Word Finder - barriers

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A structure that bars passage.

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An obstacle or impediment.

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A boundary or limit.

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(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.

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

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The lists in a tournament.

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(in the plural) A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.

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To block or obstruct with a barrier.

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The bridges were all destroyed, and the old barriers from the war are back up.

He saw through her, pushed down the barriers of her soul and stepped back to examine it.

Before the Civil War they were owners of land, but for the most part not owners of slaves, so that a social and political barrier, as well as the barriers of nature, separated them from the other inhabitants of the state.

Jenn felt the last of his barriers fall as her own did in the face of their unspoken promise of complete surrender between lifemates.

High mountain barriers and deep river courses had separated the Spaniards locally.

Crossing of the species barriers in the wild is normally very rare.

Simply being a single parent does set up natural barriers to dating.

One of the barriers to fun is communication, especially lack of communication.

An exercise bike removes those barriers to exercise.

It should be noted, however, that the spirit of brotherly love was confined within national barriers.

Between the latter and the confluence with the Araguay, the Tocantins is occasionally obstructed by rocky barriers which cross it almost at a right angle.

It has its sources in the Guiana highlands, but its long course is frequently interrupted by violent currents, rocky barriers, and rapids.

Paris was thus left to the rioters, who seized arms wherever they could find them, broke open the jails, burnt the octroi barriers and soon had every man's life and goods at their discretion.

With few exceptions the islands are surrounded by barriers of coral, broken by openings opposite the mouths of streams. Viti Levu is the most important island not only from its size, but from its fertility, variety of surface, and population, which is over one-third of that of the whole group. The town of Suva lies on an excellent harbour at the south-east of the island, and has been the capital of the colony since 1882, containing the government buildings and other offices.

The first of these is the comparative absence of natural barriers in the interior, owing to which intercommunication between tribes, the dissemination of culture and tribal migration have been considerably facilitated.

His order and enumeration of the principles of being, his doctrine of the double aspect of intellect, and of the perfect beatitude which consists in the aggregation of noble minds when they are delivered from the separating barriers of individual bodies, present at least in germ the characteristic theory of Averroes.

Having lost his first employment - with a procureur - through dishonesty, he obtained a clerkship in the Paris octroi in 1789, but was dismissed for abandoning his post when the Parisians burned the octroi barriers on the night of the L2th-13th of July 1789.

This difference is readily explained when we remember that in Europe the main barriers which stop migration, such as the Alps and the Mediterranean, run east and west, while in America the only barriers of any importance run north and south.

When the storm burst, he remained entrenched behind the barriers of his own disciplined empire; sovereigns truckling in a panic to insurgent democracies he would not lift a finger to help;' it was not till Francis Joseph of Austria in 1849 appealed to him in the name of autocracy, reasserting its rights, that he consented to intervene, and, true to the promise made at Miinchengratz in 1833, crushed the insurgent Hungarians and handed back their country as a free gift to the Habsburg king.

She was afraid to know what he thought, if he was counting the ways he could manipulate her now that there were no more barriers.

Break down the barriers to reverse ageism - part 2 of 2 by Sally Greengross What are the possible solutions?

Radio JXL review He calls himself a " master alchemist, electronic daredevil and breaker of sound barriers " .

To help overcome these barriers TP Herts applied for an Innovation into Action Grant, which was awarded in June 2003.

It may also facilitate technological progress, by reducing firms ' switching costs and so lowering barriers to entry and barriers to change.

The ' Parent Know How ' campaign has been developed to break down some of the perceived barriers to asking for help.

Hopefully, I'll be able to transcend language barriers with visual storytelling.

Indeed, studies reveal no systematic relationship between a country's average level of tariff and non-tariff barriers and its subsequent economic growth rate.

We would not want to see any artificial barriers placed in the way of appropriate recognition of new units of assessment.

That trend to world markets is irreversible unless the major economic powers set up trade and tariff barriers.

Barriers with a low hydraulic conductivity can be produced by adding bentonite to a locally available soil.

Barriers came down extremely fast and there was a real camaraderie.

Despite general policies supporting cogeneration and decentralized power production, these practical barriers seem hard to remove.

In December, Brian Mickelthwaite said the sector demonstrated the futility of trying to build an internationally competitive industry behind high tariff barriers.

Driving forces of and barriers to sustainable consumption (international workshop ).

I am not persuaded that barriers to entry are low enough to offset the potential detriment to competition.

A 1m high mesh wire fence will be erected around the camping area where there are no natural barriers.

However, helpful and important EU Directives on settlement finality and financial collateral have reduced the risks of these legal barriers.

Such dams, supplemented by simple barriers made of dirt, were used to collect floodwaters and promote deep wetting of the ground.

The Romans marked their borders with a series of defensive fortifications, including large continuous wall barriers.

Do class barriers affect the pursuit of sexual gratification?

Few researchers can breach the seemingly impenetrable barriers of the medieval period.

The pressure to retain and grow market share is huge even tho the barriers to actually doing so are becoming ever more insurmountable.

In another an elf and human cross the barriers between their lives to discover one another and defy the odds to keep their love.

It means breaking down the barriers between God and Nature and establishing their essential oneness.

Poor information flows, lack of time, language barriers impeded quality participatory processes.

In evaluating barriers and enablers, we note the paucity of research about how these factors interact.

Perhaps some of the barriers may now become more permeable.

There also exist barriers that prevent the rural populace from accessing pediatric eye care services.

They're a taste of what happens when the barriers of our personality become porous.

The IS P5 preamplifier is required for transmission to the safe area through barriers.