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barrier

sostantivoverbocorrente nei dialoghi

  • Regno Unito//ˈbæɹi.ə//
  • Regno Unito//ˈbaɹɪjə//
  • Australia//ˈbæɹi.ə//
  • //ˈbæɹi.ɚ//
  • //ˈbɛɹi.ɚ//

A structure that bars passage.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    A structure that bars passage.

    The bus went through a railway barrier and was hit by a train.

    The bomber had passed through one checkpoint before blowing himself up at a second barrier.

  2. 2

    An obstacle or impediment.

    Even a small fee can be a barrier for some students.

    If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained- life breaks free, it expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously but,... uh... well, there it is.

    America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

  3. 3

    A boundary or limit.

    Few marathon runners break the three-hour time barrier.

    The downside of normalization is that it erects a defensive barrier between the real world and the perceived i.e. normalized world.

  4. 4

    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. 5

    A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.

  6. 6

    storicoThe lists in a tournament.

  7. 7

    storicoA martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.

Etimologia

From Middle English barrer, barrere, barryȝer, from Anglo-Norman barrere (compare French barrière), from barre (“bar”).

verbo

  1. 1

    To block or obstruct with a barrier.

Forme

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passato
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participio passato
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participio presente
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3ª persona singolare
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