Word: bar
Category: bar
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Synonyms: bar
rod, pole, stick, batten, shaft, rail, paling, spar, strut, crosspiece, beam, block, slab, cake, tablet, brick, loaf, wedge, ingot, counter, table, buffet, stand, tavern, cocktail lounge, barroom, taproom, pub, after-hours club, lounge, nightclub, speakeasy, roadhouse, beer hall, boîte, club, inn, rathskeller, cantina, bodega, singles bar, sports bar, watering hole, gin mill, dive, nineteenth hole, public house, saloon, alehouse, obstacle, impediment, hindrance, obstruction, hurdle, barrier, stumbling block, lawyers, barristers, advocates, counsel, counselors, solicitors, sandbar, sandbank, shoal, shallow, reef, ginmill, stripe, streak, measure, prevention, legal profession
Translations: bar
The meaning and "use of": bar
- a long rod or rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon. - ‘I have had iron bars , lumps of wood, bottles, stones and even on old bath thrown into my garden,’ she added.
- a counter across which alcoholic drinks or refreshments are served. - He'll help with your bags, crack jokes, invite you to eat breakfast on his porch and - if things get busy - let you serve drinks at the bar .
- a barrier or restriction to an action or advance. - political differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship
- a measure of music or the time of a piece of music. - He magically evoked the Alpine mystery of the score's opening bars .
- a partition in a courtroom or legislative assembly, now usually notional, beyond which most people may not pass and, in court, at which an accused person stands. - the prisoner at the bar
- the legal profession. - He was a Junior Counsel in 1968, Senior Counsel in 1982, and was called to the English Bar in 1981.
- a unit of pressure equivalent to 100,000 newtons per square meter or approximately one atmosphere. - Nevertheless, to the diver, it still affords a fascinating glimpse of another world - a world so incredibly shallow that it is difficult to surface without at least a hundred bars .
- fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars. - she bolts and bars the door
- prevent or forbid the entrance or movement of. - boulders barred her passage
- mark (something) with bars or stripes. - his face was barred with light
- except for; apart from. - everyone, bar a few ascetics, thinks it desirable
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