Bar | Mean of bar in English Dictionary

/ˈbɑɚ/

• Noun
• a building or room where alcoholic drinks and sometimes food are served
1. We went to a bar for a drink.
• a counter where alcoholic drinks are served
1. We sat at the restaurant's bar while we were waiting for a table.
• a building or room where a particular food or drink is served
1. a seafood bar
2. a juice/coffee bar

• a straight piece of metal, wood, etc., that is used as a tool, as part of a structure, or to keep people from entering or leaving through a door or window
1. There were bars across all the windows.
2. The door was secured with an iron bar.
3. The pole-vaulter narrowly cleared the bar. [=the long bar that is set at a specific height and that a jumper tries to go over]
4. The company's new software raises the bar for its competitors. [=the company's new software is very good and its competitors will have to produce better software to compete with it]
5. Critics say that he has lowered the bar on what is considered acceptable behavior by politicians. [=he has caused people to accept worse behavior by politicians]
• a solid piece of something that is shaped like a rectangle
1. She bought a chocolate/candy bar.
2. a bar of soap
• a straight line, stripe, or section that is longer than it is wide
1. The bird's tail has an alternating series of white and black bars. [=bands]
2. a menu bar [=a narrow section that is across the screen in a computer program and that shows the names of available menus]
• something that makes it difficult or impossible to do or achieve something
1. His poor attitude was a bar to his success. [=his poor attitude prevented him from succeeding]
• the profession of a lawyer
1. She is a member of the bar. [=she is a lawyer]
2. the American Bar Association
3. She has been called to the bar. [=she has become a lawyer]
• the profession of a barrister
• the test that a person must pass in order to be a lawyer
1. She passed the bar on her first try.
2. the bar exam/examination
• a line in written music that shows where a measure begins
• the beats between two bars in a piece of music
1. I'm not sure I know that song. Can you hum a few bars? [=measures]
• in jail
1. He has been behind bars for 10 years.
• to work as a bartender
1. He tends bar at the restaurant.
• Verb
• 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
1. He barred the door as soon as he got in.
2. All the windows and doors were barred.
3. a barred window
• to put something in a road, path, etc., so that people cannot get by
1. A herd of goats was barring the road.
2. obstacles barring our way
• to prevent or forbid (someone) from doing something
1. Nothing barred them from meeting together.
2. The judge will bar the jurors from talking to reporters.
3. A federal court has barred the group from using the name.
4. Reporters were barred [=excluded] from the meeting. [=reporters were not allowed to go to the meeting]
• to prevent or forbid (something)
1. The decision bars the possibility of additional development in the area.
2. forms of punishment barred by the Constitution
• except for
1. They have lost every match, bar one.