(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.
Rounder
Definition:
(n.) A tool for making an edge or surface round.
(n.) One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
(n.) An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football.
Example Sentences:
(1) British commentators, famously, do not nurture stars; they mistrust the able and reserve especial snootiness for the multi-able, as if to be a good all-rounder is, yet, to be a master of none.
(2) For someone who has called out Miguel Cotto, Liam Smith made surprisingly hard work of beating an opponent whose first bout of 2015 was a four-rounder in a small hall in Lancashire.
(3) Granule cells differentiation, as judged by the transformation of polymorph, darkly staining small cells into rounder, lightly staining larger granule cells, follows the same gradient from the external dentate limb to the internal dentate limb.
(4) As an all-rounder, he is the best right-sided player on the planet.
(5) Multivariate analysis of variance showed that culture time and subject group had significant effects: changes during macrophage development were less marked in the patient group, nucleoli were fewer, rounder and possibly smaller than normal.
(6) In his dust blue suit and shimmering yellow tie, he is rounder than he was in 2008 (eating too many of his children's leftovers).
(7) While some of the cells had their secretory granules located basally and a long narrow part extending toward the lumen, many appeared rounder and the plane of the section did not indicate that they extended to the lumen.
(8) Nasa geologists said the rounder shape of some of the pebbles suggested they had travelled long distances from above the crater rim.
(9) Incubation of stromal cells with a mixture of estradiol, medroxyprogesterone acetate and relaxin, at a concentration reported to yield maximal stimulation of PRL production, resulted in changes from elongated to rounder cells, approx.
(10) The better the impression material fills the ear canal, the rounder the tip of the impression, and the rounder the tip of the earmould made from the impression.
(11) For greater long or short axes of the detected nodes, or for rounder nodes, the metastasis rate was higher.
(12) The early word was that GTA IV would scale back the excesses of San Andreas and provide a rounder, more succinctly inhabited game experience.
(13) These small cells were larger and rounder than those of the SCG.
(14) The jazz-loving, heroically cigarette-smoking, Hull City-supporting Plater was a populist all-rounder with more than 300 assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and films (his screenplay for DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy, directed by Christopher Miles in 1970, is probably his best) as well as journalism, six novels, broadcasting and teaching.
(15) Over this pressure range, the bulges in the spindle-shaped structures in the monolayer became rounder in shape and the number of openings on the surface was apparently greater at 22 mm Hg than at 15 and 8 mm Hg.
(16) Those in the remaining renal tubules, which are lipid-free, were rounder and less uniform in size.
(17) Two centennial CD releases encapsulate the arguments: one out this week is a 3CD set from the Smithsonian Institution and the other is an extraordinary project in the pipeline at Rounder Records that will culminate in seven CDs and a book by the label's founder, Bill Nowlin.
(18) The stromal fraction cells were initially fusiform and proliferated; in culture, they accumulated lipid inclusions, became rounder and acquired an eccentric nucleus.
(19) The dividing trophozoite has daughter cells that are rounder than the pleomorphic, non-dividing trophozoites.
(20) Samples from the forage-crop region contained more organic material, a greater water soluble fraction and had particles that were, on average, smaller and rounder than particles from the grain district.