Palisade vs. Wall — What's the Difference?

A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a fence or defensive wall made from iron or wooden stakes, or tree trunks, and used as a defensive structure or enclosure. Palisades can form a stockade.

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

A fence of pales forming a defense barrier or fortification.

An upright structure of masonry, wood, plaster, or other building material serving to enclose, divide, or protect an area, especially a vertical construction forming an inner partition or exterior siding of a building.

One of the pales of such a fence.

Often walls A continuous structure of masonry or other material forming a rampart and built for defensive purposes.

Palisades A line of lofty steep cliffs, usually along a river.

A structure of stonework, concrete, or other material built to retain a flow of water.

To equip or fortify with palisades or a palisade.

Something resembling a wall in appearance, function, or construction, as the exterior surface of a body organ or part

A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.

Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength

(military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.

An extreme or desperate condition or position, such as defeat or ruin

A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.

(Sports) The vertical surface of an ocean wave in surfing.

(biology) An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.

To enclose, surround, or fortify with or as if with a wall

To equip with a palisade.

To divide or separate with or as if with a wall. Often used with off

A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.

To confine or seal behind a wall; immure

Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.

To block or close (an opening or passage, for example) with or as if with a wall.

A line of bold cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; - usually in pl., and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson.

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

To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

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

Fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground

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

Surround with a wall in order to fortify

A point of desperation.

A point of defeat or extinction.

An impediment to free movement.

The butterfly Lasiommata megera.

A barrier.

A barrier to vision.

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

A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.

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

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

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

(roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.

(mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.

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

(role playing games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.

The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.

(historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian.

(cycling) A very steep slope.

A spring of water.

(nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.

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

To boil.

To well, as water; spring.

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

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

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.

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

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

The side of a level or drift.

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

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

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

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

An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;

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

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

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

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

A layer of material that encloses space;

A difficult or awkward situation;

Surround with a wall in order to fortify