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Hurdles vs Barrier - What's the difference?

hurdles | barrier |

As nouns the difference between hurdles and barrier

is that hurdles is while barrier is a structure that bars passage.

As a verb hurdles

is (hurdle).

hurdles

English

Noun

(head)
  • A sport where athletes run along a track obstructed by regularly placed hurdles that must be leapt over.
    • Despite a stumble, he managed to come fourth in the hurdles .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hurdle)

    • 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