Barriers are walls, either physical or metaphorical. They can block movement the Great Wall of China was a barrier to block invading forces from entering. A window shade is a light barrier. Failing English is a barrier to getting into Harvard.
A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
Noun
a structure or object that impedes free movement
Noun
any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective; "intolerance is a barrier to understanding"
Noun
anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access
n.
A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made
in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
n.
A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a
country, commanding an avenue of approach.
n.
A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to
keep back a crowd.
n.
An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or
attack.
n.
Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.
Barrier
No sooner were the barriers opened, than he paced into the lists.4.
'Twixt that [instinct] and reason, what a nice barrier !
A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
Usage Examples
I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
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Other Usage ExamplesI'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
Arafat was a barrier to peace.
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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