Barricade vs Impediment - What's the difference?
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A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
* Derham
(figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation.
to close or block a road etc., using a barricade
to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port
A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book
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, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=2
(chiefly, in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta
As nouns the difference between barricade and impediment
is that barricade is a barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence while impediment is a hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.As a verb barricade
is to close or block a road etc., using a barricade.barricade
English
Noun
(en noun)- Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.
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* (wikipedia "barricade") *Verb
impediment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus far into the bowels of the land / Have we marched on without impediment .
citation, passage=I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.}}
- Working in a noisy factory left him with a slight hearing impediment .