What's the difference between bar and fess?

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.

Fess


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Fesse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These details were analysed by computer to identify common factors in the small percentage of patients who present with persistent recurring sinusitis after FESS.
  • (2) This retrospective analysis presents the management and outcome of 16 children (less than 16 years) and 47 adults who had revision FESS.
  • (3) He claimed 99.9% of the transactions were clean, although he did fess up to $14m of accidental dealings.
  • (4) Three different vasoconstricting agents were evaluated during functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) in 57 children.
  • (5) So I think it's time we atheists 'fessed up and admitted that life without God can sometimes be pretty grim.
  • (6) No one in the party will fess up to it, but it often gives the appearance of following what Australian politicians call a "small target strategy", giving away precious little about what it may or may not have planned, so as to give the Tories as little to attack as possible.
  • (7) Preoperative radiologic and intraoperative endoscopic findings of maxillary and ethmoid sinuses were compared in 75 adult patients, in whom 135 chronically inflamed maxillary sinuses were operated using functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).
  • (8) In our institution, 0.05% oxymetazoline is the preferred vasoconstrictor for FESS in children.
  • (9) As a rule, functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is recommended for patients with chronic sinus problems that do not respond to medical treatment.
  • (10) Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) requires cadaver-based practice to acquire the necessary technical expertise.
  • (11) Over the past few months Michael Fallon has repeatedly told the Commons that no British servicemen would be deployed in Syria without another vote: under the pressure of a freedom of information request, Mr Airfix had last Friday been forced to fess up that a few Brits had already flown on US strikes on Syria.
  • (12) To report our experience with the radiographic evaluation of severe complications resulting from the functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) procedure.
  • (13) The other, a 13-year-old girl, with an antro-choanal polyp underwent FESS only.
  • (14) Based on the experiences of these two cases, FESS appears to be very helpful in treating children with choanal polyp and paranasal sinusitis.
  • (15) FESS provides a relatively atraumatic means of removing polyps and creating better sinus drainage.
  • (16) To enable this to be undertaken as a bench-top activity the Edinburgh FESS Training system has been developed.
  • (17) Although the ostiomeatal unit is the central feature in sinonasal inflammatory disease, obstruction of the infundibulum alone or of the sphenoethmoidal recess can cause unique inflammatory patterns of disease that require tailored FESS.
  • (18) Two hundred patients with chronic sinusitis were operated on using functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) techniques.
  • (19) The government has fessed up that four of the country's troubled lenders would need a further €24bn to withstand a worse-than-expected performance by the economy, and even that colossal sum is likely to prove an underestimate.
  • (20) For a period of 3 to 36 months, we followed the recovery of 210 children who underwent FESS between 1986 and 1989.

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