Barrier vs. Hurdle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Barrier and Hurdle
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Barrier
A fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access
The mountain barrier between Norway and Sweden
Hurdle
A hurdle (UK English, limited US English) is a moveable section of light fence. In the United States, terms such as "panel", "pipe panel" or simply "fence section" are used to describe moveable sections of fencing intended for agricultural use and crowd control; "hurdle" refers primarily to fences used as jumping obstacles for steeplechasing with horses or human track and field competition.
Barrier
A material formation or structure, such as a mountain range or wall, that prevents passage or access.
Hurdle
One of a series of upright frames over which athletes in a race must jump
A hurdle race
Barrier
Something immaterial that obstructs or impedes
Lack of education can be a barrier to success.
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Hurdle
A problem or difficulty that must be overcome
Many would like to emigrate to the United States, but face formidable hurdles
Barrier
(Physiology) A membrane, tissue, or mechanism that blocks the passage of certain substances.
Hurdle
A portable rectangular frame strengthened with withies or wooden bars, used as a temporary fence.
Barrier
(Ecology) A physical or biological factor that limits the migration, interbreeding, or free movement of individuals or populations.
Hurdle
Take part in a hurdle race
This gelding hurdled fluently
She took up hurdling
Barrier
A movable gate that keeps racehorses in line before the start of a race.
Hurdle
Enclose or fence off with hurdles
A maze of individual hurdled pens
Barrier
Often barriers The palisades or fences enclosing the lists of a medieval tournament.
Hurdle
A light portable barrier over which competitors must leap in certain races.
Barrier
(Geology) An ice barrier.
Hurdle
Hurdles A race in which a series of such barriers must be jumped without the competitors' breaking their stride.
Barrier
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.
Hurdle
A leaping step made off one foot as means of maximizing spring at the end of an approach, as to a dive.
Barrier
An obstacle or impediment.
Even a small fee can be a barrier for some students.
Hurdle
An obstacle or difficulty to be overcome
The last hurdle before graduation.
Barrier
A boundary or limit.
Few marathon runners break the three-hour time barrier.
Hurdle
Chiefly British A portable framework made of intertwined branches or wattle and used for temporary fencing.
Barrier
(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.
Hurdle
Chiefly British A frame or sledge on which condemned persons were dragged to execution.
Barrier
(physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
Hurdle
To leap over (a barrier) in or as if in a race.
Barrier
(historical) The lists in a tournament.
Hurdle
To overcome or deal with successfully; surmount
Hurdle a problem.
Barrier
A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Hurdle
To leap over a barrier or other obstacle.
Barrier
(transitive) To block or obstruct with a barrier.
Hurdle
An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
He ran in the 100 metres hurdles.
Barrier
A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
Hurdle
(figuratively) An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.
Barrier
A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.
Hurdle
A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
Barrier
A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd.
No sooner were the barriers opened, than he paced into the lists.
Hurdle
A sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
Barrier
Any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack.
Hurdle
To jump over something while running.
He hurdled the bench in his rush to get away.
Barrier
Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.
'Twixt that [instinct] and reason, what a nice barrier!
Hurdle
To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
Barrier
A structure or object that impedes free movement
Hurdle
To overcome an obstacle.
Barrier
Any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective;
Intolerance is a barrier to understanding
Hurdle
To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.
Barrier
Anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access
Hurdle
(T-flapping) hurtle
Hurdle
A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
Hurdle
In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
Hurdle
An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.
Hurdle
To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.
Hurdle
A light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races
Hurdle
An obstacle that you are expected to overcome;
The last hurdle before graduation
Hurdle
The act of jumping over an obstacle
Hurdle
Jump a hurdle
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