Definitions for BARRICADE
ˈbær ɪˌkeɪd, ˌbær ɪˈkeɪdbar·ri·cade

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. roadblock, barricadenoun

   a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

2. barricadeverb

   a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy

   "they stormed the barricade"

3. barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, barverb

   render unsuitable for passage

   "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"

4. barricadeverb

   prevent access to by barricading

   "The street where the President lives is always barricaded"

5. barricade, barricadoverb

   block off with barricades

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barricadenoun

   A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence

2. barricadenoun

   An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.

3. barricadenoun

   A place of confrontation.

4. barricadeverb

   to close or block a road etc., using a barricade

5. barricadeverb

   to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barricadenoun

   Etymology: barricade, Fr.

   1. A fortification made in haste, of trees, earth, waggons, or any thing else, to keep off an attack.2. Any stop; bar; obstruction.

   There must be such a barricade, as would greatly annoy, or rather absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere. William Derham, Physico-Theology.

2. To Barricadeverb

   To stop up a passage.

   Etymology: barricader, Fr.

   A new vulcano continually discharging that matter, which being till then barricaded up, and imprisoned in the bowels of the earth, was the occasion of very great and frequent calamities. John Woodward, Natural History.

   Now all the pavement sounds with trampling feet,
   And the mixt hurry barricades the street,
   Entangled here, the waggon’s lengthen’d team. John Gay.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barricade

   Barricade (from the French barrique - 'barrel') is any object or structure that creates a barrier or obstacle to control, block passage or force the flow of traffic in the desired direction. Adopted as a military term, a barricade denotes any improvised field fortification, such as on city streets during urban warfare. Barricades also include temporary traffic barricades designed with the goal of dissuading passage into a protected or hazardous area or large slabs of cement whose goal is to prevent forcible passage by a vehicle. Stripes on barricades and panel devices slope downward in the direction traffic must travel.There are also pedestrian barricades - sometimes called bike rack barricades for their resemblance to a now obsolete form of bicycle stand, or police barriers. They originated in France approximately 50 years ago and are now produced around the world. They were first produced in the U.S. 40 years ago by Friedrichs Mfg for New Orleans's Mardi Gras parades. Anti-vehicle barriers and blast barriers are sturdy barricades that can respectively counter vehicle and bomb attacks.

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1. barricade

   A barricade is a structure or object set up to block, control or prevent passage or access, usually for safety or security purposes. These can be temporary or permanent, and can be found in various situations, such as during protests, construction sites or in military operations.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barricadenoun

   a fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access

2. Barricadenoun

   any bar, obstruction, or means of defense

3. Barricadenoun

   to fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris

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1. Barricade

   Barricade, from the French barrique, is any object or structure that creates a barrier or obstacle to control, block passage or force the flow of traffic in the desired direction. Adopted as a military term, a barricade denotes any improvised field fortification, most notably on the city streets during urban warfare. Barricades also include temporary traffic barricades designed with the goal of dissuading passage into a protected or hazardous area or large slabs of cement whose goal is to actively prevent forcible passage by a vehicle. Stripes on barricades and panel devices slope downward in the direction traffic must travel. There are also pedestrian barricades - sometimes called bike rack barricades for their resemblance to a now obsolete form of bicycle stand, or police barriers. They originated in France approximately 50 years ago and are now produced around the world. They were first produced in the U.S. 40 years ago by Friedrichs Mfg for New Orleans's Mardi Gras parades. Finally anti-vehicle barriers and blast barriers are sturdy barricades that can respectively counter vehicle and bomb attacks. As of recent, movable blast barriers have been designed by NTU that can be used to protect humanitarian relief workers, and villagers and their homes in unsafe areas.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barricade

   bar′ik-ād, n. a temporary fortification raised to hinder the advance of an enemy, as in the street fights of Parisian insurrections.—v.t. to obstruct: to fortify.—Earlier form Barricā′do. [Fr.; barrique, a cask, the first street barricades having consisted of casks filled with stones, &c. See Bar.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barricade

   See aircraft arresting barrier.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barricade

   A strong wooden rail, supported by stanchions extending as a fence across the foremost part of the quarter-deck, on the top of which some of the seamen's hammocks are usually stowed in time of battle. In a vessel of war the vacant spaces between the stanchions are commonly filled with rope-mats, cork, or pieces of old cable; and the upper part, which contains a double rope-netting above the sail, is stuffed with full hammocks to intercept small shot in the time of battle. Also, a temporary fortification or fence made with abatis, palisades, or any obstacles, to bar the approach of an enemy by a given avenue.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barricade

   An obstruction formed in streets, avenues, etc., so as to block up access to an enemy. They are generally formed of overturned wagons, carriages, large stones, breastworks, abatis, or other obstacles at hand.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of BARRICADE in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of BARRICADE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of BARRICADE in a Sentence

1. Larry Hadfield:

   This incident is being treated as a barricade at this time. There is no credible information that there is a second suspect.

2. Chris Olivarez:

   The initial group of officers that were on scene, at that point, they were at a point of disadvantage because the shooter was able to barricade himself inside that classroom. There was not sufficient manpower at that time and their main, their primary focus was preserve any further loss of life, so they started breaking windows around the school, and trying to rescue, evacuate children and teachers while that was going on.

3. President Mike Solan:

   As the situation on the ground devolves into more violence, singularly perpetuated by a group of criminal agitators on the west side of the barricade on Pine Street and 11thAvenue, Im fearful that further exposure to SPOG members from these criminal violent acts will have drastic repercussions for public safety.

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