barrier
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
barrier/ˈbariə(r)/
▶noun a fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access.
■ an obstacle to communication, understanding, or progress: a language barrier.
'barrier' also found in these Oxford entries:
backstop
- bar
- barbed wire
- barrage
- barricade
- barrier cream
- barrier method
- barrier reef
- blood–brain barrier
- boom
- breach
- breakwater
- buffer
- bulkhead
- checkpoint
- Chinese wall
- crash barrier
- crush barrier
- dam
- door
- enclosure
- fence
- force field
- gate
- glass ceiling
- groyne
- heat barrier
- Iron Curtain
- kiddle
- membrane
- mount
- pig
- potential barrier
- rail
- razor wire
- ring fence
- roadblock
- safety
- sonic barrier
- sound barrier
- species barrier
- sponge
- stanchion
- starting gate
- stockade
- toll gate
- tunnel
- turnpike
- wall
