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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



... triumphal march and the leader stood up, his violin at his shoulder. He played a bar or two and she ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln
... all a bit too far-fetched, and some of it a bit too far off. 'Ow can we test all those tales? 'Ow can we drop in and buy the 'Pink 'Un' at the railway station at Kosky Wosky or whatever it was? 'Ow can we go and do a gargle at the saloon-bar on top of the Sierra Mountains? But anybody can go and see ...
— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton
... to engage in the matrimonial estate with an agreeable young lady in whose power it is immediately to bestow a living of nearly 100l. per annum, in a very pleasant situation, with a good prospect of preferment,—any person whom this may suit may leave a line at the bar of the Union Coffee House in the Strand, directed to Z. Z., within three days of this advertisement. The utmost secrecy and honour may be depended ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 • Various
... Chambers having alluded, in his remarks, to Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell, and said that she had sought to give a knife to Margaret Garner, the Court gave permission to Mrs. Blackwell to reply to Colonel C. Mrs. B. preferred not to speak at the bar, but addressed the crowded court-room directly after the adjournment. Her eloquent remarks will be found in the papers of the day. At the close of the hearing, February 14th, the commissioner adjourned his court to the 21st, afterwards to the 26th, ...
— The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims - Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 • American Anti-Slavery Society
... off, put off your mail, ye kings, and beat your brands to dust— A surer grasp your hands must know, your hearts a better trust; Nay, bend aback the lance's point, and break the helmet bar— A noise is in the morning winds, but not the noise of war! Among the grassy mountain paths the glittering troops increase— They come, they come!—how fair their feet,—they come ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association


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