(interj.) An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because it is of interest to identify new drugs able to increase the percentage of REM sleep in mentally retarded subjects, we studied the effects of butoctamide hydrogen succinate (BAHS) on nocturnal sleep in eight young institutionalized Down's syndrome subjects.
(2) I have only one commander-in-chief as we speak.” Hamat Bah, one of the party leaders in Barrow’s coalition, said he thought Buhari had the best chance of changing Jammeh’s mind, as he was a military man.
(3) I’m sure the person had a valid reason but it should be clear that the Ka’bah should not suddenly be surrounding by whirring Segways.” A hoverboard is a levitating board that was popularised by Marty McFly in the Back to the Future films.
(4) It had been expected that the government would lift the ban, imposed in 2010, when schools reopened following the end of the Ebola crisis but the education minister, Minkailu Bah, reaffirmed it .
(5) This time we’re also with the civil society activist, Coumba Bah.
(6) Measurements of blood plasma ACTH, hydrocortisone, STH, somatostatin, insulin, glucagon levels and plasma renin activity in 70 patients with borderline hypertension (BAH) and in 20 normal male subjects have revealed increased ACTH, hydrocortisone, and somatostatin levels, elevated plasma renin activity, and reduced STH and insulin levels in the patients.
(7) High systolic pressure in the pulmonary artery and predominant hyperkinetic central hemodynamics were observed in the normotensives with a family history of HD and patients with BAH.
(8) No significant differences were discovered in the central hemodynamics in persons with BAH and initial stage of essential hypertension.
(9) Of 93 patients with primary aldosteronism seen during a 20 year period, 52 had an aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) removed (five more await surgery), 14 had bilateral adrenal hyperplasia (BAH), three had glucocorticoid-suppressible hyperaldosteronism (GSH), one had adrenal carcinoma and 18 are yet to be categorized.
(10) Ba Odah’s attorney, Omar Farah of the Center for Constitutional Rights , accused the US of playing “Russian roulette” with Ba Odah’s life and called its treatment of Bah Odah “one of the most appalling chapters in Guantánamo’s sordid history”.
(11) 2.58am BST Greens say bah Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott Let's talk about raising money.
(12) One allegation that emerged from the cache was that BAH had been working with HBGary Federal "to develop software that would allow for the creation of multiple fake social media profiles to infiltrate discussion groups and manipulate opinion on the sites and discredit people, as well as to match personas online with offline identities."
(13) Gary McNair: War on Christmas Anyone who has ever felt like saying “Bah, humbug!” to the John Lewis ad will find a kindred spirit in Gary McNair, playing a Santa working in a down-at-heel Christmas grotto who decides to investigate what Christmas means if you are poor.
(14) TRI exposure decreased the in vitro metabolism of TRI, high-Km benzene aromatic hydroxylase (BAH) activity, and cytochrome P450 content in livers of PB-treated rats with severe hepatic damage.
(15) MAb 1-7-1 against P450IA inhibited EROD (79%), PROD (50%) and high-Km BAH (42%) activities in MC-microsomes.
(16) In persons with border-line arterial hypertension (BAH), the transitory process was marked by the increase of the main parameters as compared with normal persons and patients suffering from essential hypertension.
(17) As a boy growing up in Sierra Leone , Kemoh Bah prized his Michael Jackson T-shirt.
(18) During an 8-hour working day, altered central hemodynamics was shown to be detected both in healthy subjects and BAH patients only at the age of 30-39 years and reflected by higher stroke volume (SV), higher cardiac output (CO) and lower total peripheral resistance (TPR) in healthy subjects and diminished heart rate (HR), CO in BAH patients.
(19) The data obtained indicate the heterogeneity of the patients with BAH and stage I EN according to the response to water and water and salt administration.
(20) MAbs 2-66-3, 4-7-1 and 4-29-5, all against P450IIB, had no effect on 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) but inhibited the activities of high-Km BAH (greater than or equal to 58%) and 7-pentoxyresorufin O-depentylase (PROD) (greater than or equal to 96%) in PB-treated microsomes.
Bar
Definition:
(n.) 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; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.
(n.) An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.
(n.) Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
(n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
(n.) Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
(n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
(n.) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.
(n.) Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
(n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.
(n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
(n.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A drilling or tamping rod.
(n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
(n.) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(n.) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
(n.) To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
(n.) To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.
(n.) To except; to exclude by exception.
(n.) To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
(3) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(4) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(5) The spatial resolution of a NaI(T1), 25 mm thick bar detector designed for use in positron emission tomography has been studied.
(6) Experimental animals pressed the S+ bar at a significantly higher rate than the S- bar.
(7) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(8) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(9) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
(10) When S+ followed cocaine, stereotyped bar-pressing developed with markedly increased responding during the remainder of the session.
(11) Originally she was barred from seeing Filip altogether.
(12) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(13) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
(14) Mbugua said fewer people were coming to the bars and restaurants at night.
(15) In many countries, male same-sex relationships are punishable by 10 years behind bars; in at least two, the penalty is death.
(16) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
(17) My boyfriend and I headed to a sushi bar to celebrate.
(18) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(19) The transversalis fascia of the floor of the femoral canal turns down to form the medial wall of the venous compartment of the femoral sheath, and has the support of the curved edge of the lacunar ligament which effectively bars the femoral canal from entering the thigh.
(20) Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the cut-off results from the charity's newly adopted criteria barring grants to organisations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities.