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bar


bar - noun

  • a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
  • a counter where you can obtain food or drink
  • a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
  • musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
  • an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
  • the act of preventing
  • (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
  • a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
  • the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
  • a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
  • a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
  • 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
  • a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
  • a heating element in an electric fire
  • (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried

    • bar - verb

    • prevent from entering; keep out
    • render unsuitable for passage
    • expel, as if by official decree
    • secure with, or as if with, bars

    bar - thesaurus

    banish   barricade   barroom   block   blockade   cake   debar   exclude   ginmill   measure   prevention   relegate   saloon   stop   streak   stripe   taproom  

    Scrabble score for bar

    b is 3 a is 1 r is 1
    Scrabble score = 5

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