What (who) is barrier - definition
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Security barrier; Barrier (disambiguation); The Barrier (film); The Barrier (film) (disambiguation); Barriers
barrier
n.
1) to erect, place, set up a barrier
2) to overcome, take a barrier (the horse took the barrier easily)
3) to break down; remove a barrier
4) the sonic, sound barrier (to break the sound barrier)
5) a crush (BE), police barrier
6) a cultural; language; racial barrier (to break a racial barrier)
7) a barrier between
8) a barrier to (a barrier to progress)
barrier
(barriers)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A barrier is something such as a rule, law, or policy that makes it difficult or impossible for something to happen or be achieved.
Duties and taxes are the most obvious barrier to free trade.
= obstacle
N-COUNT: oft N to/against/between n
2.
A barrier is a problem that prevents two people or groups from agreeing, communicating, or working with each other.
There is no reason why love shouldn't cross the age barrier...
When you get involved in sports and athletes, a lot of the racial barriers are broken down.
N-COUNT: oft supp N, N between pl-n
3.
A barrier is something such as a fence or wall that is put in place to prevent people from moving easily from one area to another.
The demonstrators broke through heavy police barriers...
As each woman reached the barrier one of the men glanced at her papers.
N-COUNT
4.
A barrier is an object or layer that physically prevents something from moving from one place to another.
...a severe storm, which destroyed a natural barrier between the house and the lake...
The packaging must provide an effective barrier to prevent contamination of the product.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
5.
You can refer to a particular number or amount as a barrier when you think it is significant, because it is difficult or unusual to go above it.
They are fearful that unemployment will soon break the barrier of three million...
N-SING: the N, with supp
6.
Barrier
·noun Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.
II. Barrier ·noun An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack.
III. Barrier ·noun A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd.
IV. Barrier ·noun A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.
V. Barrier ·noun A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an Enemy.
Wikipedia
Barrier
A barrier or barricade is a physical structure which blocks or impedes something.
Barrier may also refer to:
Pronunciation examples for barrier
1. barrier.
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2. barrier.
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3. barrier?
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4. barrier.
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5. barrier, a great barrier, hardly
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Examples of use of barrier
1. "You are breaking down the final barrier among people from around the world – the language barrier."
2. "There is a barrier on the ground, now a barrier on the water and tomorrow we will end up with barrier in the sky.
3. "That was a political barrier, and this is a security barrier," Tirza said.
4. Broke the barrier But Cathy Come Home broke through the barrier of being just more television.
5. The barrier – also known as the Israeli West Bank barrier – is sometimes a fence and sometimes a wall.