Definition of barrier in English:

barrier

noun ˈbarɪəˈbɛriər

1A fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access.
屏障；障碍物
the mountain barrier between Norway and Sweden
Example sentencesExamples
- The Oceanlab team discovered that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a barrier to the movement of deep-sea fish between the east and west Atlantic Ocean.
- They were in talks with the council to replace a wooden fence with a barrier but were told last week it would never happen.
- Summit delegates will hold their air conditioned talks there behind police lines, wire fences, concrete barriers and the sound of percussion grenades fired at protesters.
- However, he told council he would like to protect the fence with barriers, to prevent vehicle operators from accidentally running into the fence.
- The security perimeter around the missions of the UK, the US and Turkey was widened and new fences and barriers were installed.
- Roads passing the hotel will be blocked, local people issued with photographic identity cards and a five-mile steel fence with a second barrier inside the grounds will cordon off the hotel itself.
- Over the past year their government has set about establishing that separation unilaterally by the construction of a serpentine course of fences, barriers, walls.
- The only barrier is to the movement of cars onto the streetcar tracks.
- It's one thing to put up a security fence, a barrier that is clearly on your property, the dividing line, so to speak, in order to protect yourself.
- As helicopters buzzed overhead, army engineers erected concrete barriers and razor wire fences in the fields off Drumcree Road.
- The mountains provided a natural barrier to allow the settlers to build their own eco-system.
- The tahsildar had to intervene and put up a barrier blocking the movement of people and vehicles.
- Special thanks also to Noel Kenny and Cecil Carter for the sound system, Andrew Broderick for organising the power and to Rent a Fence for providing the barriers.
- A uniformed cop stands next to the boy and both are enclosed in a space fenced off with four-foot-high barriers.
- In the western world, the sea has come to be regarded as a barrier, restricting our movements.
- The buried debris then acts as a physical barrier to the movement of water upward and downward.
- The only real injury that I suffered was when I wrenched my knee jumping down from the barrier fence getting out of the ring.
- A bulldozer blade would be similarly effective today, for use in clearing rabble and barriers during urban movement.
- As security fences and barriers went up, manholes were welded shut and hotels and offices swept by teams of officials.
- They weren't there to keep me away from, Heaven forbid, a Democrat or a protester; those folks were kept safely behind rings of fences and concrete barriers.
Synonyms
fence, railing, barricade, hurdle, bar, blockade, roadblock
fencing
1. 1.1British A gate at a car park or railway station that controls access by being raised or lowered.
  〈英〉（车库门口或火车站口控制进入的）升降栏
  Example sentencesExamples
  I had been to the supermarket, which has a car-park incorporating barriers and tickets.
  Automatic barriers at the village railway station were controlled by rail staff during the emergency.
  The boss of a supermarket is to put barriers across its car park to keep out car cruisers who use it as a meeting place.
  The extra parking revenue will help pay for a new pay station system instead of putting coins in the barrier to leave the car park.
  At other times, the barriers will control access and there will be a Euro2-exit charge.
  An investigation has been launched after a minibus full of passengers went through the barriers at Manningtree railway station - just seconds before a train was due to arrive.
  Road-users were alarmed when the Drypool Bridge started to open without the usual warning signals or barriers being lowered
  The police also raised the barriers at the Riom tollgate in anticipation of the satanic Vel Satis making a break for freedom.
  Many train stations now have automatic barriers that only allow ticket holders onto the platform.
  He leapt over station barriers and jumped on the tube.
  They were finally shifted after the council dug trenches and police escorted the caravans and vehicles off the car park, installing barriers in their wake.
