Barrier vs Zeriba - What's the difference?
barrier | zeriba |
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 fence, particularly those once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
* 1849 , O'Reilly translating Werne, Exped. Sources White Nile , II 112:
* 1895 , A. H. Keane translating W. Junker, Trav. in Afr. , I v 245:
(label) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.
* 1884 Mar. 11, Times , 5:
(label) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
* 1887''' Apr. 9, ''Times , 5:
(label) Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
* 1910 , :
* 1961 , P. G. Wodehouse, Ice in Bedroom , vii. 52:
To erect or take refuge within a zereba.
* 1885 July, 19th Cent. , 89:
* 1911 , "Somaliland" in the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th ed., Vol. 25:
As nouns the difference between barrier and zeriba
is that barrier is a structure that bars passage while zeriba is a fence, particularly those once commonly improvised in northeastern africa from thornbushes.As a verb zeriba is
to erect or take refuge within a zereba.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 barrierzeriba
English
Alternative forms
* zareba (particularly in figurative uses) * seriba, sariba * zerybeh * zereba, zareeba, zerribaNoun
(en noun)- A shining seriba of reeds, the stalks of which ... perhaps only afford resistance to tame animals.
- The expression ‘'zeriba country ’ applied by some geographers to the northern slope of the Nile–Congo divide.
- The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) advanced this morning to Baker Pasha's zariba .
- ...Forming a zariba , or square, to resist cavalry.
- Once you had passed the initial zareba of fruit stands, souvenir stands, ice-cream stands, and the lair of the enthusiast whose aim in life it was to sell you picture post-cards, and had won through to the long walk where the seats were, you were practically alone with Nature.
- Owing to his obiter dicta having to be filtered through a zareba of white hair, it was not always easy to catch exactly what Mr. Cornelius said.
Verb
(en verb)- The Brigadier ordered the force to zereba on the best position that was near.
- On the 2nd of June a small force, zeribaed under Captain Malcolm McNeill, was attacked by the mullah's followers but repulsed after desperate fighting.
