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Barrier vs. Hurdle — What's the Difference?

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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