Barrier vs. Chicane — What's the Difference?

A fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access

A chicane () is a serpentine curve in a road, added by design rather than dictated by geography. Chicanes add extra turns and are used both in motor racing and on roads and streets to slow traffic for safety.

A material formation or structure, such as a mountain range or wall, that prevents passage or access.

To resort to tricks or subterfuges; use chicanery.

Something immaterial that obstructs or impedes

To trick; deceive.

(Physiology) A membrane, tissue, or mechanism that blocks the passage of certain substances.

Chicanery.

(Ecology) A physical or biological factor that limits the migration, interbreeding, or free movement of individuals or populations.

(Games) A bridge or whist hand without trumps.

A movable gate that keeps racehorses in line before the start of a race.

A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.

Often barriers The palisades or fences enclosing the lists of a medieval tournament.

The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.

(Geology) An ice barrier.

The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.

A structure that bars passage.

(motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.

An obstacle or impediment.

A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.

A boundary or limit.

(intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks, or subterfuge.

(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.

(transitive) To deceive.

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

The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; - specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.

(historical) The lists in a tournament.

In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors.

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

To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.

(transitive) To block or obstruct with a barrier.

A bridge hand that is void of trumps

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

A movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes place before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file

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

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

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

Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit

Any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack.

Raise trivial objections

Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.

A structure or object that impedes free movement

Any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective;

Anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access