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n.
counter or place where drinks are sold
1) to manage, operate, run a bar
2) to stop at a bar (on the way home); to drink at the bar; to drop into a bar
3) a cash (AE); cocktail; coffee (BE); gay; open ('free'); public (BE); salad; saloon (BE); singles bar
barrier
4) the color bar
5) a bar to (a bar to success)
barrier in a law court
6) at the bar (the prisoner at the bar; to be tried at the bar)
7) before the bar (of justice)
the profession of barrister, trial lawyer
(esp. BE)
8) to be admitted, called to the bar
9) to read for the bar
metal strip used as a barrier
10) behind bars ('in prison') (he was put behind bars)
strip used in gymnastics
11) a horizontal bar
12) parallel bars
13) on the bar (to work out on the bar)
handrail used by ballet dancers
14) at the bar (to warm up at the bar)
metal strip used in a suspension system
15) a torsion bar
lever on a typewriter
16) a space bar
oblong piece
17) a candy; chocolate bar
musical measure
18) to hum; play; sing a few bars
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v.
1) (D; tr.) ('to exclude') to bar from (he was barred from the competition)
2) (K) ('to forbid') they barred his participating