  Traffic was controlled and barriers put up by the council to keep pedestrians safe and form a protected walkway on the road.
  Think Pret a Manger; think bendy buses; think automatic ticket barriers at Charing Cross station.
  Nurses at Wallsend Aged Care Facility have voted to take industrial action if work commences to build barriers or gates to car parking areas.
  She also says that barrier controlled car parks have to be manned at all times so staff can let disabled people out.
  Ticket barriers at stations slow down passenger flow, but the determined non-payer can still vault over them, or sneak through behind a legitimate ticketholder.
  The train is late and there begins a tiny shuffling, like a re-focusing of the group, as we all look up the tracks where the barriers are still raised and the individual traffic is crossing.
  You see, they've installed these ticket barriers at Oxford station and today was supposed to be the day upon which these came into use.
  Instead he panicked, jumping over the station's ticket barriers and running down to a train where he was shot.
  Last February's disaster exposed the inadequacy of barriers dividing road and railway.
  Synonyms
  wicket, wicket gate, lychgate, five-barred gate, turnstile
2. 1.2 A circumstance or obstacle that keeps people or things apart or prevents communication or progress.
  〈喻〉障碍；隔阂
  a language barrier
  语言障碍。
  the cultural barriers to economic growth
  妨碍经济发展的文化隔阂。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But the remaining barriers to completely liberalized trade lend themselves to be very focused defensive positions.
  The large food retailers are going global, and as barriers to trade come down, the economics ate determining where the investment and trade take place.
  Ironically, those people who make the greatest demands on the healthcare system are those facing the greatest barriers to using online communication tools.
  How far and how quickly to tear down barriers to world farm trade was a key topic of the discussions, which showed countries were still widely split on the issue.
  Sometimes even the language barrier cannot keep hypocrites apart.
  A helpful part of this section is an explicit description outlining how the program overcame obstacles and barriers to implementation.
  The Europeans in this regards are the worst culprits, with more and more useless regulation being used as barriers to free trade.
  Through lobbying government, educational workshops, videos and programs, they are working together to remove barriers to women in trades.
  The Department of Social Development is mandated with break down barriers to equality of opportunity for Canadians.
  Thai TV, apart from the language barrier, has limited international appeal for these kinds of shows.
  They are warm, but the language barrier keeps us apart.
  But the 1970s also witnessed attempts to break down the racial barriers to economic opportunity and home ownership.
  For decades, the women's movement has challenged the barriers created in part by the dichotomies of female vs. male.
  The language barrier prevented direct access to the sources of supply of Chinese goods and to their final customers.
  Though volunteers expected all kinds of difficulties the language barrier broke all of Shen's expectations, despite having a good command of English.
  As for the other subject, elimination of trade barriers to environmental goods and services will facilitate both the expansion of trade and protection of the environment.
  What are the barriers to effective communication?
  It would also be informative to track all hospital deaths and discover the obstacles and barriers to obtaining an autopsy.
  Patients with communication barriers (eg, language, hearing, speech) should be provided with an interpreter.
  With visionaries like this leading the charge, it's hard to conceive of any barriers a hip-hop movement can't break.
  Synonyms
  obstacle, obstruction, hurdle, stumbling block, bar, block, impediment, hindrance
  snag, catch, drawback, hitch, handicap, deterrent, complication, difficulty, problem, disadvantage, baulk, curb, check, stop
  informal fly in the ointment, hiccup, facer
  British informal spanner in the works
  North American informal monkey wrench in the works
  literary trammel
  archaic cumber

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a palisade or fortification defending an entrance): from Old French barriere, of unknown origin; related to barre.

bar from Middle English:
There are few more functional words than bar. It gives us bars of soap and chocolate, bars serving drinks, bars that we can put criminals behind, and in Britain members of the Bar who can help put them there. The word entered English from French in the early Middle Ages, but beyond that its history is unknown. Its earliest use was for fastening a gate or door. People used it for various kinds of barrier (Late Middle English), a related word. In a court a bar marked off the area around the judge's seat, where prisoners were brought to be charged, hence prisoner at the bar. At the Inns of Court, where lawyers were trained in England, a bar separated students from those qualified, and a student was ‘called to the bar’ to become a fully fledged barrister (Late Middle English). From this the Bar came to mean the whole body of barristers, or the barrister's profession, as early as the 16th century. At this time a bar was also a barrier or counter from which drink was served.
From barring doors and barring a person's way, it took a small step for bar to mean ‘to prohibit’, as in no holds barred (mid 20th century), and ‘except’: bar none (early 18th century) means ‘without exception’.

Rhymes

carrier, farrier, harrier, tarrier

Definition of barrier in US English:

barrier

nounˈbɛriərˈberēər

1A fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access.
屏障；障碍物
Example sentencesExamples
- A uniformed cop stands next to the boy and both are enclosed in a space fenced off with four-foot-high barriers.
- It's one thing to put up a security fence, a barrier that is clearly on your property, the dividing line, so to speak, in order to protect yourself.
- As helicopters buzzed overhead, army engineers erected concrete barriers and razor wire fences in the fields off Drumcree Road.
- They were in talks with the council to replace a wooden fence with a barrier but were told last week it would never happen.
- Summit delegates will hold their air conditioned talks there behind police lines, wire fences, concrete barriers and the sound of percussion grenades fired at protesters.
- Special thanks also to Noel Kenny and Cecil Carter for the sound system, Andrew Broderick for organising the power and to Rent a Fence for providing the barriers.
- The security perimeter around the missions of the UK, the US and Turkey was widened and new fences and barriers were installed.
- In the western world, the sea has come to be regarded as a barrier, restricting our movements.
- As security fences and barriers went up, manholes were welded shut and hotels and offices swept by teams of officials.
- However, he told council he would like to protect the fence with barriers, to prevent vehicle operators from accidentally running into the fence.
- The only barrier is to the movement of cars onto the streetcar tracks.
- The buried debris then acts as a physical barrier to the movement of water upward and downward.
- The tahsildar had to intervene and put up a barrier blocking the movement of people and vehicles.
- The mountains provided a natural barrier to allow the settlers to build their own eco-system.
- A bulldozer blade would be similarly effective today, for use in clearing rabble and barriers during urban movement.
- The only real injury that I suffered was when I wrenched my knee jumping down from the barrier fence getting out of the ring.
- Over the past year their government has set about establishing that separation unilaterally by the construction of a serpentine course of fences, barriers, walls.
- The Oceanlab team discovered that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a barrier to the movement of deep-sea fish between the east and west Atlantic Ocean.
- Roads passing the hotel will be blocked, local people issued with photographic identity cards and a five-mile steel fence with a second barrier inside the grounds will cordon off the hotel itself.
- They weren't there to keep me away from, Heaven forbid, a Democrat or a protester; those folks were kept safely behind rings of fences and concrete barriers.
Synonyms
fence, railing, barricade, hurdle, bar, blockade, roadblock
1. 1.1 The starting gate of a racecourse.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The picador is seen drawn up at a short distance from the barrier.
  Starting wide from barrier 10 Gladwin wasted no time in challenging by charging to the lead beside Compass Boy.
  Starting out of barrier two He's Tough Enough led from start to finish and went to the line a length in front of the well supported Al Tayar at 7 / 4.
2. 1.2British A gate at a parking lot that controls access by being raised or lowered.
  〈英〉（车库门口或火车站口控制进入的）升降栏
  Example sentencesExamples
  At other times, the barriers will control access and there will be a Euro2-exit charge.
  Road-users were alarmed when the Drypool Bridge started to open without the usual warning signals or barriers being lowered
  They were finally shifted after the council dug trenches and police escorted the caravans and vehicles off the car park, installing barriers in their wake.
  The boss of a supermarket is to put barriers across its car park to keep out car cruisers who use it as a meeting place.
  He leapt over station barriers and jumped on the tube.
  An investigation has been launched after a minibus full of passengers went through the barriers at Manningtree railway station - just seconds before a train was due to arrive.
  Many train stations now have automatic barriers that only allow ticket holders onto the platform.
  Nurses at Wallsend Aged Care Facility have voted to take industrial action if work commences to build barriers or gates to car parking areas.
  She also says that barrier controlled car parks have to be manned at all times so staff can let disabled people out.
  You see, they've installed these ticket barriers at Oxford station and today was supposed to be the day upon which these came into use.
  Automatic barriers at the village railway station were controlled by rail staff during the emergency.
  I had been to the supermarket, which has a car-park incorporating barriers and tickets.
  The train is late and there begins a tiny shuffling, like a re-focusing of the group, as we all look up the tracks where the barriers are still raised and the individual traffic is crossing.
  Instead he panicked, jumping over the station's ticket barriers and running down to a train where he was shot.
  Think Pret a Manger; think bendy buses; think automatic ticket barriers at Charing Cross station.
  The police also raised the barriers at the Riom tollgate in anticipation of the satanic Vel Satis making a break for freedom.
  Ticket barriers at stations slow down passenger flow, but the determined non-payer can still vault over them, or sneak through behind a legitimate ticketholder.
  Traffic was controlled and barriers put up by the council to keep pedestrians safe and form a protected walkway on the road.
  The extra parking revenue will help pay for a new pay station system instead of putting coins in the barrier to leave the car park.
  Last February's disaster exposed the inadequacy of barriers dividing road and railway.
  Synonyms
  wicket, wicket gate, lychgate, five-barred gate, turnstile
3. 1.3 A circumstance or obstacle that keeps people or things apart or prevents communication or progress.
  〈喻〉障碍；隔阂
  a language barrier
  语言障碍。
  the cultural barriers to economic growth
  妨碍经济发展的文化隔阂。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It would also be informative to track all hospital deaths and discover the obstacles and barriers to obtaining an autopsy.
  The Department of Social Development is mandated with break down barriers to equality of opportunity for Canadians.
  With visionaries like this leading the charge, it's hard to conceive of any barriers a hip-hop movement can't break.
  Though volunteers expected all kinds of difficulties the language barrier broke all of Shen's expectations, despite having a good command of English.
  The Europeans in this regards are the worst culprits, with more and more useless regulation being used as barriers to free trade.
  For decades, the women's movement has challenged the barriers created in part by the dichotomies of female vs. male.
  Thai TV, apart from the language barrier, has limited international appeal for these kinds of shows.
  The large food retailers are going global, and as barriers to trade come down, the economics ate determining where the investment and trade take place.
  As for the other subject, elimination of trade barriers to environmental goods and services will facilitate both the expansion of trade and protection of the environment.
  But the remaining barriers to completely liberalized trade lend themselves to be very focused defensive positions.
  Sometimes even the language barrier cannot keep hypocrites apart.
  How far and how quickly to tear down barriers to world farm trade was a key topic of the discussions, which showed countries were still widely split on the issue.
  Patients with communication barriers (eg, language, hearing, speech) should be provided with an interpreter.
  What are the barriers to effective communication?
  They are warm, but the language barrier keeps us apart.
  But the 1970s also witnessed attempts to break down the racial barriers to economic opportunity and home ownership.
  A helpful part of this section is an explicit description outlining how the program overcame obstacles and barriers to implementation.
  The language barrier prevented direct access to the sources of supply of Chinese goods and to their final customers.
  Ironically, those people who make the greatest demands on the healthcare system are those facing the greatest barriers to using online communication tools.
  Through lobbying government, educational workshops, videos and programs, they are working together to remove barriers to women in trades.
  Synonyms
  obstacle, obstruction, hurdle, stumbling block, bar, block, impediment, hindrance
4. 1.4 A long narrow island lying parallel and close to the mainland, protecting the mainland from erosion and storms.
  Example sentencesExamples
  But even out here on the barrier islands we'll have at least 10 feet of storm surge.
  When the eye gets up to the coastline and the winds come from the south, that's when that storm surge is really going to push over the barrier islands and up into the bay.
  There are a lot of areas that present real challenges for us, because we not only have people living in the mainland but in barrier islands around our city.
  Bob Franken reports on the damage on Sanibel, one of the barrier islands to first feel the brunt of that storm.
  New Orleans allowed development for decades that actually weakened the barrier islands, encouraged erosion.
  It peeled the roofs off buildings, toppled light poles, and flooded some bridges from the mainland to the Atlantic coast's barrier islands.
  The outer-bounding coastline is generally a narrow strip of land or a chain of barrier islands.
  Roofs were torn off, stop lights dangled precariously and bridges from the mainland to barrier islands were flooded.
  Morton said the assessment shows that coastal Louisiana is most vulnerable to shoreline erosion along with barriers islands in Texas.
  This is, after all, a barrier island so it can be very vulnerable to storms.
  Bar-built Estuaries form when a shallow lagoon or bay is protected from the ocean by a sand bar or barrier island.
  Not surprisingly, the barrier islands protecting this region have deteriorated to an alarming extent and are in need of restoration.
  This is how the barrier island main street near the zoo looked as the storm rolled in.
  In these areas, common cider pairs, flocks, and broods were concentrated close to barrier islands.
  It is a very fragile piece of barrier island, very close to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
  One, the people here in Galveston, this narrow strip of barrier island, are taking the evacuation notice very seriously.
  A lot of them saying they felt they were somewhat protected because there are barrier islands between them and the Gulf.

Phrases

break the barrier

Pass or exceed a significant level or amount.
the Tokyo stock exchange reopened to break the 5000-yen barrier
Example sentencesExamples
- Takahashi became the first woman to break the barrier of two hours and 20 minutes in the Berlin marathon, shattering the existing world best by nearly a minute with a time of 2: 19.46.
- The book has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 17 weeks and is set to break the barrier of a million hardback copies sold.
- ‘It is relatively easy to run inside 14 seconds, but very difficult to break the barrier of 13 seconds,’ he said.
- Patrick talks about the weather, anything to break the barrier that blocks affection.
- Even lighter skinned Black people were advantaged over the darker skinned Black persons, but could not break the barrier into the arena of full inclusion based upon merit.
- More players like that showing up on NBA teams gave young international players more confidence they could break the barrier.
- However, a young Oxford medical student, Roger Bannister, was not deterred from his goal to be the first to break the barrier.
- Unable to break the barrier and make the majors, Savage switched gears and decided to give the family business a try.
- These are tears that break the barrier of the limitations of my own ego and the smallness of my life.
- The point is whether we can break the barrier after the great attempt,’ he says.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a palisade or fortification defending an entrance): from Old French barriere, of unknown origin; related to barre.

单词	barrier
释义	Definition of barrier in English: barrier noun ˈbarɪəˈbɛriər 1A fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access. 屏障；障碍物 the mountain barrier between Norway and Sweden Example sentencesExamples The Oceanlab team discovered that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a barrier to the movement of deep-sea fish between the east and west Atlantic Ocean. They were in talks with the council to replace a wooden fence with a barrier but were told last week it would never happen. Summit delegates will hold their air conditioned talks there behind police lines, wire fences, concrete barriers and the sound of percussion grenades fired at protesters. However, he told council he would like to protect the fence with barriers, to prevent vehicle operators from accidentally running into the fence. The security perimeter around the missions of the UK, the US and Turkey was widened and new fences and barriers were installed. Roads passing the hotel will be blocked, local people issued with photographic identity cards and a five-mile steel fence with a second barrier inside the grounds will cordon off the hotel itself. Over the past year their government has set about establishing that separation unilaterally by the construction of a serpentine course of fences, barriers, walls. The only barrier is to the movement of cars onto the streetcar tracks. It's one thing to put up a security fence, a barrier that is clearly on your property, the dividing line, so to speak, in order to protect yourself. As helicopters buzzed overhead, army engineers erected concrete barriers and razor wire fences in the fields off Drumcree Road. The mountains provided a natural barrier to allow the settlers to build their own eco-system. The tahsildar had to intervene and put up a barrier blocking the movement of people and vehicles. Special thanks also to Noel Kenny and Cecil Carter for the sound system, Andrew Broderick for organising the power and to Rent a Fence for providing the barriers. A uniformed cop stands next to the boy and both are enclosed in a space fenced off with four-foot-high barriers. In the western world, the sea has come to be regarded as a barrier, restricting our movements. The buried debris then acts as a physical barrier to the movement of water upward and downward. The only real injury that I suffered was when I wrenched my knee jumping down from the barrier fence getting out of the ring. A bulldozer blade would be similarly effective today, for use in clearing rabble and barriers during urban movement. As security fences and barriers went up, manholes were welded shut and hotels and offices swept by teams of officials. They weren't there to keep me away from, Heaven forbid, a Democrat or a protester; those folks were kept safely behind rings of fences and concrete barriers. Synonyms fence, railing, barricade, hurdle, bar, blockade, roadblock fencing 1.1British A gate at a car park or railway station that controls access by being raised or lowered. 〈英〉（车库门口或火车站口控制进入的）升降栏 Example sentencesExamples I had been to the supermarket, which has a car-park incorporating barriers and tickets. Automatic barriers at the village railway station were controlled by rail staff during the emergency. The boss of a supermarket is to put barriers across its car park to keep out car cruisers who use it as a meeting place. The extra parking revenue will help pay for a new pay station system instead of putting coins in the barrier to leave the car park. At other times, the barriers will control access and there will be a Euro2-exit charge. An investigation has been launched after a minibus full of passengers went through the barriers at Manningtree railway station - just seconds before a train was due to arrive. Road-users were alarmed when the Drypool Bridge started to open without the usual warning signals or barriers being lowered The police also raised the barriers at the Riom tollgate in anticipation of the satanic Vel Satis making a break for freedom. Many train stations now have automatic barriers that only allow ticket holders onto the platform. He leapt over station barriers and jumped on the tube. They were finally shifted after the council dug trenches and police escorted the caravans and vehicles off the car park, installing barriers in their wake. Traffic was controlled and barriers put up by the council to keep pedestrians safe and form a protected walkway on the road. Think Pret a Manger; think bendy buses; think automatic ticket barriers at Charing Cross station. Nurses at Wallsend Aged Care Facility have voted to take industrial action if work commences to build barriers or gates to car parking areas. She also says that barrier controlled car parks have to be manned at all times so staff can let disabled people out. Ticket barriers at stations slow down passenger flow, but the determined non-payer can still vault over them, or sneak through behind a legitimate ticketholder. The train is late and there begins a tiny shuffling, like a re-focusing of the group, as we all look up the tracks where the barriers are still raised and the individual traffic is crossing. You see, they've installed these ticket barriers at Oxford station and today was supposed to be the day upon which these came into use. Instead he panicked, jumping over the station's ticket barriers and running down to a train where he was shot. Last February's disaster exposed the inadequacy of barriers dividing road and railway. Synonyms wicket, wicket gate, lychgate, five-barred gate, turnstile 1.2 A circumstance or obstacle that keeps people or things apart or prevents communication or progress. 〈喻〉障碍；隔阂 a language barrier 语言障碍。 the cultural barriers to economic growth 妨碍经济发展的文化隔阂。 Example sentencesExamples But the remaining barriers to completely liberalized trade lend themselves to be very focused defensive positions. The large food retailers are going global, and as barriers to trade come down, the economics ate determining where the investment and trade take place. Ironically, those people who make the greatest demands on the healthcare system are those facing the greatest barriers to using online communication tools. How far and how quickly to tear down barriers to world farm trade was a key topic of the discussions, which showed countries were still widely split on the issue. Sometimes even the language barrier cannot keep hypocrites apart. A helpful part of this section is an explicit description outlining how the program overcame obstacles and barriers to implementation. The Europeans in this regards are the worst culprits, with more and more useless regulation being used as barriers to free trade. Through lobbying government, educational workshops, videos and programs, they are working together to remove barriers to women in trades. The Department of Social Development is mandated with break down barriers to equality of opportunity for Canadians. Thai TV, apart from the language barrier, has limited international appeal for these kinds of shows. They are warm, but the language barrier keeps us apart. But the 1970s also witnessed attempts to break down the racial barriers to economic opportunity and home ownership. For decades, the women's movement has challenged the barriers created in part by the dichotomies of female vs. male. The language barrier prevented direct access to the sources of supply of Chinese goods and to their final customers. Though volunteers expected all kinds of difficulties the language barrier broke all of Shen's expectations, despite having a good command of English. As for the other subject, elimination of trade barriers to environmental goods and services will facilitate both the expansion of trade and protection of the environment. What are the barriers to effective communication? It would also be informative to track all hospital deaths and discover the obstacles and barriers to obtaining an autopsy. Patients with communication barriers (eg, language, hearing, speech) should be provided with an interpreter. With visionaries like this leading the charge, it's hard to conceive of any barriers a hip-hop movement can't break. Synonyms obstacle, obstruction, hurdle, stumbling block, bar, block, impediment, hindrance snag, catch, drawback, hitch, handicap, deterrent, complication, difficulty, problem, disadvantage, baulk, curb, check, stop informal fly in the ointment, hiccup, facer British informal spanner in the works North American informal monkey wrench in the works literary trammel archaic cumber Origin Late Middle English (denoting a palisade or fortification defending an entrance): from Old French barriere, of unknown origin; related to barre. bar from Middle English: There are few more functional words than bar. It gives us bars of soap and chocolate, bars serving drinks, bars that we can put criminals behind, and in Britain members of the Bar who can help put them there. The word entered English from French in the early Middle Ages, but beyond that its history is unknown. Its earliest use was for fastening a gate or door. People used it for various kinds of barrier (Late Middle English), a related word. In a court a bar marked off the area around the judge's seat, where prisoners were brought to be charged, hence prisoner at the bar. At the Inns of Court, where lawyers were trained in England, a bar separated students from those qualified, and a student was ‘called to the bar’ to become a fully fledged barrister (Late Middle English). From this the Bar came to mean the whole body of barristers, or the barrister's profession, as early as the 16th century. At this time a bar was also a barrier or counter from which drink was served. From barring doors and barring a person's way, it took a small step for bar to mean ‘to prohibit’, as in no holds barred (mid 20th century), and ‘except’: bar none (early 18th century) means ‘without exception’. Rhymes carrier, farrier, harrier, tarrier Definition of barrier in US English: barrier nounˈbɛriərˈberēər 1A fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access. 屏障；障碍物 Example sentencesExamples A uniformed cop stands next to the boy and both are enclosed in a space fenced off with four-foot-high barriers. It's one thing to put up a security fence, a barrier that is clearly on your property, the dividing line, so to speak, in order to protect yourself. As helicopters buzzed overhead, army engineers erected concrete barriers and razor wire fences in the fields off Drumcree Road. They were in talks with the council to replace a wooden fence with a barrier but were told last week it would never happen. Summit delegates will hold their air conditioned talks there behind police lines, wire fences, concrete barriers and the sound of percussion grenades fired at protesters. Special thanks also to Noel Kenny and Cecil Carter for the sound system, Andrew Broderick for organising the power and to Rent a Fence for providing the barriers. The security perimeter around the missions of the UK, the US and Turkey was widened and new fences and barriers were installed. In the western world, the sea has come to be regarded as a barrier, restricting our movements. As security fences and barriers went up, manholes were welded shut and hotels and offices swept by teams of officials. However, he told council he would like to protect the fence with barriers, to prevent vehicle operators from accidentally running into the fence. The only barrier is to the movement of cars onto the streetcar tracks. The buried debris then acts as a physical barrier to the movement of water upward and downward. The tahsildar had to intervene and put up a barrier blocking the movement of people and vehicles. The mountains provided a natural barrier to allow the settlers to build their own eco-system. A bulldozer blade would be similarly effective today, for use in clearing rabble and barriers during urban movement. The only real injury that I suffered was when I wrenched my knee jumping down from the barrier fence getting out of the ring. Over the past year their government has set about establishing that separation unilaterally by the construction of a serpentine course of fences, barriers, walls. The Oceanlab team discovered that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a barrier to the movement of deep-sea fish between the east and west Atlantic Ocean. Roads passing the hotel will be blocked, local people issued with photographic identity cards and a five-mile steel fence with a second barrier inside the grounds will cordon off the hotel itself. They weren't there to keep me away from, Heaven forbid, a Democrat or a protester; those folks were kept safely behind rings of fences and concrete barriers. Synonyms fence, railing, barricade, hurdle, bar, blockade, roadblock 1.1 The starting gate of a racecourse. Example sentencesExamples The picador is seen drawn up at a short distance from the barrier. Starting wide from barrier 10 Gladwin wasted no time in challenging by charging to the lead beside Compass Boy. Starting out of barrier two He's Tough Enough led from start to finish and went to the line a length in front of the well supported Al Tayar at 7 / 4. 1.2British A gate at a parking lot that controls access by being raised or lowered. 〈英〉（车库门口或火车站口控制进入的）升降栏 Example sentencesExamples At other times, the barriers will control access and there will be a Euro2-exit charge. Road-users were alarmed when the Drypool Bridge started to open without the usual warning signals or barriers being lowered They were finally shifted after the council dug trenches and police escorted the caravans and vehicles off the car park, installing barriers in their wake. The boss of a supermarket is to put barriers across its car park to keep out car cruisers who use it as a meeting place. He leapt over station barriers and jumped on the tube. An investigation has been launched after a minibus full of passengers went through the barriers at Manningtree railway station - just seconds before a train was due to arrive. Many train stations now have automatic barriers that only allow ticket holders onto the platform. Nurses at Wallsend Aged Care Facility have voted to take industrial action if work commences to build barriers or gates to car parking areas. She also says that barrier controlled car parks have to be manned at all times so staff can let disabled people out. You see, they've installed these ticket barriers at Oxford station and today was supposed to be the day upon which these came into use. Automatic barriers at the village railway station were controlled by rail staff during the emergency. I had been to the supermarket, which has a car-park incorporating barriers and tickets. The train is late and there begins a tiny shuffling, like a re-focusing of the group, as we all look up the tracks where the barriers are still raised and the individual traffic is crossing. Instead he panicked, jumping over the station's ticket barriers and running down to a train where he was shot. Think Pret a Manger; think bendy buses; think automatic ticket barriers at Charing Cross station. The police also raised the barriers at the Riom tollgate in anticipation of the satanic Vel Satis making a break for freedom. Ticket barriers at stations slow down passenger flow, but the determined non-payer can still vault over them, or sneak through behind a legitimate ticketholder. Traffic was controlled and barriers put up by the council to keep pedestrians safe and form a protected walkway on the road. The extra parking revenue will help pay for a new pay station system instead of putting coins in the barrier to leave the car park. Last February's disaster exposed the inadequacy of barriers dividing road and railway. Synonyms wicket, wicket gate, lychgate, five-barred gate, turnstile 1.3 A circumstance or obstacle that keeps people or things apart or prevents communication or progress. 〈喻〉障碍；隔阂 a language barrier 语言障碍。 the cultural barriers to economic growth 妨碍经济发展的文化隔阂。 Example sentencesExamples It would also be informative to track all hospital deaths and discover the obstacles and barriers to obtaining an autopsy. The Department of Social Development is mandated with break down barriers to equality of opportunity for Canadians. With visionaries like this leading the charge, it's hard to conceive of any barriers a hip-hop movement can't break. Though volunteers expected all kinds of difficulties the language barrier broke all of Shen's expectations, despite having a good command of English. The Europeans in this regards are the worst culprits, with more and more useless regulation being used as barriers to free trade. For decades, the women's movement has challenged the barriers created in part by the dichotomies of female vs. male. Thai TV, apart from the language barrier, has limited international appeal for these kinds of shows. The large food retailers are going global, and as barriers to trade come down, the economics ate determining where the investment and trade take place. As for the other subject, elimination of trade barriers to environmental goods and services will facilitate both the expansion of trade and protection of the environment. But the remaining barriers to completely liberalized trade lend themselves to be very focused defensive positions. Sometimes even the language barrier cannot keep hypocrites apart. How far and how quickly to tear down barriers to world farm trade was a key topic of the discussions, which showed countries were still widely split on the issue. Patients with communication barriers (eg, language, hearing, speech) should be provided with an interpreter. What are the barriers to effective communication? They are warm, but the language barrier keeps us apart. But the 1970s also witnessed attempts to break down the racial barriers to economic opportunity and home ownership. A helpful part of this section is an explicit description outlining how the program overcame obstacles and barriers to implementation. The language barrier prevented direct access to the sources of supply of Chinese goods and to their final customers. Ironically, those people who make the greatest demands on the healthcare system are those facing the greatest barriers to using online communication tools. Through lobbying government, educational workshops, videos and programs, they are working together to remove barriers to women in trades. Synonyms obstacle, obstruction, hurdle, stumbling block, bar, block, impediment, hindrance 1.4 A long narrow island lying parallel and close to the mainland, protecting the mainland from erosion and storms. Example sentencesExamples But even out here on the barrier islands we'll have at least 10 feet of storm surge. When the eye gets up to the coastline and the winds come from the south, that's when that storm surge is really going to push over the barrier islands and up into the bay. There are a lot of areas that present real challenges for us, because we not only have people living in the mainland but in barrier islands around our city. Bob Franken reports on the damage on Sanibel, one of the barrier islands to first feel the brunt of that storm. New Orleans allowed development for decades that actually weakened the barrier islands, encouraged erosion. It peeled the roofs off buildings, toppled light poles, and flooded some bridges from the mainland to the Atlantic coast's barrier islands. The outer-bounding coastline is generally a narrow strip of land or a chain of barrier islands. Roofs were torn off, stop lights dangled precariously and bridges from the mainland to barrier islands were flooded. Morton said the assessment shows that coastal Louisiana is most vulnerable to shoreline erosion along with barriers islands in Texas. This is, after all, a barrier island so it can be very vulnerable to storms. Bar-built Estuaries form when a shallow lagoon or bay is protected from the ocean by a sand bar or barrier island. Not surprisingly, the barrier islands protecting this region have deteriorated to an alarming extent and are in need of restoration. This is how the barrier island main street near the zoo looked as the storm rolled in. In these areas, common cider pairs, flocks, and broods were concentrated close to barrier islands. It is a very fragile piece of barrier island, very close to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. One, the people here in Galveston, this narrow strip of barrier island, are taking the evacuation notice very seriously. A lot of them saying they felt they were somewhat protected because there are barrier islands between them and the Gulf. Phrases break the barrier Pass or exceed a significant level or amount. the Tokyo stock exchange reopened to break the 5000-yen barrier Example sentencesExamples Takahashi became the first woman to break the barrier of two hours and 20 minutes in the Berlin marathon, shattering the existing world best by nearly a minute with a time of 2: 19.46. The book has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 17 weeks and is set to break the barrier of a million hardback copies sold. ‘It is relatively easy to run inside 14 seconds, but very difficult to break the barrier of 13 seconds,’ he said. Patrick talks about the weather, anything to break the barrier that blocks affection. Even lighter skinned Black people were advantaged over the darker skinned Black persons, but could not break the barrier into the arena of full inclusion based upon merit. More players like that showing up on NBA teams gave young international players more confidence they could break the barrier. However, a young Oxford medical student, Roger Bannister, was not deterred from his goal to be the first to break the barrier. Unable to break the barrier and make the majors, Savage switched gears and decided to give the family business a try. These are tears that break the barrier of the limitations of my own ego and the smallness of my life. The point is whether we can break the barrier after the great attempt,’ he says. Origin Late Middle English (denoting a palisade or fortification defending an entrance): from Old French barriere, of unknown origin; related to barre. noun.1 phr.
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