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Word | Bar |
Afrikaans Meaning | kroeg, staaf |
a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter / A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening / a long shaped piece of hard material, usually metal or wood. The same word also means a counter where you can buy drink / 0 / a: a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) b: a solid piece or block of material that is longer than it is wide a bar of gold a candy bar c: a usually rigid piece (as of wood or metal) longer than it is wide that is used as a handle or support; especially : a handrail used by ballet dancers to maintain balance while exercising / something that obstructs or prevents passage, progress, or action: as a: the destruction of an action or claim in law; also : a plea or objection that effects such destruction b: an intangible or nonphysical impediment c: a submerged or partly submerged bank (as of sand) along a shore or in a river often obstructing navigation / a(1): the railing in a courtroom that encloses the place about the judge where prisoners are stationed or where the business of the court is transacted in civil cases (2): court, tribunal (3): a particular system of courts (4): an authority or tribunal that hands down judgment b (1) : the barrier in the English Inns of Court that formerly separated the seats of the benchers or readers from the body of the hall occupied by the students (2): the whole body of barristers or lawyers qualified to practice in the courts of any jurisdiction (3): the profession of barrister or lawyer / a straight stripe, band, or line much longer than it is wide: as a: one of two or more horizontal stripes on a heraldic shield b: a metal or embroidered strip worn on a usually military uniform especially to indicate rank (as of a company officer) or service / a: a counter at which food or especially alcoholic beverages are served b: barroom c: shop 2b / a: a vertical line across the musical staff before the initial measure accent b: measure / a lace and embroidery joining covered with buttonhole stitch for connecting various parts of the pattern in needlepoint lace and cutwork / standard wants to raise the bar for approving new drugs / in jail / to put a bar or a set of bars in front of a door, window, etc., so that people cannot go in or out of it / to put something in a road, path, etc., so that people cannot get by / to prevent or forbid (someone) from doing something / used in the phrase bar none to emphasize that a statement is completely true / except for, | |
Usage | ⇒ The whole group is here bar two ⇒ He barred the door as soon as he got in. ⇒ ‘I have had iron bars , lumps of wood, bottles, stones and even on old bath thrown into my garden,’ she added. ⇒ A bar across the road |
Synonyms | block, check, ban, hinder, impede, stop, exclude, hindrance, impediment, obstruct, barrier, prohibit, restrain, debar, forbid, obstacle, prevent, inhibit, obstruction, outlaw, |
Antonyms | allow, advantage, aid, permit, unbar, admit, advocate, help, loosen, open, abet, accredit, assent, assist, assistance, authorize, benefit, catalyst, countenance, edge, |
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