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Definitions: Barrage |
BarrageNoun1. The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written). 2. The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing". Verb1. Attack with a barrage; "The speaker was barraged by an angry audience". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "barrage" was first used: 1859. (references) |
Etymology: Barrage \Bar"rage\, noun. [French expression, from barrer to bar, from barre bar.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | A barrier across a stream provided with gates or other control mechanisms, which is built to control the water level upstream, to regulate the flow or to divert water supplies into a channel. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A barrier constructed across a stream channel to impound water and/or trap sediment for the purpose of flow regulation, erosion control, production of energy, etc. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| 1)a barrier, provided with a series of gates, across the river to regulate water surface level and flow upstream and to divert water supplies into a canal; distinguished from a weir in that it is gated over its entire length and may not have a raised sill 2)in Australia, primarily used for a structure which prevents intrusion of salt water upstream in a tidal river. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The main dam, generally built across the lower part of a gorge. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| An engineering structure erected across and/or along a river or other mass of water to retain, control or divert the flow for specific purposes. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Hydrologic | Any artificial obstruction placed in water to increase water level or divert it. Usually the idea is to control peak flow for later release. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BarrageSynonyms: barrage fire (n), battery (n), bombardment (n), onslaught (n), outpouring (n), shelling (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Barrage |
| English words defined with "barrage": acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid ♦ barrage balloon, barrage fire, barrage jamming, battery, bitter, Blimp, blistering, bombardment ♦ caustic ♦ kite balloon ♦ sausage, sausage balloon, shelling, sulfurous, sulphurous ♦ venomous, virulent, vitriolic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "barrage": balance storage ♦ pondage ♦ regulated storage ♦ Tidal Power. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Barrage" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (barrage, boom, dam, roadblock, Weir). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Grand barrage (1961) Barrage sur l'Orénoque (1996) | |
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 | Barrage; deluge; flood; inundation; landslide; landslip; snowslide; torrent; building; intensify. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Economic History | Kazakhstan | However, many foreign companies cite the need to protect their investments from a never-ending barrage of decrees and legislative changes. (references) |
Travel | Czech Rep | An attempt to take the city by storm with a flurry of quick meetings and barrage of e-mails is more likely to arouse suspicion than business. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Barrage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.75% of the time. "Barrage" is used about 400 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.75% | 355 | 15,127 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.5% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 400 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "barrage": aerial barrage ♦ balloon barrage ♦ barrage balloon ♦ barrage fire ♦ barrage jamming ♦ barrage line ♦ barrage of abuse ♦ barrage of questions ♦ box barrage ♦ creeping barrage ♦ directional barrage ♦ encircling barrage ♦ lay down a barrage ♦ rolling barrage ♦ umbrella barrage. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "barrage": barrage-balloon, barrage-balloons. | |
Ending with "barrage": air-barrage, box-barrage, post-barrage. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
barrage | 109 |
barrage bridgeport | 31 |
barrage d de eau heure l | 10 |
barrage des gorge trois | 10 |
barrage de vanne | 6 |
barrage gouin | 4 |
barrage hydroelectrique | 4 |
barrage balloon | 3 |
barrage farakka | 3 |
barrage photo | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "barrage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | barazh, pritë (ambuscade, ambush, blind, boom, sluice, wait), perde zjarri (curtain-fire), pendë (dam, dike, embankment, feather, fin, mole, pinion, plumage, plume, quill, seawall, sluice, span, Weir, yoke). (various references) | |
Arabic | وابل (dash, fusillade, hail, spray, torrent), سد من نيران, سد (bar, block, bung, clog, close, close up, congest, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fill, floodgate, foul, lock, mure, obturate, obturation, occlude, occlusion, pack, plug, seal, shut, stem, stop, stop up, stuff, tamp, wad, weir), خزان (dam, reservoir, tank). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | заграждение, бент (dam, dike, sluice), бараж (curtain). (various references) | |
Chinese | 坝. (various references) | |
Czech | záplava (flash flood, flood, gush, gust, overflow, spate, stream), přehrada (barrier, dam, reservoir), příval (avalanche, gush, gust, inrush, spate, stream, surge, volley), jez (Weir). (various references) | |
Danish | bevægeligt stemmeværk (gate-structure dam), spaerredaemning, hoveddaemning (key dam), daemning (dyke, embankment, ground sill, jetty, sill). (various references) | |
Dutch | beweegbare stuw (gate-structure dam), voornaamste dam (key dam), stuwdam (dam, damming stage, retention dam), stuw (dam, diversion structure, diversion work, headworks, weir), hoofddam (key dam), dam (bank, bank of rubber, barricade, bund, bund wall, compound wall, dam, dame, damming body, decametre, dyke, embankment, fire wall, king, lady, queen, sea wall, tank dike), afsluitdam (dam). (various references) | |
Farsi | سدبندی , رگبارگلوله , بطورمسلسل بیرون دادن . (various references) | |
Finnish | pato (barrier, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, levee, weir). (various references) | |
French | barrage (barricade, barrier). (various references) | |
German | Wehr (defence, defense, dike, diversion dam, diversion weir, embankment, lasher, overflow, spillway, weir), sperrfeuer (curtain fire), talsperre (dam), Staustufe (damming stage), staudamm (artificial lake, barrier lake, dam, dammed lake), Barriere (barrier). (various references) | |
Greek | κύριον φράγμα (key dam), κινητόν φράγμα 2.φράγμα ανασχέσεως εισροής αλατούχου ύδατος (gate-structure dam), κοιλαδοφράκτησ, πυκνό πυρ, φράγμα ποταμού, φράγμα (barricade, barrier, bound, dam, damming body, delimiter, dike, groyne, limit, overflow, spillway). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחסום (barricade, barrier, block, dam, hurdle, obstacle), מסך אש, סכר (dam, floodgate, lock, sluice, sluice gate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | aknazár (mine barrage), zárótűz (curtain of fire, protective barrage, standing barrage), vízlépcső, duzzasztógát (dam, Weir). (various references) | |
Indonesian | brondongan, berondongan (fusillade, volley of gunfire), tembakau (tobacco). (various references) | |
Italian | sbarramento (barricade, barrier, check dam, debris dam, levee, obstruction, Weir). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 連" , "列 (a battery), 弾幕 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほうれつ (a battery, aromatic, battery, heroic deed, outstanding achievement), れ" , "まく. (various references) | |
Korean | 대공탄막. (various references) | |
Manx | barraje. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arragebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | barragem (barricade, barrier, boom, corral, dam, fence, fish corral, fish weir, fixed net, set net, weir). (various references) | |
Romanian | baraj (dam). (various references) | |
Russian | заграждение (entanglement, fencing, obstruction, roadblock), заградительный огонь, дамба (causeway, dam, dike, embankment, levee, mole, pen, seawall, sea-wall). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brana (dam, groyne, jetty, lock, penstock, pike, preserve, water gate, weir), baražna vatra (curtain-fire), baraža, prepreka (ado, balk, bar, barrier, baulk, difficulty, drag, drawback, hang up, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impeachment, impediment, liability, obstacle, obstruction, set back, setback, snag, static, trammel, traverse), pregrada (baffle, barrier, bulkhead, closure, divider, division, partition, screen, septum, stall). (various references) | |
Spanish | presa (catch, dam, hold, loot, press, prey, prize, quarry, ravin, Weir), bombardeo (bombardment, bomber, bombing, pounding, raid, shellfire, shelling). (various references) | |
Swedish | spärreld, fördämning (dam, debris dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fish garth, weir). (various references) | |
Turkish | bent (article, clause, dike, dyke, embankment, limb, paragraph, strophe, Weir), baraj (dam, preemptive), yaylım ateşi (cross fire, drum-fire, round, salvo, sheaf of fire), yağmur (deluge, flight, hail, hailstorm, pluvial, pluvious, rain, waterworks), set (bank, barrier, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, floodgate, groyne, obstruction, rampart, seawall, set, setting, studio, wall, Weir), engelleme ateşi, engel (balk, bar, barricade, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, countercheck, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, dam, determent, difficulty, discouragement, disincentive, drag, drawback, encumbrance, entanglement, fence, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hobble, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, retardation, rub, shackles, slashing, snag, stay, stick, stop, stumbling block, supersedeas, tie, trammel). (various references) | |
Ukranian | радіоперешкоди, гребля (dam, dike, wear), загороджувальний вогонь, загородження (barricade, obstruction, occlusion), загачувати (bank, bay, impound, jam, pond, stank), загачування, загата (dam), дамба (bank, bund, causeway, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, jetty, mole, pen, pier, sea-bank). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự bắn yểm hộ. (various references) | |
Welsh | clawdd (dyke, embankment, hedge), argae (dam, embankment, enclosed place, weir). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | barrer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "barrage": barraged, barrages. (additional references) | |
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"Barrage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aberargie, arage, barag, barage, Baraje, barajneh, barangay, bardge, bargea, Barjarg, Barnabe, baroge, Barogi, barra, barrae, Barragh, Barranger, Bearnagh, berrage, Birago, Burrage, Burrige, carrage, earragh, gburnage, Karagwe, marrage, Pararge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "barrage" (pronounced berÄ"zh) |
| 3 | -er Ä" zh | garage, mirage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-r-r" | |
-2 letters: barer, barge, barre, rebar. | |
-3 letters: agar, ager, area, bare, bear, berg, brae, brag, garb, gear, grab, raga, rage, rare, rear. | |
-4 letters: aba, aga, age, arb, are, baa, bag, bar, beg, bra, brr, ear, era, erg, err, gab, gae, gar, rag, reb, reg. | |
-5 letters: aa, ab, ae, ag, ar, ba, be, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-g-r-r" | |
+1 letter: barraged, barrages. | |
+2 letters: arbitrage, bargainer, barrelage, graybeard, harborage. | |
+3 letters: arbitraged, arbitrager, arbitrages, bargainers, bargeboard, barrelages, graybeards, harborages. | |
+4 letters: aerobraking, arbitragers, arbitrageur, bargeboards, crabgrasses. | |
+5 letters: arbitrageurs, carpetbagger, embarrassing, irrefragable, irrefragably, marriageable, programmable, rechargeable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 72 72 61 67 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-. .-. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01110010 01110010 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a r r a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0072 0072 0061 0067 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36678484677371 |
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