Dictionary Definition
bar
Noun
1 a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks
are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at
the bar" [syn: barroom,
saloon, ginmill, taproom]
2 a counter where you can obtain food or drink;
"he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar"
3 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"
4 musical notation for a repeating pattern of
musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the
song" [syn: measure]
5 an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the
top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the
bar"
6 the act of preventing; "there was no bar
against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and
prevention of influenza" [syn: prevention]
7 (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"
8 a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a
river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in
the river"
9 the body of individuals qualified to practice
law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in
New Jersey" [syn: legal
profession, legal
community]
10 a block of solid substance (such as soap or
wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: cake]
11 a portable .30 caliber magazine-fed automatic
rifle operated by gas pressure; used by United States troops in
World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn:
Browning automatic rifle]
12 a horizontal rod that serves as a support for
gymnasts as they perform exercises
13 a heating element in an electric fire; "an
electric fire with three bars"
14 (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"
Verb
1 prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred
from membership in the club" [syn: debar, exclude]
2 render unsuitable for passage; "block the way";
"barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off,
block
up]
4 secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred
the door" [ant: unbar]
[also: barring, barred]barred adj
1 firmly fastened or secured against opening;
"windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the
house properly secured" [syn: bolted, fast, latched, locked, secured]
2 preventing entry or exit or a course of action;
"a barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded harbor" [syn:
barricaded, blockaded]barred See bar
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Having bars, striped.
- Prevented.
- He is barred by term limits from running for a third term in office.
Translations
Having bars, striped
Prevented
Verb
barred- past of bar
- He barred the door at evening.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absurd,
banded, banned, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, brinded, brindle, brindled, cabined, caged, cancellated, cloistered, closed-in,
closed-out, confined,
contraband, contrary
to reason, cooped,
cordoned, cordoned off,
corralled, cramped, cribbed, crossbarred, debarred, deported, ejected, enclosed, excluded, exiled, expelled, fenced, filigreed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, grated, gridded, hedged, hemmed, hopeless, illegal, illicit, immured, impossible, imprisoned, incarcerated, inconceivable, jailed, laced, lacelike, lacy, latticelike, leaguered, left out, liquidated, listed, logically impossible,
marbled, marbleized, meshed, meshy, mewed, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, nonpermissible, not in
it, not included, not permitted, not possible, off limits, out of
bounds, outlawed,
oxymoronic, paled, paradoxical, penned, pent-up, plexiform, precluded, preposterous, prohibited, purged, quarantined, railed, restrained, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, ridiculous, ruled out,
ruled-out, self-contradictory, shut out, shut-in, streaked, streaky, striatal, striate, striated, strigate, strigose, striolate, striped, stripy, tabby, taboo, tabooed, unallowed, unauthorized, under the
ban, unimaginable,
unlawful, unlicensed, unpermissible, unsanctioned, unthinkable, untouchable, veined, verboten, vetoed, walled, walled-in, watered