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bar1 /bɑː /noun1A long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon: an iron bar bars on the windows...- ‘I have had iron bars, lumps of wood, bottles, stones and even on old bath thrown into my garden,’ she added.
- A gang of youths terrified bus passengers in Leeds last night after going on the rampage with weapons including an iron bar and a bat.
- The door was tall wood with metal bars supporting it.
Synonyms rod, pole, stake, stick, batten, shaft, shank, rail, pale, paling, spar, strut, support, prop, spoke, crosspiece, girder, beam, boom 1.1An amount of food or another substance formed into a narrow block: a bar of chocolate gold bars...- One young man had his life dramatically changed by the tour as he entered the vegan lifestyle, departing from a life of meat, chocolate bars, and fast food.
- He bought an orange and a bar of chocolate, and glanced over a newspaper.
- You remove it from its confines and caress and touch it as if it's a bar of gold.
Synonyms block, slab, cake, tablet, brick, loaf, wedge, lump, chunk, hunk, cube, ingot, nugget, piece 1.2A band of colour or light: bars of sunlight shafting through the windows...- His monumental canvases, with their interlocking bars of earthy colour, reflect his early life as well as later influences.
- He pulled on the headlights, and the beams cut into the darkness, solid bars of light in the smoke-filled air.
- I look at the bars of light coming in through the blind.
1.3British The heating element of an electric fire.The boss, for instance, has a lovely one: bright orange, like the bar on an electric fire....- Mum had spent half an hour making toast for everybody, by sticking slices of bread on the end of a fork and holding them in front of the two bars on the electric fire.
- It was a small room, but even so the single bar of the electric fire, glowing bright orange beside its pale neighbour, fought hard to take the chill away.
1.4 ( the bar) The crossbar of a goal: Clark’s shot hit the bar...- They controlled most of the play and hit the bar, but a goal escaped them.
- The conditions were very difficult, with a swirling wind, and Joe Deane hit the bar when a goal would have settled us down.
- The attempt went over the bar and Bergkamp hit the deck but he was able to continue after treatment.
1.5British A metal strip below the clasp of a medal, awarded as an additional distinction: he was awarded a second bar to his DSO...- He was awarded a bar to his gold medal for exceptional services.
- A bar to his military medal was awarded in July of the following year after he had been promoted to sergeant.
- Further awards of the same decoration were shown by a bar on the ribbon of the cross or medal.
1.6A sandbank or shoal at the mouth of a harbour or an estuary: the bar to the estuary of the River Eske...- That means thousands of boaters who rely on these multiple-use ports face the bleak prospect of shoaling channels and dangerous bars at river mouths.
- Many of the rivers had bars at their mouths and navigation was hazardous: over the years a number of ships were lost as a result.
- Trout in particular spawn in the fall and can be found in deep water at this time. You can find them on bars, shoals, rocks and fingers.
Synonyms sandbank, shoal, bank, shallow, reef, ridge, ledge, shelf 1.7 Heraldry A charge in the form of a narrow horizontal stripe across the shield.The barrulet is the heraldic diminutive of the bar, and is generally one fourth the width of the bar....- It may be noted that a bar is never shown alone; there are always two or more.
2A counter in a pub, restaurant, or cafe across which drinks or refreshments are served: standing at the bar...- 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.
- Her joy turned to dismay as he walked round to the other side of the bar, served her drink, took her money and then served the next customer.
- She insisted that she had agreed to come to St Lucia to serve drinks behind a bar, nothing else.
Synonyms counter, table, buffet, stand 2.1A room in a pub, restaurant, or hotel in which alcohol is served: the oak-panelled bar of the Lion [as modifier]: bar stools...- Away from hotel bars, hotel rooms and suburban shopping centres, the England squad are a well-behaved bunch and as such have made no lasting enemies on the pitch.
- The hotel will feature meeting rooms, a restaurant and lounge, hotel bar, function rooms and a leisure centre.
- The rest of the hotel comprises a main bar, lounge, dining room, function room and main kitchen.
2.2An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served: a small friendly bar open all day...- Your new alcohol policy would allow bars to open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- There's a busy nightlife in the area, with many bars and clubs open into the early hours.
- Over the last ten years Belfast has undergone some major cosmetic surgery and new pubs and bars have opened while existing ones have expanded.
