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bar
Verb
bar (third-person singular simple present bars, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)
- (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- ""One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, Im after a prize to-night, / But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light; / Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, / Then look for me by moonlight, / Watch for me by moonlight, / Ill come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way.""
- (transitive) To prohibit.
- I couldnt get into the nightclub because I had been barred
- (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
- bar the door
Noun
bar (plural bars)
- A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater (US), a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- bar of chocolate
- bar of soap
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. (For example, turning A into Ⱥ.)
- A business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
- The counter of such a premises.
- Step up to the bar and order a drink.
- A similar device or simply a closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- (computing, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
- (law, ""the Bar"") Short for the Bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- Hes studying hard to pass the Bar this time; hes failed it twice before.
- (law, ""the Bar"") A collective term for lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
- (law, loosely, ""the Bar"") The legal profession of lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (music) One of those musical sections.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
- (soccer) The crossbar
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, âChelsea 1 - 0 Boltonâ, BBC:
- Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cechs bar.
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- (nautical) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
- A generic unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
- There were no bars so I didnt get your text.
- A city gate in UK places names, such as Potters Bar.
Adjective
bar (neuter bart, definite and plural bare)
- bare, naked
- sheer, pure
Adverb
bar
- extremely (only in a negative sense)
Preposition
bar
- Except, with the exception of.
- He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
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