different between obstacle vs foreset

English

Etymology

From Middle English obstacle, from Old French obstacle, from Latin obst?culum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bst?kl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bst?kl?/
• Hyphenation: ob?sta?cle

Noun

obstacle (plural obstacles)

1. Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

   A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.

Synonyms

• impediment
• hindrance
• hurdle
• barrier
• complication
• snag
• See also Thesaurus:hindrance

Translations

Anagrams

• Casebolt, costable

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin obst?culum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ops?ta.kl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ups?ta.kl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ops?ta.kle/

Noun

obstacle m (plural obstacles)

1. obstacle

Derived terms

• obstaculitzar

Further reading

• “obstacle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obstaculum, from obst?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p.stakl/

Noun

obstacle m (plural obstacles)

1. obstacle

Derived terms

• course d'obstacles
• faire obstacle
• saut d'obstacles

Further reading

• “obstacle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• fore-set

Etymology

From Middle English foresetten, from Old English f?resettan (“to place before, shut in, propose, prefer, precede”), equivalent to fore- +? set. Cognate with Dutch voorzetten (“to put in front”), German vorsetzen (“to put in front, offer, serve up”), Swedish föresätta (“to put before”).

Verb

foreset (third-person singular simple present foresets, present participle foresetting, simple past and past participle foreset)

1. (transitive) To set before or in front of; bar; block; impede.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To ordain; assign; allot in advance.
3. To propose, suggest.

Derived terms

• foresetting

Noun

foreset (plural foresets)

1. An obstacle; hindrance.
2. That which is set ahead or before; proposal, suggestion.
3. (geology) The deposition of sediment by the turbidity currents above the reservoir water level.

   Most deltas contain three different types of deposits: foreset, topset and bottomset beds. — Fluvial Landforms

Derived terms

• (geology): foreset bed

Adjective

foreset (comparative more foreset, superlative most foreset)

1. Set in fore or front part; placed ahead.

Anagrams

• foreste