advantage vs barrier

advantage

noun
  • Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end. 

  • Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit 

  • The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position. 

  • The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game. 

  • Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). 

verb
  • to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of 

  • to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to 

barrier

noun
  • An obstacle or impediment. 

  • A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others. 

  • A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries. 

  • The lists in a tournament. 

  • A structure that bars passage. 

  • A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A. 

  • A boundary or limit. 

verb
  • To block or obstruct with a barrier. 

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