Definitions For Bar

noun

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

verb

• Prevent from entering; keep out
• Secure with, or as if with, bars
• Render unsuitable for passage
• Expel, as if by official decree