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selection
Noun
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A person makes a selection when a person chooses a smaller number of things from a larger group of things.
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A selection of things is different things that have been chosen or that you can choose from.
The window of the store shows a selection of the things you can buy in the store.
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Selection is a process where the best adapted life forms survive and the others die out.
Charles Darwin was a scientist who wrote about natural selection.
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In Australia, a selection was an area of land which a farmer could choose to buy.
The first thing he had to do was clear the trees of his selection.
bar
Noun
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A bar is a place that sells alcoholic drinks.
I'm going to drink beer at the bar.
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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.
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A bar is a box-shaped piece of something.
You can buy a bar of soap, or a bar of gold.
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A bar is a long, hard thing that looks like a stick.
The prisoner was kept behind bars in the jail.
bar
Verb
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To bar is to stop someone from doing something; to prohibit.
I was barred from entering the club.
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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
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except; not including
He's the fastest runner in the world bar none.