palisade
See also: Palisade
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) + -ade.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
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TranslationsEdit
long, strong stake with sharpened head
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wall of wooden stakes
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a line of cliffs
VerbEdit
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.
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French palissade.
NounEdit
palisade c (singular definite palisaden, plural indefinite palisader)
- palisade (stick)
- palisade (wall of sticks)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of palisade
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | palisade | palisaden | palisader | palisaderne |
genitive | palisades | palisadens | palisaders | palisadernes |