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Hoarding vs Barrier - What's the difference?

hoarding | barrier |

As nouns the difference between hoarding and barrier

is that hoarding is a temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public while barrier is a structure that bars passage.

As a verb hoarding

is present participle of lang=en.

hoarding

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK) A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public.
  • A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.
  • (chiefly, British) A billboard.
    • See also
    * (Temporary fencing) * * (Billboard)

    Etymology 2

    See hoard

    Verb

    (head)
    • See also
    * ("hoarding" on Wikipedia)

    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