Barrier vs Floodwall - What's the difference?
barrier | floodwall |
A structure that bars passage.
An obstacle or impediment.
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
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A boundary or limit.
A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood
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As nouns the difference between barrier and floodwall
is that barrier is a structure that bars passage while floodwall is a man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood.barrier
English
(wikipedia barrier)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
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 barrierfloodwall
English
Alternative forms
*flood wallNoun
(en noun)citation