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Bar   /bɑr/   Listen
Bar

noun
1.
A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.  Synonyms: barroom, ginmill, saloon, taproom.
2.
A counter where you can obtain food or drink.
3.
A rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon.
4.
Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats.  Synonym: measure.
5.
An obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal.
6.
The act of preventing.  Synonym: prevention.  "Money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"
7.
(meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter.
8.
A submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore.
9.
The body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.  Synonyms: legal community, legal profession.
10.
A narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background.  Synonyms: streak, stripe.  "May the Stars and Stripes forever wave"
11.
A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).  Synonym: cake.
12.
A portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War.  Synonym: Browning automatic rifle.
13.
A horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises.
14.
A heating element in an electric fire.
15.
(law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried.
verb
(past & past part. barred; pres. part. barring)
1.
Prevent from entering; keep out.  Synonyms: debar, exclude.
2.
Render unsuitable for passage.  Synonyms: barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop.  "Barricade the streets" , "Stop the busy road"
3.
Expel, as if by official decree.  Synonyms: banish, relegate.
4.
Secure with, or as if with, bars.



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"Bar" Quotes from Famous Books



... little till she was something higher than the Tower, to which she came as straight as an arrow from the bow, and glided to her moorings, stopping dead as Rupert pulled a lever, which seemed to turn a barrier to the wind. The Voivode sat beside Rupert, but I must say that he seemed to hold on to the bar in front of him even more firmly than Rupert held to ...
— The Lady of the Shroud • Bram Stoker
... license, and I suppose it would have been a just one under the circumstances. Billy called it "The Bucket of the Lost Lid," and every individual member did exactly as he or she chose. The sideboard out on the back porch made as good a bar as any in the state with old Uncle Wilks to officiate, and in the wing in one of the private dining rooms a huge wheel stood with its face to the wall during the day, but came complacently out of its corner when night descended. On the porch could always be found either ...
— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess
... missed his eleven o'clock whiskey terribly—terribly—his pick-me-up! And he daren't confess it to James, who, he knew, was T-T. So he dragged his weary and hollow way up to Woodhouse, and sank with a long "Oh!" of nervous exhaustion in the private bar of the Moon and Stars. He wrinkled his short nose. The smell of the place was distasteful to him. The disgusting beer that the colliers drank. Oh!—he was so tired. He sank back with his whiskey and stared blankly, dismally in ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... must be done a certain way, and that can only be found out by such a special investigation as I have referred to. Shetland is far behind, and I think the adoption of a cash system would be the means of increasing the number of dealers who would draw away the people's means and be a bar against developing the resources of the country in a proper way. Some of these dealers would be rubbed; the people would be poorer; and no dealer even with capital would be inclined to go into the field in such circumstances. ...
— Second Shetland Truck System Report • William Guthrie
... won't, and vice versa. The truth is, begad, that it's six of one and half a dozen of the other; and sorry would I be to let so slight a change as passing from one religion to the other ever be a bar to the advancement or good fortune of ...
— The Tithe-Proctor - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton


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