What's the difference between bar and car?

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.

Car


Definition:

  • (n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
  • (n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.
  • (n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.
  • (n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
  • (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
  • (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.
  • (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • (2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (3) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
  • (4) "It has done so much to educate people about low emissions cars.
  • (5) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (6) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
  • (7) Car manufacturers, for example, are not allowed to insist that buyers only get their car serviced by them.
  • (8) After all, you can only drive one car at a time or go on one holiday at a time.
  • (9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (10) At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb at a funeral in Jaramana at the end of August.
  • (11) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
  • (12) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
  • (13) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
  • (14) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.
  • (15) "[Zimmerman] shouldn't have gotten out of that car.
  • (16) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
  • (17) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
  • (18) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
  • (19) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
  • (20) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .

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