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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
Dan Colen

Meaning of "barrier" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BARRIER

From Old French barriere, from barrebar1.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BARRIER

barrier  [ˈbærɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BARRIER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Barrier is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BARRIER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Barrier

A barrier or barricade is a physical structure which blocks or impedes something. Barrier may also refer to...

Definition of barrier in the English dictionary

The first definition of barrier in the dictionary is anything serving to obstruct passage or to maintain separation, such as a fence or gate. Other definition of barrier is anything that prevents or obstructs passage, access, or progress. Barrier is also anything that separates or hinders union.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BARRIER


acharya
aˈtʃærɪə
ballcarrier
ˈbɔːlˌkærɪə
carrier
ˈkærɪə
farrier
ˈfærɪə
garrya
ˈɡærɪə
harrier
ˈhærɪə
marrier
ˈmærɪə
noncarrier
ˌnɒnˈkærɪə
subcarrier
ˈsʌbˌkærɪə
supercarrier
ˈsuːpərˌkærɪə
tarrier
ˈtærɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BARRIER

barretry
barrette
barricade
barricader
barrico
barrie
barrier contraceptive
barrier cream
barrier method
barrier nursing
barrier of ideas
barrier reef
barrier-nurse
barring
Barrington
barrio
barrister
barrister-at-law
barristerial
barristership

WORDS THAT END LIKE BARRIER

aircraft carrier
baby carrier
Boston terrier
bull terrier
courier
Dandie Dinmont terrier
Ferrier
fox terrier
Irish terrier
Jack Russell terrier
Norwich terrier
perrier
personnel carrier
Sealyham terrier
Skye terrier
soft-coated wheaten terrier
Staffordshire bull terrier
terrier
the Water Carrier
Welsh terrier
Yorkshire terrier

Synonyms and antonyms of barrier in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BARRIER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «barrier» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of barrier

Translation of «barrier» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BARRIER

Find out the translation of barrier to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of barrier from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «barrier» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

障碍
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

barrera
570 millions of speakers

English

barrier
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बाधा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حَاجِز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

препятствие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

barreira
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাধা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

barrière
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Halangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schranke
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

장벽
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Barrier
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chướng ngại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தடை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अडथळा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bariyer
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

barriera
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bariera
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бар´єр
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

obstacol
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εμπόδιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

versperring
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

barriär
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

barriere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of barrier

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BARRIER»

The term «barrier» is very widely used and occupies the 10.274 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BARRIER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «barrier» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «barrier» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about barrier

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10 QUOTES WITH «BARRIER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word barrier.
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Viswanathan Anand
If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.
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Scott Aukerman
What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.
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Dennis C. Blair
Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law enforcement. The domestic-vs.-foreign barrier has been solved by the reforms after 9/11 that established the DNI.
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Austin Butler
As soon as you start feeling like you can't trust the person and you need to check his phone or have his Facebook password or look through his messages - as soon as that trust barrier is broken - it's hard to keep a relationship going after that.
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Mark Caine
A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
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Laura Chinchilla
We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Dan Colen
A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
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Tyler Cowen
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French spend hundreds of millions of dollars subsidizing film production, extend interest-free loans to designated filmmakers, and have placed quotas not only on imports but on television time.
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Christopher Dawson
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.
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Bernadine Dohrn
I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BARRIER»

