Retaining Wall

Specialty Definitions: Retaining Wall

Domain	Definitions
Building & Civil Engineering	A wall built to hold back earth or other solid material. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	A wall built to stabilize a slope. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Retaining Wall

English words defined with "retaining wall": ha-ha, haw-haw ♦ sunk fence. (references)

Specialty definitions using "retaining wall": agriculture on terraces, anchor block, anchor log, anchor wall ♦ cropping on terraces, curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles ♦ dead man, DUST-BRUSH ASSEMBLER ♦ Holme suction grab ♦ log crib construction ♦ pool billiard table ♦ Rankine's theory, relieving platform ♦ sheet pile wall, sheet-pile wall, shelf retaining wall ♦ terrace cultivation, terraced culture, tied retaining wall ♦ wedge theory. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Retaining Wall

Domain	Title
Books	Evaluation of the Inter-Lok Retaining Wall System (Technical Evaluation Report) (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Retaining Wall

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Photo Album: Retaining Wall

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	New Bedford Harbor, CDF 1. The retaining wall on the eastern edge.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Retaining Wall

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
retaining wall	1,861	material retaining wall	19
block retaining wall	249	boulder retaining wall	17
build retaining wall	216	picture retaining wall	16
building a retaining wall	169	idea retaining wall	16
stone retaining wall	122	pool retaining wall	15
retaining wall design	75	install a retaining wall	14
keystone retaining wall	73	retaining wall installation	14
retaining wall system	60	retaining wall drainage	13
wood retaining wall	59	anchor retaining wall	13
brick retaining wall	56	installing retaining wall	12
landscape retaining wall	51	keystone retaining wall system	12
fieldstone retaining wall	50	plan retaining wall	12
rock retaining wall	49	residential retaining wall	11
concrete retaining wall	49	build retaining wall wood	11
landscaping retaining wall	43	photo retaining wall	11
timber retaining wall	40	block cinder retaining wall	10
retaining wall construction	38	segmental retaining wall	10
retaining wall concrete block	37	diy retaining wall	10
garden retaining wall	28	retaining wall wooden	10
do it yourself retaining wall	27	cost retaining wall	10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Retaining Wall

Language		Translations for "retaining wall"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏جدار ساند. (various references)

Danish		støttemur, indfatningsmur (enclosing wall). (various references)

Dutch		steunmuur (supporting wall), keerwand, keermuur, bekledingsmuur. (various references)

French		mur soutènement, mur de soutènement. (various references)

German		Stützmauer (sustaining wall). (various references)

Greek		τοίχος αντιστήριξης. (various references)

Italian		muro di sostegno (supporting wall). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		土止め , 擁壁 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		どどめ (retaining, sheathing), ようへき. (various references)

Pig Latin		etainingray allway

Portuguese		muro de suporte. (various references)

Russian		подпорная стенка. (various references)

Spanish		muro de sostenimiento (berm), muro de contención (breast wall). (various references)

Swedish		stödmur. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Retaining Wall

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	crepidine, crepidinem, crepidinis, crepido, marginem. (various references)
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Anagrams: Retaining Wall

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-r-t-w"
	-3 letters: alienating, lateraling.
	-4 letters: allegiant, antialien, antiglare, argillite, entailing, galantine, genitalia, inwalling, lariating, lilangeni, renailing, retailing, retaining, tillering, triennial, willinger, wintering.
	-5 letters: aerating, agential, alerting, alginate, aliening, allanite, allergin, altering, anearing, antiarin, antiwear, argental, arginine, arillate, awaiting, gainlier, galleria, gantline, geranial, inertial, integral, internal, latening, learning, relating, relining, retiling, ringtail, tanglier, tinglier, trailing, training.
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