Mural

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  • noun. A very large image, such as a painting or enlarged photograph, applied directly to a wall or ceiling.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or resembling a wall.
  • adjective. Painted on or applied to a wall.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to a wall.
  • Placed on a wall; of plants, trained on a wall.
  • Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep: as, a mural structure or formation.
  • In pathology, noting vesical calculi when rugous and covered with tubercles. Such calculi are composed of oxalate of lime, and are also called mulberry calculi.
  • noun. A wall.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall.
  • adjective. Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
  • adjective. a graduated circle, in the plane of the meridian, attached permanently to a perpendicular wall; -- used for measuring arcs of the meridian. See Circle, n., 3.
  • adjective. a golden crown, or circle of gold indented so as to resemble a battlement, bestowed on him who first mounted the wall of a besieged place, and there lodged a standard.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
  • adjective. Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a painting that is applied to a wall surface
  • adjective. of or relating to walls
  • Word Usage
    "That and the absence of text tells me that the mural is art, not an advertisement, because it is a picture of fish, not of the gear used to catch fish."
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    painting  picture  
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    fresco  
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    Durrell  Ural  intramural  neural  plural  
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