Discover the use of barrier in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to barrier and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Skin Barrier
A must-have reference for any researcher or scientist interested in cutaneous protective mechanisms, this guide provides expertly researched chapters on every aspect of stratum corneum structure, function, and development, as well as ...
Peter M. Elias, Kenneth R. Feingold, 2005
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The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney
Based on decades of painstaking research in the Disney studio’s archives and dozens of public and private archives in the United States and Europe, The Animated Man offers freshly documented and illuminating accounts of Disney’s ...
Michael Barrier, 2007
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Across the Great Barrier
In an alternate frontier America, Eff must travel beyond the Great Barrier and come to terms with her magic abilities--and those of her twin brother--to stop the newest threat encroaching on the settlers.
Patricia C. Wrede, 2011
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The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management
This comprehensive guide describes the organisms and ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef, as well as the biological, chemical and physical processes that influence them.
Pat Hutchings, Mike Kingsford, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, 2008
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Breaking the Time Barrier: The Race to Build the First Time ...
Provides a close-up look at the cutting-edge research and experiments that could make time travel a reality, as well as at what such scientific developments would mean for our everyday lives. Original. 12,500 first printing.
Jenny Randles, 2005
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The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef: Development, ...
This 2007 book reviews the history of geomorphological studies of the Great Barrier Reef and assesses the influences of sea-level change and oceanographic processes on the development of reefs over the last 10,000 years.
David Hopley, Scott G. Smithers, Kevin Parnell, 2007
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A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End
Like many coral specialists fifteen years ago, Veron thought Australia's Great Barrier Reef was impervious to climate change. Then he saw for himself the devastation that elevated sea temperatures can inflict on corals.
John Edward Norwood Veron, 2008
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Hollywood Cartoons : American Animation in Its Golden Age: ...
In Hollywood Cartoons, Michael Barrier takes us on a glorious guided tour of American animation in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, to meet the legendary artists and entrepreneurs who created Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Wile E. Coyote, ...
Michael Barrier, 1999
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An Introduction to the Blood-brain Barrier
This book is devoted to exploring the complexities of the blood-brain barrier. The book begins by reviewing the historical experiments that led to the concept of a barrier protecting the brain from variations in the blood.
Hugh Davson, 1993
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The Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier
This unique book analyzes a wealth of new research on the proven and potential roles of the choroid plexus/blood-CSF barrier in the brain.
Wei Zheng, Adam Chodobski, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BARRIER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term barrier is used in the context of the following news items.
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Grizzly bear shatters barrier at Minnesota Zoo | fox8.com
A grizzly bear exhibit at the Minnesota Zoo is temporarily closed after one of the bears picked up a basketball-sized rock and shattered a barrier ... «fox8.com, Jul 15»
2
See the Great Barrier Reef from the perspective of a swimming turtle
He enjoys things slowly, his body is protected by his home which is always attached to his body and he can just dip into the Great Barrier Reef ... «Gizmodo, Jul 15»
3
Camp Good Days Hopes Flood Barrier Works | WXXI News
New barrier wall around the creek flowing through Camp Good Days & Special Times in Branchport. Credit Camp Good Days and Special ... «WXXI News, Jul 15»
4
Dutch postman tears down Tour De France barrier blocking his …
Hilarious moment furious Dutch postman tears down Tour De France barrier and argues with security staff because the race is blocking him ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
5
Cultural barrier still a challenge for medical providers, specialty care …
Cardiologist Dr. Oscar Bailon takes the blood pressure heart patient Feliberto Sanchez June 19, 2015 at the Cardiac and Thoracic Institute of ... «Yakima Herald-Republic, Jul 15»
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Barrier breaker honored for seeking solutions to gender-based …
News, Shelby, Barrier Breaker Awards, July 2015, Carol Helliker, Indrani Goradia. Carol Helliker, from left, Indrani Goradia and Vernus Swisher ... «CultureMap Houston, Jul 15»
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Frustration grows over Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier delays …
Plans to hire a contractor to build a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge have been delayed for several months, raising concerns that ... «San Jose Mercury News, Jul 15»
8
Heartwarming video shows having a disability is no barrier to getting …
It may look like the start of a raunchy movie, but this video of couples getting it on has a serious message. Released by Scope, it aims to show ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Israel to Build 5-Metre-High Barrier Along Jordan Border to Prevent …
Israel will build a 30 km fence along its border with Jordan to seal-off the country from any attacks by Isis. File image shows Israeli and ... «International Business Times, India Edition, Jul 15»
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Track conditions more worrying than barrier draw in Ramornie …
TOP DRAW: Clarence River Jockey Club chairman Graeme Green (left) helps stewards conduct the barrier draw for the Ramornie Handicap ... «Clarence Valley Daily Examiner, Jul 15»

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