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barrier
English
Etymology
From Middle English barryer, barrere, barry?er, from Old French barriere (compare French barrière), from Old French barre (“bar”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?bæ?i.?(?)/
- (US, Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA(key): /?bæ?i.??/
- (US, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /?b??i.??/
- Rhymes: -æ?i?(?)
Noun
barrier (plural barriers)
- A structure that bars passage.
- The bus went through a railway barrier and was hit by a train.
- The bomber had passed through one checkpoint before blowing himself up at a second barrier.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- Even a small fee can be a barrier for some students.
- A boundary or limit.
- Few marathon runners break the three-hour time barrier.
- (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- (historical) The lists in a tournament.
- (historical, in the plural) A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hindrance
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
barrier (third-person singular simple present barriers, present participle barriering, simple past and past participle barriered)
- (transitive) To block or obstruct with a barrier.
- Synonym: bar
barrier From the web:
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obstacles
English
Pronunciation
Noun
obstacles
- plural of obstacle
Anagrams
- Casebolts
Catalan
Noun
obstacles
- plural of obstacle
French
Noun
obstacles m
- plural of obstacle
obstacles From the web:
- what obstacles have you overcome
- what obstacles did odysseus face
- what obstacles are in a spartan race
- what obstacles does the turtle encounter
- what obstacles faced supporters of desegregation
- what obstacles has odysseus faced
- what obstacles have you overcome in life
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