(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.
Betty
Definition:
(n.) A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.
(n.) A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.
(n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask.
Example Sentences:
(1) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(2) While Discovery has not made a major acquisition in the UK, aside from a relatively small investment to takeover Betty, the independent producer that makes shows including The Undateables , Zaslav is not afraid to make big bets when the opportunity presents itself.
(3) Betty was put in charge of health education and community medicine.
(4) Betty Williams , Mairead Corrigan and John Hume deserve consideration.
(5) I am sure that Catherine Shoard realises that Betty is probably a very friendly pony ( Opinion , 4 February).
(6) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.
(7) Channel 4's Ugly Betty had 500,000 viewers, a 5% share, between 10.35pm and 11.35, with another 42,000 on Channel 4 +1.
(8) They are up against Sarah Lancashire (Betty Blue Eyes), Scarlett Strallen ( Singin' in the Rain ) and Kate Fleetwood (London Road).
(9) Next month marks the 50th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique , Betty Friedan's hugely influential study that helped to spark that pervasive second wave of feminism that – for all its faults and stuttering incompleteness – shaped the western world as most of us know it today.
(10) "[However], it becomes logical that if your ideas sell well it would be silly not to look at the footprint [of Betty]."
(11) Cited author searches were conducted in Nursing Citation Index to determine its utility in locating clinical studies that apply the conceptual frameworks of Dorothea Orem, Callista Roy, Martha Rogers, Betty Neuman, and Dorothy Johnson.
(12) Born to a white Dublin girl, Betty McGrath, and a Nigerian father who disappeared soon after his conception, Paul was given up by his traumatised mother when he was only four weeks old.
(13) When Public Enemy were starting out, he consulted Black Power veterans such as Huey Newton, Malcolm X’s widow Betty Shabazz and the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan.
(14) Taylor was probably the most famous star to be treated for alcohol and drug abuse problems at the Betty Ford clinic in California.
(15) The show was left with a final cast of Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden, plus a genuine BBC announcer, Douglas Smith, who had somehow become an essential part of the series.
(16) The report charges Mr Clinton with lying about his conversations with his friend Vernon Jordan concerning Ms Lewinsky, and with trying to obstruct justice by attempting to influence the grand jury testimony of his secretary Betty Currie.
(17) And it used to be where young, middle-class Detroiters like Betty Booth, wearing their Sunday best, would come for weekend outings.
(18) You know, sweet little British labels such as Mulberry, Betty Jackson, Whistles – labels that pretty much bellow, "Nothing to fear her!
(19) This paper describes the introduction of the Betty Neuman Systems Model to fourth year baccalaureate students at the University of Ottawa School of Nursing, Canada.
(20) The family moved to the Crank with their three daughters, Betty then eight, Petra seven, and Joan, the youngest, three.