Bar is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BAR in dictionary:

VERB:
• to obstruct or prevent
• fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars
• prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something or from going somewhere
• forbid someone from undertaking (an activity)
• exclude (something) from consideration
• prevent or delay (an action) by objection.
• mark (something) with bars or stripes
• prevent from entering; keep out
• render unsuitable for passage
• expel, as if by official decree
• secure with, or as if with, bars
• fasten or secure with a bar
PREPOSITION:
• except for
• except the horses indicated (used when stating the odds).
NOUN:
• a long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon
• an amount of food or another substance formed into a narrow block
• a band of colour or light
• the heating element of an electric fire.
• the crossbar of a goal
• a metal strip below the clasp of a medal, awarded as an additional distinction
• a sandbank or shoal at the mouth of a harbour or an estuary
• a charge in the form of a narrow horizontal stripe across the shield.
• a counter in a pub, restaurant, or cafe across which drinks or refreshments are served
• a room in a pub, restaurant, or hotel in which alcohol is served
• an establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served
• a small shop, stall, or area in a department store that serves refreshments or provides a specified service
• a barrier or restriction to an action or advance
• a plea suspending an action or claim in a lawsuit.
• any of the short sections or measures, typically of equal time value, into which a piece of music is divided, shown on a score by vertical lines across the stave
• a partition in a court room, now usually notional, beyond which most people may not pass and at which an accused person stands
• a rail marking the end of each chamber in the Houses of Parliament
• the profession of barrister
• barristers collectively.
• lawyers collectively.
• a particular court of law.
• a unit of pressure equivalent to a hundred thousand newtons per square metre or approximately one atmosphere.
• rigid usually straight length of metal, wood, etc, longer than it is wide or thick
• 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; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.
• An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.
• Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
• A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
• Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
• The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.
• The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
• The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
• A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff\'s action.
• Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
• A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.
• An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
• A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.
• A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
• The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
• The part of the crust of a horse\'s hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.
• A drilling or tamping rod.
• A vein or dike crossing a lode.
• A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
• A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
• To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
• To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff\'s recovery; -- sometimes with up.
• To except; to exclude by exception.
• To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to exclude

Words related to BAR

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Words that contain BAR

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How to use BAR in a sentence

• I believe it is very generally admitted, now, that our pulpit and bar are at the very summit of these two professions.
• But what excuse had he to give to the bar of enlightened posterity for the invasion of Egypt? The idea originated with himself.
• If you would like to know how Billy feels about it, Esmeralda, bend your chin toward your throat, and imagine a bar of iron placed across your tongue and pulling your head upward.
• He watches the tide of discussion, and dashes into it at once with all the tact of the forum or the bar.
• From the horizontal bar a light gate was hung, and the various contestants gave exhibitions of Vaulting.
• The sloop-yacht had been afraid to venture it, and was skirting back and forth on the inner edge of the bar.
• In the following year he studied law and was admitted to the bar.
• It is gratifying to know that all this has been done away with, and that the needle has only to be inserted into the bar, and fastened by turning a small screw.
• It was further defended by a thick iron bar in the centre.
• It was a lovely moon, and every tree threw a black bar across the road.
• After his accession to the throne of France, Henry gave her in marriage to Henri de Lorraine, Duc de Bar.
• Yet we feel that in trampling upon heroic Belgium, who dared to bar the gate, Germany has outraged the conscience of the world and sealed her ultimate doom.
• At Newport, at Bar Harbour, at Lenox, at Southampton, she made a record.
• Why, he must have the best lawyers at the Bar, and fee them like princes.
• CHAPTER II A SURPRISE It was early morning, and the Bar O Ranch slept, heedless of the keen late-autumn air that had in it just a faint, brisk hint of the fall frosts to come.
• It was the wisdom of God that entailed upon the union of the white and dark-skinned the bar sinister.
• They were examined at the bar of the house, and delivered an account of their grievances in writing.
• You remember Knowles of Georgia? I found him keeping bar in Sacramento.
• The knife is constructed of steel plates, riveted to a flat bar of iron.
• It seems the robber left behind him one end of a bar of iron.
• In order to retain the bar securely in position in the groove, there should be two caps fitted over it and set-screwed to the wooden base.
• Sterling, John Swing, David Taylor, Bayard Taylor, Emily Taylor, Henry Temple Bar Tennyson, Alfred Thaxter, Mrs.
• He graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1806, and studied law at Groton with the Honorable Timothy Bigelow, and after his admission to the bar settled here as a lawyer.
• Inside the bar, which was arranged like a great window with sliding panels, stood a little man with bright black eyes, wearing a white coat.

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