Synonym: barricade, fortification, obstruction. Similar words: carrier, barrel, arrival, warrior, arrive at, embarrassed, fierce, bar. Meaning: ['bærɪə] n. 1. a structure or object that impedes free movement 2. any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective 3. anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access.
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211. Wooden planters filled with annuals formed a low protective barrier around the perimeter.
212. This huge stretch of coastline is dominated by offshore barrier islands built by the surf out of drifting sand.
213. Then it seemed that class differences were an insurmountable barrier, but this too was not the only answer.
214. But once that barrier has been broken, what is the fight about then?
215. These were deposited in lagoonal, intertidal and sabkha environments, respectively, that became established behind the barrier complex.
216. Now the council is waiting for the car parks firm to solve the crash barrier problem.
217. Fields will be surrounded by barrier strips to prevent phosphate, nitrate, and pesticide pollution of water-courses.
218. A decade ago this was Checkpoint Charlie, one of the few gaps in an otherwise impenetrable barrier a hundred miles long.
219. Yet some people seem to learn to live with imperfection and others find it an impenetrable barrier.
220. It is known to act as a barrier to the development of delinquent tendencies[Sentencedict.com], among other things.
221. It is less satisfactory if there is a danger of creating a psychological barrier to doing something positive about getting another job.
222. This does not present the same barrier to pupils use of algebraic ideas within computer programming environments.
223. We ran around a complete circuit before the first barrier came upon us.
224. I try to maintain a very porous barrier between myself and the rest of the world.
225. He is concerned with the existence of invisible power within the state, creating a barrier between it and the people.
226. One touch, one thought, one look was enough to break through the flimsy barrier.
227. Our friendship is a triumph of overcoming every known barrier.
228. Being a visible physical barrier, the grilles are an excellent deterrent.
229. He was equally certain they could cross the barrier between gorgio and Romany together.Sentencedict
230. Profiled insulation panels are laid on top of vapour barrier and then covered with Rockwell sheet.
231. These were sealed in the same way as the rooflights, with air / vapour barrier material and plenty of butyl tape.
232. I handed in my ticket and walked through the barrier to the front of the station where the car park was.
233. The farm version is self-fertile, which places it behind a barrier.
234. Excessive regulation may also be an effective barrier to entry, thus reducing competition and providing large profits for the incumbents.
235. If you are agreeable to the suggestion, the financial arrangements need not be a barrier to you.
236. Leyba suggested putting a bracket or a barrier between the cable and the spot where it entered the machine.
237. Thus, the fringing reef would be changed into a barrier reef and finally into an atoll if the island subsided completely.
238. We would need a large number to hold these off, form a barrier.
239. At the time of his death Campbell was unsuccessfully seeking backers for a jet-driven car to go through the sound barrier.
240. However, the biggest single barrier remains the memory limitation inherent in chip storage.