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Definition barrier

Etymology

From Middle English barryer, barrere, barry?er, from Old French barriere (compare French barrière), from Old French barre (“bar”).

Noun

barrier (plural barriers)

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

Verb

barrier (third-person singular simple present barriers, present participle barriering, simple past and past participle barriered)

1. (transitive) To block or obstruct with a barrier.

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