Wall vs. Dyke

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

Variant of dike1.

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.

Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.

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

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

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

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

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

(dialect) Any navigable watercourse.

Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength

(dialect) Any watercourse.

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

(dialect) Any small body of water.

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

(obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.

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

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

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

An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.

To confine or seal behind a wall; immure

(obsolete) A city wall.

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

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

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

(dialect) Any fence or hedge.

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

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

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

(figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.

A point of desperation.

A beaver's dam.

A point of defeat or extinction.

(dialect) A jetty; a pier.

An impediment to free movement.

A raised causeway.

The butterfly Lasiommata megera.

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

A barrier.

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

A barrier to vision.

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

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

A non-heterosexual woman.

A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.

To dig, particularly to create a ditch.

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

To surround with a ditch, to entrench.

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

To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.

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

To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.

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

To scour a watercourse.

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

To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.

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

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

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

offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

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

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

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

enclose with a dike;

(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