Meaning of Barrier | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A structure that bars passage.
2. A surname from French
3. A surname from French.
4. An obstacle or impediment.
5. A boundary or limit.
6. 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.
7. A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
8. The lists in a tournament.
   historical
9. A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
   historical, in-plural

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Even a small fee can be a barrier for some students.”

“America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

“Few marathon runners break the three-hour time barrier.”

“The downside of normalization is that it erects a defensive barrier between the real world and the perceived i.e. normalized world.”

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