Fortified vs Barbican - What's the difference?
fortified | barbican |
(fortify)
To increase the defenses of; to strengthen and secure by military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.
To impart strength or vigor to.
* Sir Walter Scott
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To increase the effectiveness of, as by additional ingredients.
* 1979 , Kiplinger's Personal Finance (volume 33, number 7, July 1979, page 47)
A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town
A fortress at the end of a bridge.
An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
* 1922 James Joyce, Ulysses 11:
A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
As a verb fortified
is (fortify).As a noun barbican is
a tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.fortified
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Verb
(head)fortify
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Verb
(en-verb)- Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution.
- Compare the nutrition information label of a regular ready-to-eat fortified cereal with that of a presweetened brand and you'll note that, although the sweetened one's sugar content is higher, the fortification is virtually identical.
barbican
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Alternative forms
* barbacanNoun
(wikipedia barbican) (en noun)- Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans .