IRON CURTAIN Synonyms

• a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy

• prevents access or progress

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• render unsuitable for passage

• obstruct access to

• impose a blockade on

• hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

• any barrier to communication or vision

• provide with drapery

• a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)

• a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

• separate into parts or portions

• perform a division

• act as a barrier between; stand between

• move or break apart

• make a division or separation

• force, take, or pull apart

• a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose

• the act of enclosing something inside something else

• a naturally enclosed space

• something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter

• a barrier that serves to enclose an area

• material for building fences

• the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)

• any structure that makes progress difficult

• the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction

• something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted

• the act of obstructing

• getting in someone's way

• a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)

• (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit

• (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism

• the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

• divide into parts, pieces, or sections

• separate or apportion into sections

• a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing

• a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight

• the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube

• a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

• a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame

• the personnel of the film industry

• a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

• partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space

• test or examine for the presence of disease or infection

• examine methodically

• examine in order to test suitability

• project onto a screen for viewing

• prevent from entering

• separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

• protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm

• the state of lacking unity

• coming apart

• the distance between things

• sorting one thing from others

• the social act of separating or parting company

• the space where a division or parting occurs

• the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)

• (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)

• the act of dividing or disconnecting

• an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure

• anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect

• (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure

• a difficult or awkward situation

• a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)

• a layer of material that encloses space

• a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)

• an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes

• surround with a wall in order to fortify