different between picket vs palisade
picket
English
Etymology
From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?p?k?t/
- Rhymes: -?k?t
- Hyphenation: pick?et
Noun
picket (countable and uncountable, plural pickets)
- A stake driven into the ground.
- (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
- So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
- (sometimes figuratively) A sentry.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
- (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
Derived terms
- picket line
- picket pin
- picket rope
Translations
Verb
picket (third-person singular simple present pickets, present participle picketing, simple past and past participle picketed)
- (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- to picket a horse
- (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Derived terms
- picketing (noun)
- unpicketed
German
Pronunciation
Verb
picket
- second-person plural subjunctive I of picken
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palisade
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *p?l?cea, from Latin p?lus (“stake”) +? -ade.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e?d
Noun
palisade (plural palisades)
- A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
- (military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 261]:
- I realize how universal the desire to injure your fellow man is. … Only hear the government of laws and lawyers puts a palisade up. They can injure you a lot, make your life hideous, but they can't actually do you in.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 261]:
- A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
- (biology) An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.
Derived terms
- palisade worm
- palisadic
Related terms
Translations
Verb
palisade (third-person singular simple present palisades, present participle palisading, simple past and past participle palisaded)
- (transitive, usually in the passive) To equip with a palisade.
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French palissade.
Noun
palisade c (singular definite palisaden, plural indefinite palisader)
- palisade (stick)
- palisade (wall of sticks)
Declension
References
- “palisade” in Den Danske Ordbog
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