| bar | (noun) the act of preventing | Synonyms: prevention |
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| (noun) a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon | - |
| (noun) an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal | - |
| (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: barroom, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
| (noun) a counter where you can obtain food or drink | - |
| (noun) a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) | Synonyms: cake |
| (noun) (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried | - |
| (noun) a heating element in an electric fire | - |
| (noun) a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises | - |
| (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: streak, stripe |
| (noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | Synonyms: measure |
| (noun) the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction | Synonyms: legal community, legal profession |
| (noun) a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore | - |
| (noun) (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter | - |
| (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: debar, exclude |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| (verb) secure with, or as if with, bars | - |
| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, relegate |
| bulbar | (adjective) involving the medulla oblongata | - |
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| busbar | (noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: bus |
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| cinnabar | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, vermilion, vermillion |
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| (noun) large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort | Synonyms: Callimorpha jacobeae, cinnabar moth |
| (noun) a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury | - |
| crossbar | (noun) long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over | - |
| (noun) a horizontal bar that goes across something | - |
| crowbar | (noun) a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge | Synonyms: pry, pry bar, wrecking bar |
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| debar | (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, exclude |
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| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| (verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: suspend |
| disbar | (verb) remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action | - |
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| drawbar | (noun) a strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled | - |
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| durbar | (noun) the room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur | - |
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| handlebar | (noun) the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle | - |
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| isobar | (noun) (meteorology)an isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time | - |
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| liquidambar | (noun) any tree of the genus Liquidambar | - |
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| (noun) aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree | Synonyms: sweet gum |
| lobar | (adjective) of or relating to or affecting a lobe | - |
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| lumbar | (adjective) of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones | - |
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| microbar | (noun) the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter | Synonyms: bar absolute, barye |
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| millibar | (noun) a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar | - |
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| minibar | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: cellaret |
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| sambar | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambur |
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| sandbar | (noun) a bar of sand | Synonyms: sand bar |
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| sidebar | (noun) (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing | - |
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| (noun) a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story | - |
| solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
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| spinnbar | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnable |
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| tollbar | (noun) a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid | Synonyms: tollgate |
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| unbar | (verb) remove a bar from (a door) | - |
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