prevention, bar
(noun) the act of preventing; “there was no bar against leaving”; “money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza”
bar
(noun) a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; “there were bars in the windows to prevent escape”
bar
(noun) an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; “it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar”
bar
(noun) a counter where you can obtain food or drink; “he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar”
bar
(noun) (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; “spectators were not allowed past the bar”
bar
(noun) a heating element in an electric fire; “an electric fire with three bars”
bar
(noun) a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom
(noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; “he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar”
cake, bar
(noun) a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); “a bar of chocolate”
stripe, streak, bar
(noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; “a green toad with small black stripes or bars”; “may the Stars and Stripes forever wave”
measure, bar
(noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; “the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song”
bar
(noun) a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; “the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river”
bar
(noun) (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; “unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter”
bar, debar, exclude
(verb) prevent from entering; keep out; “He was barred from membership in the club”
bar
(verb) secure with, or as if with, bars; “He barred the door”
barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar
(verb) render unsuitable for passage; “block the way”; “barricade the streets”; “stop the busy road”
banish, relegate, bar
(verb) expel, as if by official decree; “he was banished from his own country”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
(countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1/4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
(typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
Hyponyms: pipe, strikethrough
(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
(physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
Synonyms: barroom, ginshop, pub (British), public house, tavern, Thesaurus:pub
The counter of such premises.
A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
(by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
An establishment offering cosmetic services.
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
Synonyms: ban, prohibition
Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
(programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
(UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
(UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
(US, law) "the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
(law, metonym, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
(telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
Synonym: measure
(music) One of those musical sections.
(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
(metaphorical) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
(football, most codes) The crossbar.
(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.
(geography, nautical, hydrology) 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).
(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
A city gate, in some British place names.
(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
(farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
bar
(grammar, X-bar theory) Pronunciation of ÂŻ, a symbol indicating an X-bar.
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).
(transitive) To prohibit.
(transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
• (obstruct): block, hinder, obstruct
• (prohibit): ban, interdict, prohibit
• (lock or bolt with a bar)
• See also hinder
bar
Except, other than, besides.
(horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
• (except): apart from, barring, except for, excluding, other than, save; see also except
bar (plural bars)
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
• ㍴
• ABR, ARB, Arb., RBA, Rab, abr., arb, bra
Bar
A coastal town, the capital of Bar Municipality in southern Montenegro.
A municipality of southern Montenegro.
Shortening.
Bar
Nickname from the female given name Barbara.
• ABR, ARB, Arb., RBA, Rab, abr., arb, bra
Source: Wiktionary
Bar, n. Etym: [OE. barre, F. barre, fr. LL. barra, W. bar the branch of a tree, bar, baren branch, Gael. & Ir. barra bar.
1. A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door. Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood. Ex. xxvi. 26.
2. An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.
3. Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. Must I new bars to my own joy create Dryden.
4. A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
5. Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
6. (Law) (a) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court. (b) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence. (c) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession. (d) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.
7. Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
8. A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.
9. (Her.)
Definition: An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
10. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.
11. (Mus.)
Definition: A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
Note: A double bar marks the end of a strain or main division of a movement, or of a whole piece of music; in psalmody, it marks the end of a line of poetry. The term bar is very often loosely used for measure, i.e., for such length of music, or of silence, as is included between one bar and the next; as, a passage of eight bars; two bars' rest.
12. (Far.) pl. (a) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed. (b) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.
13. (Mining) (a) A drilling or tamping rod. (b) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
14. (Arch.) (a) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. (b) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar. Bar shoe (Far.), a kind of horseshoe having a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury.
– Bar shot, a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat.
– Bar sinister (Her.), a term popularly but erroneously used for baton, a mark of illegitimacy. See Baton.
– Bar tracery (Arch.), ornamental stonework resembling bars of iron twisted into the forms required.
– Blank bar (Law). See Blank.
– Case at bar (Law), a case presently before the court; a case under argument.
– In bar of, as a sufficient reason against; to prevent.
– Matter in bar, or Defence in bar, a plea which is a final defense in an action.
– Plea in bar, a plea which goes to bar or defeat the plaintiff's action absolutely and entirely.
– Trial at bar (Eng. Law), a trial before all the judges of one the superior courts of Westminster, or before a quorum representing the full court.
Bar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barred (p. pr. & vb. n. Barring.] Etym: [ F. barrer. See Bar, n.]
1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
2. To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.
3. To except; to exclude by exception. Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to- night. Shak.
4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines. For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly. Burney.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 November 2024
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