Synonyms hostelry, tavern, inn, wine bar, taproom; British pub, public house, free house, tied house; Scottish howff; Canadian beer parlour; Australian/New Zealand hotel; Spanish cantina; German bierkeller informal watering hole British informal local, boozer North American informal gin mill historical alehouse, pot-house, taphouse, beerhouse North American historical saloon 2.3 [with modifier] A small shop, stall, or area in a department store that serves refreshments or provides a specified service: a sandwich bar...- In clothes stores, sandwich bars, gyms and coffee shops we face a constant barrage of background music - music we notice but rarely listen to.
- The space can be subdivided for use as a convenience store and coffee shop or a sandwich bar.
- Our city needs thriving locals far more than it needs another video shop or burger bar.
3A barrier or restriction to an action or advance: political differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship...- The trust's acquisition of the buildings would not be a bar to such moves, as the organisation frequently has tenants in its buildings.
- It was the first time the church's most senior cleric had said that the sexuality of ministers should not act as a bar to their appointment.
- He also insisted his privileged background would not act as a bar to winning over new Conservative supporters in Scotland.
Synonyms obstacle, impediment, hindrance, obstruction, check, stop, block, hurdle, barrier, stumbling block, handicap, restriction, limitation 3.1 Law A plea suspending an action or claim in a lawsuit.The plaintiff was advised of the statutory bar to his claim by letter in October 2001, but proceeded anyway....- But that is a practical problem which cannot constitute a legal bar on a claim.
- In that sense, section 10 constituted only a procedural bar to his claim.
4 Music Any of the short sections or measures, typically of equal time value, into which a piece of music is divided, shown on a score by vertical lines across the stave: the opening bars of the first hymn...- He magically evoked the Alpine mystery of the score's opening bars.
- Only the bass line and six bars of melody had survived, possibly from the slow movement of a Trio Sonata.
- When the last bars of the music had died away, he shouted, ‘Sing that again!’
5 ( the bar) A partition in a court room, now usually notional, beyond which most people may not pass and at which an accused person stands: the prisoner at the bar...- His handling of the funds when they did arrive gave rise to vigorous debate at the bar.
- The lawyers sit at the bar table facing the magistrate and the defendant sits with his or her lawyer.
- In an unprecedented move Magistrate Nicholas got up from the bench and sat at the bar table with the witness and the accused.
5.1British A rail marking the end of each chamber in the Houses of Parliament: he had to appear at the Bar of the House for a reprimand by the Speaker...- If agreed, a member is ordered by the House to go to the bar of the House of Lords.
- At the other end of the chamber is the bar, at which the members of the Commons attend to hear the speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
- An inscription on the wall towards the west end shows the position of the Bar of the old House, by which the Lobby was marked off from the Chamber itself.
6 (the Bar) The profession of barrister: his dismissal from the Singapore Bar...- He was a Junior Counsel in 1968, Senior Counsel in 1982, and was called to the English Bar in 1981.
- He didn't like the law and was never called to the Bar.
- The same year he would be called to the bar and later established a small practice in Montreal.
6.1British Barristers collectively.The Bar Council provides representation and services for the Bar, and guidance on issues of professional practice....- The senior judges in England and Wales are drawn almost exclusively from the Bar.
Synonyms barristers, advocates, counsel 6.2North American Lawyers collectively. 6.3A particular court of law.He was admitted to the Bar of Western Australia at the Supreme Court in Perth on November 2. verb (bars, barring, barred) [with object]1Fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars: she bolted and barred the door...- The rest of you will remain here, bar the doors and windows, and afterwards stay well away from the windows.
- We quickly shut and barred the two doors and the window, and dispatched the three hornets that followed us in.
- The doors had been barred shut, then pried open, allowing us to slip inside.
Synonyms bolt, lock, fasten, padlock, secure, latch, deadlock, block, barricade, obstruct; Scottish & Irish sneck, snib 2Prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something or from going somewhere: journalists had been barred from covering the elections...- The 1986 World Cup hero was barred from leaving Argentina after family members blocked his early efforts to return to Cuba.
- Another measure to limit consumption was a return to the ‘carless’ days of the late 1970s when one day a week a vehicle owner was barred from using his or her car.
- He spoke out after two frail and elderly patients were left alone and distressed waiting hours for ambulances to take them home after their wives were barred from travelling with them.
Synonyms prohibit, debar, preclude, forbid, ban, interdict, inhibit; exclude, keep out; obstruct, hinder, restrain, check, block, impede, stop; Law enjoin, estop 2.1Forbid someone from undertaking (an activity): the job she loved had been barred to her...- So it can come as a shock to discover that some of these activities can be barred to them as the years slip by.
- There is now hardly any sphere of activity legally barred to women and, in this sense, every male bastion has been stormed.
- He does not smoke, drink or take drugs, so those recourses would have been barred to him.
2.2Exclude (something) from consideration: nothing is barred in the crime novel...- These issues are barred from consideration by this Court.
- In 1984 Congress undercut the exclusionary rule which barred evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
- Nothing is barred from consideration as long as it does not obtrude into the lives of others.
2.3 Law Prevent or delay (an action) by objection.If I were wrong in my conclusion that on the principal claims Mr Shaker had no cause of action, the proceedings would still be barred on the basis that the damages were purely reflective of the company's loss....- For one thing, if she waits, her claim might end up being barred by the statute of limitations.
- In any event, any new claim by the company would be barred by limitation as it is well over six years since the events giving rise to any claim.
3Mark (something) with bars or stripes: his face was barred with light...- The backs and wings of females are finely barred with light and dark brown.
- Its back is speckled with light markings, and its tail is barred with black.
- The upperparts are brown with a black patch streaked with white, and the tail is barred with black.
preposition chiefly British1Except for: his kids were all gone now, bar one...- He has started every league game bar one.
- ‘Well that would be nice,’ he replies, enigmatic bar the faint hint of a smile.
- Here, on just four walls, is as good a cross-section of post-war figurative art as you are ever likely to see in any gallery bar the Tate.
Synonyms except (for), apart from, but (for), other than, besides, aside from, with the exception of, short of, barring, excepting, excluding, omitting, leaving out, save (for), saving informal outside of 1.1 Horse Racing, British Except the horses indicated (used when stating the odds). Phrasesbar none be called (or go) to the Bar be called within the Bar behind bars lower (or raise or lift) the bar not have a bar of set the bar OriginMiddle English: from Old French barre (noun), barrer (verb), of unknown origin. There are few more functional words than bar. It gives us bars of soap and chocolate, bars serving drinks, bars that we can put criminals behind, and in Britain members of the Bar who can help put them there. The word entered English from French in the early Middle Ages, but beyond that its history is unknown. Its earliest use was for fastening a gate or door. People used it for various kinds of barrier (Late Middle English), a related word. In a court a bar marked off the area around the judge's seat, where prisoners were brought to be charged, hence prisoner at the bar. At the Inns of Court, where lawyers were trained in England, a bar separated students from those qualified, and a student was ‘called to the bar’ to become a fully fledged barrister (Late Middle English). From this the Bar came to mean the whole body of barristers, or the barrister's profession, as early as the 16th century. At this time a bar was also a barrier or counter from which drink was served. From barring doors and barring a person's way, it took a small step for bar to mean ‘to prohibit’, as in no holds barred (mid 20th century), and ‘except’: bar none (early 18th century) means ‘without exception’.
Rhymesaargh, Accra, afar, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa, bah, barre, bazaar, beaux-arts, Bekaa, bête noire, Bihar, bizarre, blah, Bogotá, Bonnard, bra, cafard, café noir, Calabar, car, Carr, Castlebar, catarrh, Changsha, char, charr, cigar, comme ci comme ça, commissar, coup d'état, de haut en bas, devoir, Dhofar, Directoire, Du Bois, Dumas, Dunbar, éclat, embarras de choix, escritoire, fah, famille noire, far, feu de joie, film noir, foie gras, Fra, galah, gar, guar, guitar, ha, hah, ha-ha, Halacha, hurrah, hussar, huzza, insofar, Invar, jar, je ne sais quoi, ka, kala-azar, Kandahar, khimar, Khorramshahr, knar, Krasnodar, Kwa, la-di-da, lah, Lehár, Loire, ma, mama, mamma, mar, Mardi Gras, ménage à trois, mirepoix, moire, nam pla, Navarre, noir, objet d'art, pa, pah, Panama, papa, par, Pará, Paraná, pas, pâté de foie gras, peau-de-soie, pietà, Pinot Noir, pooh-bah, poult-de-soie, pya, rah, registrar, Saar, Salazar, Sana'a, sang-froid, scar, schwa, Seychellois, shah, Shangri-La, shikar, ska, sol-fa, spa, spar, star, Starr, Stranraer, ta, tahr, tar, tartare, tata, tra-la, tsar, Twa, Villa, voilà, waratah, yah bar2 /bɑː /nounA unit of pressure equivalent to a hundred thousand newtons per square metre 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....- In both cars, an electric pump compresses air into the tank at a pressure of 300 bars.
- Seals were water-tight even at pressures of several bars, but did not interrupt water flow in the xylem.
OriginEarly 20th century: from Greek baros 'weight'. |