Hürde — meaning in English
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English meaning
- barrier noun A physical structure that blocks passage or access.
- hoarding noun A large outdoor advertising board; a billboard.
- hurdle noun A barrier that a runner or horse must jump over during a race.
- obstacle noun Something that blocks progress or makes it harder to move forward, whether physical or figurative.
Senses
Hürde is used for these senses in English:
- barrier An obstacle or impediment.
- hoarding (architecture, historical) A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.
- hurdle (athletics, horses) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
- hurdle (figuratively) An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.
- hurdle A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
- obstacle Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively
barrier — full definition
- noun A physical structure that blocks passage or access.
- noun Something that prevents progress or makes an action difficult.
hoarding — full definition
- noun A large outdoor advertising board; a billboard.
- noun A temporary fence or barrier put up around a construction site.
- noun A psychological disorder marked by an ongoing need to collect items and severe difficulty discarding them.