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Barrier vs Barkier - What's the difference?

barrier | barkier |

As a noun barrier

is a structure that bars passage.

As an adjective barkier is

(barky).

barrier

English

(wikipedia barrier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A structure that bars passage.
  • An obstacle or impediment.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
    • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=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 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
  • A boundary or limit.

    • Derived terms

    * barrier reef * color barrier * crash barrier * diffusion-barrier * half-barrier * ice barrier * language barrier * racial barrier * sound barrier * tilt barrier * tire barrier * toll barrier

    barkier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (barky)

    • barky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of a tree) Having bark.
    • This drink has a barky taste.
    It was a very barky tree.
  • Prone to bark, to make the sound of a dog.
    • A barky dog.
  • Sounding like the bark of a dog.
    • She has a barky cough.

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