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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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septum
English
Alternative forms
- saeptum, sæptum (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin s?ptum (“enclosure, wall, fence”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?p.t?m/
- Rhymes: -?pt?m
Noun
septum (plural septa)
- (biology) A wall separating two cavities; a partition.
- Synonym: dissepiment
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of nasal septum: the cartilaginous center wall of the nose separating the two nostrils.
- (anatomy) Either of the two walls that separate the atria or ventricles of the heart into left and right chambers.
- (botany) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
- (mycology) A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus.
- (zoology) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
- (zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers.
- (zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of septum ring or septum piercing.
Hyponyms
- nasal septum
- interventricular septum
- septum pellucidum
Derived terms
Translations
References
- “septum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “septum”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Anagrams
- spetum
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?se?p.tum/, [?s?e?pt????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?sep.tum/, [?s?pt?um]
Noun
s?ptum n (genitive s?pt?); second declension
- Alternative form of saeptum.
Descendants
? English: septum
septum From the web:
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- what septum ring should i get
- what septum piercing means
- what septum is the bundle of his located in
- what's septum piercing
- what's septum surgery
- what's septum ring
- what septum in a heart
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