different between wall vs preserve

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /w?l/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /w?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle English wall, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz, *wall? (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English w?g, w?h (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw. Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.

Noun

wall (plural walls)

1. A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
2. A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
3. Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
4. A point of desperation.
5. A point of defeat or extinction.
6. An impediment to free movement.

7. A type of butterfly (Lasiommata megera).
8. (often in combination) A barrier.

9. A barrier to vision.
10. Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.

11. (anatomy, zoology, botany) A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
12. (auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.

    Synonym: chandelier

13. (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.

    Antonym: sieve

14. (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
15. (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.

Synonyms

• (rampart): rampart
• (fictional bidder at an auction): chandelier
• (personal notice board): profile

Meronyms

• (rampart): terreplein (level walkway); parapet, crenellation (minor secondary wall protecting the terreplein); banquette (area elevated above the terreplein for use by defenders)

Translations

Verb

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

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

   He walled the study with books.

Derived terms

• wall in
• wall off
• wall up

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English wallen, from Old English weallan (“to bubble, boil”), from Proto-Germanic *wall?n?, *well?n? (“to fount, stream, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel?n-, *wel?m- (“wave”). Cognate with Middle Dutch wallen (“to boil, bubble”), Dutch wellen (“to weld”), German wellen (“to wave, warp”), Danish vælde (“to overwhelm”), Swedish välla (“to gush, weld”). See also well.

Verb

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

1. To boil.
2. To well, as water; spring.

Related terms

• well
• overwhelm

Etymology 3

From Middle English walle, from Old English *wealla, *weall (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wallô, *wallaz (“well, spring”). See above. Cognate with Old Frisian walla (“spring”), Old English wiell (“well”).

Noun

wall (plural walls)

1. (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

wall (plural walls)

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

Verb

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

1. (transitive, nautical) To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).

Etymology 5

Interjection

wall

1. (US) Pronunciation spelling of well.
   • 1858, The New Priest in Conception Bay by Robert Lowell [2]

     Wall, they spoke up, 'n' says to her, s'd they, "Why, look a-here, aunty, Wus't his skin, 't was rock?" so s's she, "I guess not." (Well, they spoke up and says to her, said they, "Why look a-here, aunty, was it his skin that was rock [referring to the Apostle Peter]?" So says she, "I guess not.")

   • 1988, Herbert M. Sutherland, Tall Tales of the Devil's Apron, The Overmountain Press ?ISBN, page 97

     Wall, be that as it may, ol' Hosshead was a purty good citizen in his day, an' he shore did make Juneybell toe the mark.

Anagrams

• lawl

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Verb

wall

1. singular imperative of wallen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of wallen

Middle English

Noun

wall

1. Alternative form of wale (“selection, preference”)

Adjective

wall

1. Alternative form of wale

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?l/, /wal/

Noun

wall (plural walls)

1. A well. (clarification of this definition is needed)

English

Alternative forms

• præserve (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English preserven, from Old French preserver, from Medieval Latin pr?serv?re (“keep, preserve”), from Late Latin praeserv?re (“guard beforehand”), from prae (“before”, adverb) +? serv?re (“maintain, keep”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???z??v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???z?v/
• Rhymes: -??(?)v

Noun

preserve (countable and uncountable, plural preserves)

1. A sweet spread made of any of a variety of fruits.
2. A reservation, a nature preserve.
   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     Suppose Shakespeare had been knocked on the head some dark night in Sir Thomas Lucy's preserves, the world would have wagged on better or worse, the pitcher gone to the well, the scythe to the corn, and the student to his book; and no one been any the wiser of the loss.

3. An activity with restricted access.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 86:

     No one can argue with that—neither the Army Commander nor Zhilinsky nor even the Grand Duke. That is the Emperor’s preserve. The Emperor says France must be saved. We can only do his bidding.

Usage notes

More often used in the plural, as strawberry preserves, but the form without the -s can also be used as the plural form, or to refer to a single type.

Translations

Synonyms

• jam
• jelly
• marmalade

See also

• preserver

Verb

preserve (third-person singular simple present preserves, present participle preserving, simple past and past participle preserved)

1. To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
2. To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.

   to preserve peaches or grapes

3. To maintain throughout; to keep intact.

   to preserve appearances; to preserve silence

Translations

References

Anagrams

• persever, perverse

Portuguese

Verb

preserve

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of preservar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of preservar
3. first-person singular imperative of preservar
4. third-person singular imperative of preservar

Spanish

Verb

preserve

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of preservar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of preservar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of preservar.