What is the meaning of bar?

noun

• A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
  • usage: "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar"
  • synonyms: barroom, saloon, ginmill, taproom
• A counter where you can obtain food or drink.
  • usage: "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar"
• A rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon.
  • usage: "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape"
• Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats.
  • usage: "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song"
  • synonyms: measure
• An obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal.
  • usage: "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar"
• The act of preventing.
  • usage: "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"
  • synonyms: prevention
• Meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter. (
  • usage: "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter"
• A submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore.
  • usage: "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river"
• The body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.
  • usage: "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey"
  • synonyms: legal profession, legal community
• A narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background.
  • usage: "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave"
  • synonyms: stripe, streak
• A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax. )
  • usage: "a bar of chocolate"
  • synonyms: cake
• 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: Browning automatic rifle
• A horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises.
• A heating element in an electric fire.
  • usage: "an electric fire with three bars"
• Law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried. (
  • usage: "spectators were not allowed past the bar"

verb

• Prevent from entering; keep out.
  • usage: "He was barred from membership in the club"
  • synonyms: debar, exclude
• Render unsuitable for passage.
  • usage: "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
  • synonyms: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up
• Expel, as if by official decree.
  • usage: "he was banished from his own country"
  • synonyms: banish, relegate
• Secure with, or as if with, bars.
  • usage: "He barred the door"