantage over or have information that can be used against.

16.	knock on wood, (used when knocking on something wooden to assure continued good luck): The car's still in good shape, knock on wood. Also, especially British, touch wood.

17.	out of the woods, a. out of a dangerous, perplexing, or difficult situation; secure; safe. b. no longer in precarious health or critical condition; out of danger and recovering.

–noun

1.

any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.

2.	Usually, walls. a rampart raised for defensive purposes.

3.	an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc., suggesting a wall: a wall of prejudice.

4.	a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc.: a wall of fire; a wall of troops.

5.	an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall.

6.	the Wall. Berlin Wall.

7.	the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object: the wall of a blood cell.

8.	Mining. a. the side of a level or drift. b. the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall.

–adjective

9.	of or pertaining to a wall: wall 81 space.

10.	growing against or on a wall: < 768 span class="ital-inline">wall plants; wall cress.

11.	situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall: wall oven; a wall safe.

–verb (used with object)

12.	to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc., with or as if with a wall (often fol. by in or off): to wall the yard; to wall in the play area; He is walled in by lack of opportunity.

13.	to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall: to wall an unused entrance.

14.	to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall (usually fol. by up): The workmen had walled up the cat quite by mistake.

—Idioms

15.	climb the walls or climb walls, Slang. to become tense or frantic: climbing the walls with boredom.

16.	drive or push to the wall, to force into a desperate situation; humiliate or ruin completely: Not content with merely winning the match, they used every opportunity to push the infe 875 rior team to the wall.

17.	go over the wall, Slang. to break out of prison: Roadblocks have been set up in an effort to capture several convicts who went over the wall.

18.	go to the wall, a. to be defeated in a conflict or competition; yield. b. to fail in business, esp. to become bankrupt. c. to be put aside or forgotten. d. to take an extreme and determined position or measure: I'd go to the wall to stop him from resigning.

19.	hit the wall, (of long-distance runners) to reach a point in a race, usually after 20 miles, when the body's fuels are virtually depleted and willpower becomes crucial to be able to finish.

20.	off the wall, Slang. a. beyond the realm of acceptability or reasonableness: The figure you quoted for doing the work is off the wall. b. markedly out of the ordinary; eccentric; bizarre: Some of the clothes in the fashion show were too off the wall for the average customer.

21.	up against the wall, a. placed against a wall to be executed by a firing squad. b. in a crucial or critical position, esp. one in which defeat or failure seems imminent: Unless sales improve next month, the company will be up against the wall.

22.	up the wall, Slang. into an acutely frantic, frustrated, or irritated state: The constant tension in the office is driving everyone up the wall.

–noun

1.	an instrument for measuring and recording time, esp. by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.

2.	time clock.

3.	a meter or other device, as a speedometer or taximeter, for measuring and recording speed, distance covered, or other quantitative functioning.

4.	biological clock.

5.	(initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Horologium.

6.	Computers. the circuit in a digital computer that provides a common reference train of electronic pulses for all other circuits.

–verb (used with object)

7.	to time, test, or determine by means of a clock or watch: The racehorse was clocked at two minutes thirty seconds.

8.	Slang. to strike sharply or heavily: Somebody clocked him on the face.

—Verb phrases

9.	clock in, to begin work, esp. by punching a time clock: She clocked in at 9 on the dot.

10.	clock out, to end work, esp. by punching a time clock: He clocked out early yesterday.

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11.	around the clock, a. during all 24 hours; ceaselessly. b. without stopping for rest; tirelessly: working around the clock to stem the epidemic.

12.	clean (someone's) clock, to defeat; vanquish.

13.	kill the clock, Sports. to use up as much game time as possible when one is winning, as to protect a lead in basketball, ice hockey, or football. Also, run out the clock.

14.	stop the clock, to postpone an official or legal deadline by ceasing to count the hours that elapse, as when a new union contract must be agreed upon before an old contract runs out.