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Meaning bar meaning

What does bar mean?
Definitions in simple English

bar Noun

— A bar is a place that sells alcoholic drinks. I'm going to drink beer at the bar. — A bar is the counter or bench in a hotel or bar where drinks are sold. The waitress stood behind the bar and poured our drinks. — A bar is a box-shaped piece of something. You can buy a bar of soap, or a bar of gold. — A bar is a long, hard thing that looks like a stick. The prisoner was kept behind bars in the jail.

bar Verb

— To bar is to stop someone from doing something; to prohibit. I was barred from entering the club. — To bar is to lock a door or window, or to block it so others can not enter. I barred the door to stop her leaving the room.

bar Preposition

— except; not including He's the fastest runner in the world bar none.

bar

— noun a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar — verb prevent from entering; keep out He was barred from membership in the club — verb (= barricade, block, stop) render unsuitable for passage block the way barricade the streets stop the busy road — 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 — noun a counter where you can obtain food or drink he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar — noun an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar — verb secure with, or as if with, bars He barred the door — noun (= prevention) the act of preventing there was no bar against leaving money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza — noun musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song — verb (= banish) expel, as if by official decree he was banished from his own country — 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 — noun a heating element in an electric fire an electric fire with three bars — noun a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises — 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 — 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 — noun the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey — noun a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) a bar of chocolate — noun (= stripe) 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

BAR

— noun (= Browning automatic rifle) a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War

Synonyms bar synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as bar?

bar English » English

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BAR English » English

Browning automatic rifle

Topics bar topics

What do people use bar to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity

Music
Social behavior Social activity Music

Compose music
Social behavior

Law
Social behavior Law

Court of law
Daily life Food Types of food Alcoholic beverage

Drunk
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with metal
States Quantity Whole, complete

Piece
States

Parts of things
Grammar Connected with, related Coordinate relations But

Except
Person Life Stage of life

Initiation
Daily life Food Types of food

Prepared food

Conjugation bar conjugation

How do you conjugate bar?

bar · verb

Examples bar examples

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Simple sentences

I have never sung, and never will sing, in a karaoke bar.
Was there anybody else in the bar?
I work at a bar.
Was anyone in the bar?
Several men got angry with Tom in the bar and Tom told them he wasn't afraid to take them on.
Tom bought drinks for everyone at the bar.
Tom owned a bar on Park Street.
We had a bar of gold stolen.
Rust ate away the iron bar.
John picked a quarrel with college kids near him at the bar.
This bar is a popular student hangout.
The owner of this bar never sells liquor on credit.
A woman was sitting on a stool in a bar.
Three of my friends, besides me, were admitted to the bar.
Mr Nakamura went bar hopping in Tokyo.
She was admitted to the bar.
His poor educational background was not a bar to his advancement.
I saw him last night in the bar and he was really drunk.
We drank shochu at the karaoke bar.
That bar is one of his favorite haunts.
On Friday evenings, a group of us with spouses working overseas meet at Chuck's Bar and Grill.
My band will perform this week at Chuck's Bar and Grill. Please come and see us.
Tom would have missed the train if he had stopped to buy a chocolate bar.
The bartender threw Tom out of the bar.
Tom threw Mary out of the bar.
Tom and John went to the bar last night to pick up some girls.

Movie subtitles

I'll have a candy bar or something.
That's almost as sad as a girl coming to a strange bar by herself.
Talk is not on the bar menu, but we could ask.
Do you want to, like, I don't know, go to another bar, get a drink, or hang out at my place, or.
Well, we were at the bar this morning, watching the game; did you check there?
The bar.
The bar, the bar!
Bar, bar, bar, bar, bar.
Always run through a bar.
That's when I was serving Ms. Delange at the bar.
I was at the bar, having a drink with a friend, Flamberger.
We were at the bar.
Find some other bar.
The gentleman needs a new bar. We're not classy enough.
You have everything you need at the bar.
I was accepted by the bar in 1928.
Do you expect me to let this house turn into a cheap bar?
Let's go down to the bar.
A large room on the front, and with a bar.
With a private bar, exclusively mine.
Good business for the saloon bar, eh, Mr Hall?
Wolf, man the capstan bar.
I dreamed I was selling my bar, and the prick wouldn't negotiate!
Remember, if Leslie asks, we weren't at the bar.
We were breaking up a disturbance at a bar - and we turned around.
Take care of the bar, Jerry. Thanks, I'll see myself out.

News and current affairs

They bar threats against, and harassment of, individuals.
By raising the bar for defamation charges, that decision ensures that American journalists can hold public officials accountable.
Hong sets the bar low.
When we watch a sprinter set a new Olympic record in the hundred meter dash, it's not the shoes he or she wears that command our admiration. Nor is it the coaching received or the energy bar consumed just before the event.
In many cases, traditional cultural norms prevent girls from obtaining any real education; lead far too many to marry and bear children while still adolescents; and bar women even from opening a bank account.
Even in the wake of the financial crisis that erupted in 2008, they trip off the word processors of a hundred submissions challenging the so-called Volcker rule (which would bar banks from making proprietary investments).
If I need a hundred or so calories in a hurry, I prefer a banana, a handful of nuts, or, for that matter, a delicious candy bar.
The US and Europe are united this time, and can effectively cut off Iran from world banking, bar Iranian leaders from traveling to the West, and stop exports to Iran of everything but food and medicine.
They left before the news was over to go to a bar to celebrate.
Many Shia insist that the last vestiges of Saddam's elite must be purged, but many Sunnis argue that the process is intended to bar them from good jobs and political influence.
It is therefore imperative to develop new detection technologies that will work in poorer countries, and that complement existing systems such as bar codes.
Last November, Musharraf effectively declared war on both the bar and the judiciary, dismissing all judges who refused to recognize his declaration of a state of emergency, purportedly aimed at protecting the nation from terrorists.
The result was the detention of most of the senior judiciary, as well as bar association presidents across the country and all leading lawyers and human rights activists seeking to defend judicial independence.
New York also has its KGB Bar.
In some states, where a single felony conviction is enough to bar the offender from ever being able to vote again, over one quarter of African American males are disenfranchised.
On the Tuesday afternoon when the US played Belgium in the knockout round, every bar in Aspen, Colorado, was packed.
They bar threats against, and harassment of, individuals. They forbid libel and fraud.
Additionally, the new constitution would effectively bar Suu Kyi, from running for president because she was married to a foreigner.
The promise of being recognized at the airline counter, ushered to the front of the line, and, yes, looking like a big shot at the airport bar.
Moreover, such a formula should bar provocative actions by either side, including military exercises, such as those staged recently by China and, jointly, by the US and Japan.
Formal complaints to the justice ministry and the national bar association weren't even acknowledged, let alone answered.
Likewise, China may have set the bar too high concerning the language that it has demanded in any general apology.
Add a higher bar for government bailouts, and these stronger incentives would induce private financial institutions and investors to take responsibility before disaster strikes.
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