Priority vs Barrier - What's the difference?
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An item's relative importance.
A goal of a person or an organisation.
(taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
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(obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
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A structure that bars passage.
An obstacle or impediment.
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A boundary or limit.
As nouns the difference between priority and barrier
is that priority is an item's relative importance while barrier is a structure that bars passage.priority
English
(wikipedia priority)Noun
(priorities)- He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
- She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
- Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority ."
- Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.
Derived terms
* aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top prioritybarrier
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.}}