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Hamper vs Barrier - What's the difference?

hamper | barrier |

As nouns the difference between hamper and barrier

is that hamper is a large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as, or hamper can be a shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes while barrier is a structure that bars passage.

As a verb hamper

is to put into a hamper or hamper can be to put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.

hamper

English

(wikipedia hamper)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hamper, contracted from hanaper, hanypere, from (etyl) hanaper, (etyl) hanapier, .

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as,
  • * a hamper of wine
  • * a clothes hamper
  • * an oyster hamper , which contains two bushels

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a hamper.
    • ''Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hamperen, . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
  • * Blackmore:
    • Hampered nerves.
  • * :
    • A lion hampered in a net.
  • * :
    • They hamper and entangle our souls.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
  • (nautical) Articles]] [[ordinary, ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
    • Derived terms
    * Top hamper , (Nautical): unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft.

    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