Wall vs. Partition — What's the Difference?

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

The act or process of dividing something into parts.

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.

The state of being so divided.

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

Something that divides or separates, as a lightweight wall dividing one room or cubicle from another.

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

A wall, septum, or other separating membrane in an organism.

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

A part or section into which something has been divided.

Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength

Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.

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

An expression of a positive integer as a sum of positive integers.

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

The decomposition of a set into a family of disjoint sets.

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

(Computers) A section of storage space on a hard disk.

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

(Law) Division of property, especially real property, between co-owners into equivalent, separately owned portions or shares.

To confine or seal behind a wall; immure

To divide into parts, pieces, or sections.

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

To divide or separate by means of a partition

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

To divide (a country) into separate, autonomous nations.

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

An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.

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

A part of something that has been divided.

A point of desperation.

(math) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.

A point of defeat or extinction.

The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.

An impediment to free movement.

A vertical structure that divides a room.

The butterfly Lasiommata megera.

That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.

A barrier.

A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

A barrier to vision.

(legal) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.

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

(computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.

A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.

(databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.

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

(set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).

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

(music) A musical score.

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

To divide something into parts, sections or shares.

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

To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.

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

To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.

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

The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.

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

That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, a compartment of a room, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions; cubicles with four-foot high partitions.

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

A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

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

The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.

(cycling) A very steep slope.

A score.

A spring of water.

To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.

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

To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house.

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

A vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)

To boil.

The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

To well, as water; spring.

(computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit

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

Divide into parts, pieces, or sections;

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

Separate or apportion into sections;

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