Barrier vs Retaining - What's the difference?
barrier | retaining |
A structure that bars passage.
An obstacle or impediment.
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A boundary or limit.
Of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.
As a noun barrier
is a structure that bars passage.As an adjective retaining is
of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.As a verb retaining is
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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.}}
