Wall vs. Dyke

Wallnoun

A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.

Wallnoun

A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.

Wallnoun

Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.

Wallnoun

A point of desperation.

Wallnoun

A point of defeat or extinction.

Wallnoun

An impediment to free movement.

Wallnoun

A type of butterfly (Lasiommata megera).

Wallnoun

A barrier.

Wallnoun

A barrier to vision.

Wallnoun

Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.

Wallnoun

A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.

Wallnoun

(auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.

Wallnoun

A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.

Wallnoun

(soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.

Wallnoun

(Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.

Wallnoun

A spring of water.

Wallverb

To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.

Wallverb

To boil.

Wallverb

To well, as water; spring.

Wallverb

To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).

Wallnoun

A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

Wallnoun

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.

Wallnoun

A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.

Wallnoun

An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.

Wallnoun

The side of a level or drift.

Wallverb

To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.

Wallverb

To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.

Wallverb

To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

Wallnoun

an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure;

Wallnoun

an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;

Wallnoun

anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect;

Wallnoun

a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden);

Wallnoun

(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure;

Wallnoun

a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)

Wallnoun

a layer of material that encloses space;

Wallnoun

a difficult or awkward situation;

Wallverb

surround with a wall in order to fortify

Wall

A wall is a structure and a surface that defines an area; carries a load; provides security, shelter, or soundproofing; or, is decorative.

Dykenoun

A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.

Dykenoun

(UK) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.

Dykenoun

Any navigable watercourse.

Dykenoun

Any watercourse.

Dykenoun

Any small body of water.

Dykenoun

(obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.

Dykenoun

A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.

Dykenoun

(UK) An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.

Dykenoun

(obsolete) A city wall.

Dykenoun

A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.

Dykenoun

Any fence or hedge.

Dykenoun

(UK) An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.

Dykenoun

Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.

Dykenoun

(UK) A beaver's dam.

Dykenoun

A jetty; a pier.

Dykenoun

(UK) A raised causeway.

Dykenoun

A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.

Dykenoun

A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.

Dykenoun

A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or macho traits or behavior.

Dykeverb

To dig, particularly to create a ditch.

Dykeverb

To surround with a ditch, to entrench.

Dykeverb

To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.

Dykeverb

To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.

Dykeverb

To scour a watercourse.

Dykeverb

To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.

Dykenoun

See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

Dykenoun

offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

Dykenoun

a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

Dykeverb

enclose with a dike;