Word.ws English Dictionary

half-barrier

half-barrier noun: at an automatic half-barrier level crossing, a lifting barrier that does not block the whole road when in the horizontal position, placed on the left side in the UK according to driving on the left, and mostly used on narrower or quieter roads instead of two lifting barriers either side of the railway crossing.

Noun

half-barrier (plural half-barriers)

  1. At an automatic half-barrier level crossing, a lifting barrier that does not block the whole road when in the horizontal position, placed on the left side in the UK according to driving on the left, and mostly used on narrower or quieter roads instead of two lifting barriers either side of the railway crossing.
    • [...] all crossings with lifting half-barriers will be equipped in this way. [...]. At level crossings where there are to be half-barriers, train-operated through track-circuiting, the barriers will be timed to lower fully about five seconds before the fastest train can reach the crossing.1960 September, “Talking of Trains: New level-crossing signs”, in Trains Illustrated, page 519

Forms of half-barrier

pluralhalf-barriers

Phrases with half-barrier

Questions about half-barrier

What does half-barrier mean?
Half-barrier means at an automatic half-barrier level crossing, a lifting barrier that does not block the whole road when in the horizontal position, placed on the left side in the UK according to driving on the left, and mostly used on narrower or quieter roads instead of two lifting barriers either side of the railway crossing.
What part of speech is half-barrier?
Half-barrier is a noun.
What is the plural of half-barrier?
The plural of half-barrier is half-barriers.

Words near half-barrier in the dictionary

  1. half-bakedness
  2. half-bakeds
  3. half-ball
  4. half-baptism
  5. half-baptisms
  6. half-barrier
  7. half-barriers
  8. half-bat
  9. half-bath
  10. half-bats
  11. half-birthday

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: half-barrier (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “half-barrier.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/half-barrier. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.