Definition of Barrier

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Barrier

A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd.

An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack.

Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.

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Barrier Quotations

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.
Barack Obama

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

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.
Voltaire

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
John Steinbeck

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
M. Scott Peck

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
Miguel de Unamuno

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.
Simon Travaglia

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
Vernon Howard

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.
Chuck Yeager

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child.
Susan Smith

Barrier Translations

barrier in German is Barriere {f}, Absperrung {f}, Grenzschicht {f}
barrier in Italian is blocco, barriera
barrier in Portuguese is barreira
barrier in Spanish is reja, barrera

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