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 Definitions for barred: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barred (b[aum]rd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Barring.] [ F. barrer. See Bar, n.]
1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
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2. 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.
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He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened
to bar it in its dungeon. --Hawthorne.
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3. To except; to exclude by exception.
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Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me
By what we do to-night. --Shak.
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4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
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For the sake of distinguishing the feet more
clearly, I have barred them singly. --Burney.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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bar
n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served
over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at
the bar" [syn: barroom, saloon, ginmill, taproom]
2: a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a
hot dog and a coke at the bar"
3: a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening
or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows
to prevent escape"
4: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;
"the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song"
[syn: measure]
5: an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal;
"it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar"
6: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving";
"money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of
influenza" [syn: prevention]
7: (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes
per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have
used bar for one dyne per square centimeter"
8: a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along
a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the
river"
9: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a
particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in
New Jersey" [syn: legal profession, legal community]
10: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of
chocolate" [syn: cake]
11: a portable .30 caliber magazine-fed automatic rifle operated
by gas pressure; used by United States troops in World
War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn: {Browning
automatic rifle}]
12: a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as
they perform exercises
13: a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire
with three bars"
14: (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom
where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried;
"spectators were not allowed past the bar"
v 1: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from
membership in the club" [syn: debar, exclude]
2: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade
the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block,
blockade, stop, block off, block up]
3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his
own country" [syn: banish, relegate]
4: secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant:
unbar]
[also: barring, barred]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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barred
adj 1: firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and
doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the
house properly secured" [syn: bolted, fast, latched,
locked, secured]
2: preventing entry or exit or a course of action; "a
barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded harbor"
[syn: barricaded, blockaded]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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barred
See bar
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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130 Moby Thesaurus words for "barred":
absurd, banded, banned, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded,
bound, brinded, brindle, brindled, cabined, caged, cancellated,
cloistered, closed-in, closed-out, confined, contraband,
contrary to reason, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled,
cramped, cribbed, crossbarred, debarred, deported, ejected,
enclosed, excluded, exiled, expelled, fenced, filigreed, forbade,
forbid, forbidden, grated, gridded, hedged, hemmed, hopeless,
illegal, illicit, immured, impossible, imprisoned, incarcerated,
inconceivable, jailed, laced, lacelike, lacy, latticelike,
leaguered, left out, liquidated, listed, logically impossible,
marbled, marbleized, meshed, meshy, mewed, mullioned, netlike,
netted, netty, nonpermissible, not in it, not included,
not permitted, not possible, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed,
oxymoronic, paled, paradoxical, penned, pent-up, plexiform,
precluded, preposterous, prohibited, purged, quarantined, railed,
restrained, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform,
ridiculous, ruled out, ruled-out, self-contradictory, shut out,
shut-in, streaked, streaky, striatal, striate, striated, strigate,
strigose, striolate, striped, stripy, tabby, taboo, tabooed,
unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban, unimaginable, unlawful,
unlicensed, unpermissible, unsanctioned, unthinkable, untouchable,
veined, verboten, vetoed, walled, walled-in, watered
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