Rampart vs. Wall — What's the Difference?

A fortification consisting of an embankment, often with a parapet built on top.

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

A means of protection or defense; a bulwark.

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.

To fortify or surround with a rampart.

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

A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.

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

A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.

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

That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.

Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength

A steep bank of a river or gorge.

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

To defend with a rampart; fortify or surround with a rampart.

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

That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.

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

A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.

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

To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.

To confine or seal behind a wall; immure

An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;

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

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

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

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

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