bar
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(verb) prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" |
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Synonyms: debar, exclude |
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Related Words: disallow, forbid, interdict, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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(verb) secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" |
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Related Words: fasten, fix, secure, slat |
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Antonyms: unbar |
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(noun) a rigid piece of metal |
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Related Words: belaying pin, bolt, carpenter's level, chinning bar, core, crossbar, deadbolt, fret, grab bar, handlebar, handspike, heaver, implement, lever, rail, rails, rotor, shackle, slice bar, towel bar, towel rail, track |
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(noun) usually metal placed in windows to prevent escape |
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Related Words: impediment, impedimenta, obstruction |
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(noun) a counter where you can purchase food or drink |
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Related Words: buffet, cash bar, counter, oyster bar, salad bar, snack bar, snack counter, soda fountain, sushi bar, wet bar |
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(noun) (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried |
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Related Words: rail, railing |
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(noun) a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore |
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Related Words: barrier, ridge, sand bar, sandbar |
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(noun) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter |
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Related Words: pressure unit |
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(noun) the act of preventing |
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Synonyms: prevention |
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Related Words: averting, crushing, debarment, debarring, disqualification, disqualifying, forestalling, hindrance, interference, interfering, obviation, preclusion, prophylaxis, quelling, save, stifling, suppression |
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(noun) a room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter |
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Synonyms: barroom, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
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Related Words: barrelhouse, cocktail lounge, honky-tonk, room, sawdust saloon, speakeasy |
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(noun) a block of soap or wax |
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Synonyms: cake |
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Related Words: block |
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(noun) notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; written followed by a vertical bar |
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Synonyms: measure |
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Related Words: musical notation |
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(noun) the body of individuals qualified to practice law |
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Synonyms: legal community, legal profession |
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Related Words: community, profession |
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(verb) expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" |
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Synonyms: banish, relegate |
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Related Words: expel, kick out, spike, throw out |
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(verb) render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets" |
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Synonyms: barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade |
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Related Words: block, block off, close, close off, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, occlude, shut off |
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