1. A relatively long, straight, rigid piece of solid material used as a fastener, support, barrier, or structural or mechanical member.
2. A solid oblong block of a substance, such as soap or candy.
3. A rectangular block of a precious metal.
4. sports A horizontal bar.
5. sports A horizontal rod that marks the height to be cleared in high jumping or pole vaulting.
6. A standard, expectation, or degree of requirement: a leader whose example set a high bar for others.
7. something that impedes or prevents action or progress. see synonyms at obstacle.
8. A ridge, as of sand or gravel, on a shore or streambed, that is formed by the action of tides or currents.
9. A narrow marking, as a stripe or band.
10. A narrow metal or embroidered strip worn on a military uniform indicating rank or service.
11. chiefly british A small insignia worn on a military decoration indicating that it has been awarded an additional time.
12. heraldry A pair of horizontal parallel lines drawn across a shield.
13. law the nullification, defeat, or prevention of a claim or action.
14. law the process by which nullification, defeat, or prevention is achieved.
15. the railing in a courtroom enclosing the part of the room where the judges and lawyers sit, witnesses are heard, and prisoners are tried.
16. A place of judgment; a tribunal.
17. law attorneys considered as a group.
18. law the profession of law.
19. music A vertical line drawn through a staff to mark off a measure.
20. music A measure.
21. variant of barre.
22. A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.
23. an establishment or room having such a counter.
24. to fasten securely with a long, straight, rigid piece of material.
25. to shut in or out with or as if with bars.
26. to obstruct or impede; block.
27. to keep out; exclude. see synonyms at hinder1.
28. to rule out; except.
29. to mark with stripes or bands.
30. law to stop (a claim or action) by objection.
31. except for; excluding: this was your best performance, bar none.
32. behind bars in prison.
33. A unit of pressure equal to one million (106) dynes per square centimeter.

1. A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
2. A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the us its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
3. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
4. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
5. A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. (for example, turning A into Ⱥ.)
6. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
7. the counter of such a premises.
8. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
9. in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc., a premises or counter serving non-alcoholic drinks.
10. an official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
11. A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
12. the railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
13. short for the bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
14. A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
15. A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
16. one of those musical sections.
17. A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
18. the crossbar
19. the central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
20. an addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
21. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
22. A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (fm 55-501).
23. one of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
24. an informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
25. A city gate in uk places names, such as 'potters bar.'
26. to obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
27. to prohibit.
28. to lock or bolt with a bar.
29. to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe
30. except, with the exception of.
31. denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
32. A non-si unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals.

1. 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.
2. an indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness.
3. anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
4. A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
5. any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges.
6.
7. 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.
8. the place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
9. the whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
10. A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.
11. any tribunal.
12. 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.
13. an ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
14. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
15. A vertical line across the staff. bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
16.
17. the space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
18. 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.
19.
20. A drilling or tamping rod.
21. A vein or dike crossing a lode.
22.
23. A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
24. A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
25. to fasten with a bar.
26. to restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; ; -- sometimes with up.
27. to except; to exclude by exception.
28. to cross with one or more stripes or lines.

1. to fasten with a bar, or as with a bar.
2. to hinder; obstruct; prevent; prohibit; restrain.
3. to except; exclude by exception.
4. to provide with a bar or bars; mark with bars; cross with one or more stripes or lines.
5. to make into bars.
6. except; omitting; but: as, to offer to bet two to one against any horse bar one.
7. an obsolete (middle english) or dialectal form of bare.
8. A middle english preterit of bear.
9. in any betting transaction, to exclude one of the possibilities: as, to bet 4 to 1, bar one, in a horse-race, meaning that a certain horse is not included.
10. an abbreviation of barometer.
11. A piece of wood, metal, or other solid matter, long in proportion to its thickness, used for some mechanical purpose; a rod: as, a capstan-bar; the bars of a grate; the splinter-bar of a vehicle; especially, such a piece of wood or metal used as an obstruction or guard: as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door or window.
12. anything which obstructs, hinders, or impedes; an obstruction; an obstacle; a barrier.
13. A barrier— at the entrance to a city, or between the city proper and its suburbs; hence, the gate at which the barrier was placed in former times, as temple bar in london, now removed, and the existing medieval bars of york.
14. at a toll-house; a toll-gate. also called toll-bar.
15. an accumulation forming a bank obstructive to navigation or to the flow of water.
16. A narrow point of land jutting out into the water. in placer-mining, an accumulation of sand or gravel in or near the bed of a stream.
17. in law: the railing inclosing the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice.
18. the place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
19. the practising members of the legal profession in a given community; all those who have the right to plead in a court; counsel or barristers in general, or those present in court.
20. A stoppage or defeat in an action or suit by countervailing the alleged right of action.
21. in england, a railing or barrier which separates a space near the door from the body of either house of parliament, beyond which none but members and clerks are admitted.
22. figuratively, any tribunal: as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of god.
23. that portion of a tavern, inn, coffee-house, or the like, where liquors, etc., are set out; the counter over which articles are served in such an establishment.
24. A band or stripe: as, a bar of light.
25. in farriery, the upper part of the gums of a horse between the grinders and tusks, which bears no teeth, and to which the bit is fitted.
26. in music, a line drawn perpendicularly across the staff, dividing it into equal measures of time and marking the place of the strong accent; hence, the space and notes included between two such lines; the portion of music represented by the included notes. see also double bar, below.
27. in com.: an ingot, a lump, or a wedge, as of gold or silver, from the mines, run in a mold, and unwrought.
28. A short piece of bar-iron about half a pound in weight, used as a medium of traffic with african negroes.
29. in printing: the lever by which the pressure is applied in a hand-press.
30. the middle cross-piece of a printers' chase.
31. in heraldry, a horizontal stripe crossing the field, narrower than the fesse, and occupying usually one fifth or less of the field: one of the nine ordinaries.
32. in a bridle, the mouthpiece connecting the checks.
33. in a rifle-sight, a plate in the form of a segment, with its upper or chord edge horizontal, and secured in a ring.
34. in saddlery, one of the side pieces connecting the pommel and cantle of a saddle.
35. an acanthopterygian european fish, Sciæna aquila. also called maigre.
36. A dialectal form of bear.
37. A middle english form of baron.
38. in england, the space behind the bar, often large enough to form a small office. also called bar-parlor.
39. in anatomy: A general term for any of the cranial arches, such as Meckel's cartilage, or the hyoid and branchial arches, which have the form of more or less continuous rods or bars.
40. less often used for portions of the cranium which have a rod-like shape, as the jugal or postorbital bars. in this sense synonymous with *arcade or architecture
41. in meteorology, a long cigar-shaped cloud, generally nearly stationary, but sometimes moving broadside on across the sky; specifically, the stationary cloud to the leeward of the helm-cloud over the cross-fell range in england during easterly winds.
42. the division between the two tables of a backgammon-board on which captured pieces are placed.
43. specifically, in violin-making, the same as bass-bar.
44. same as pennant-bar.

1. expel, as if by official decree
2. 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
3. musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
4. a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
5. a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
6. (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
7. the act of preventing
8. (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
9. prevent from entering; keep out
10. a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
11. secure with, or as if with, bars
12. a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
13. a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
14. the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
15. render unsuitable for passage
16. a counter where you can obtain food or drink
17. a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
18. a heating element in an electric fire
19. an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal