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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.  Antonym: unbar.



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"Bar" Quotes from Famous Books



... who tried to arbitrate between the conflicting tendencies of his age. He was an Aufklaerer in so far as he brought reason itself to the bar of reason and sat in judgment upon its claims, and, likewise, in so far as he insisted on the objective validity of physics and mathematics. But he was as much opposed to the pretentiousness of dogmatic metaphysics as ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, Volume 5. • Various

... still the hurt in his heart, and he told himself that it was her happiness be wanted more than his; that if she found greater pleasure in having Chet near, then his love was unworthy if it placed itself as a bar to that ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various

... another I managed to get out of my berth, and on my feet, and so to the door; but when I tried to open the door I could not budge it, and in the darkness I struck my head against what seemed to be a bar of wood that stuck in through one of the upper panels and so held it fast. The blow dizzied me, for it took me close to where my cut was and ...
— In the Sargasso Sea - A Novel • Thomas A. Janvier

... may be proper to add that, in course of time, the Stately Pine reached the capes of North Carolina, in safety; and that, having effected her passage over Edenton bar, without striking, she ascended the river to the point of her destination. Here the crew soon began to throw out hints, relative to an encounter of their schooner with a French cruiser. As the British empire, ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper

... a court of justice. Suppose a sinner standing at the bar of God, the bar of conscience, and the bar of his fellow-men, charged ...
— Sovereign Grace - Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects • Dwight Moody


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