Meanings (ES + gloss)
barrera
A structure that bars passage.
The bomber had passed through one checkpoint before blowing himself up at a second barrier.
The bus went through a railway barrier and was hit by a train.
barrera
An obstacle or impediment.
America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (…
Even a small fee can be a barrier for some students.
límite
A boundary or limit.
Few marathon runners break the three-hour time barrier.
The downside of normalization is that it erects a defensive barrier between the real world and the perceived i.e. normalized world.
Phrases
Coulomb barrierEinstein barrierGreat Barrier IslandGreat Barrier ReefJersey barrierNew Jersey barrierSchottky barrierWeismann barrieracoustic barrierallobarrierautomatic half-barrier level crossingbarrier boardbarrier creambarrier islandbarrier lakebarrier methodbarrier nursingbarrier reefbarrier ridgebarrier roguebarrier to entrybarrier to tradebarrier troopsbarrierlessbarrierlikebarristorbiobarrierblood-brain barrierboom barriercolor barriercrash barriercrowd control barriercrush barriercyberbarrierdeath barrierdiffusion-barrierhalf-barrierheat barrierhematoencephalic barrierice barrier
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