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Fortified vs Barbican - What's the difference?

fortified | barbican |

As a verb fortified

is (fortify).

As a noun barbican is

a tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.

fortified

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fortify)

    • fortify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • 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
    • Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution.
  • *
  • To increase the effectiveness of, as by additional ingredients.
  • * 1979 , Kiplinger's Personal Finance (volume 33, number 7, July 1979, page 47)
    • 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.

    Related terms

    * fort * fortification * fortress

    barbican

    English

    Alternative forms

    * barbacan

    Noun

    (wikipedia barbican) (en noun)
  • 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:
    • Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans .
  • A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.

    • See also

    * bartisan

    References

    * Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language (1766) *