(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.
Shoal
Definition:
(n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
(v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
(a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
(n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
(n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
(v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
(v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.
Example Sentences:
(1) China and the Philippines had a tense maritime standoff at a shoal west of the main Philippine island of Luzon early this year.
(2) Among their choicest memories from last year, they tell me, are watching shoals of goldfish swim down their street, and coming home to find Derrick's model boat collection bobbing on the deluge.
(3) Philippine fishing vessels are back in the waters of Scarborough Shoal.
(4) Christian Rynning-Tønnesen, chief executive of Statkraft, the Norwegian power utility that has invested in Sheringham Shoal, said the UK's wind resources and regulatory regime made it the most attractive location in Europe for offshore wind investors.
(5) As additional criteria the shoaling behaviour of the fishes is quantified and evaluated by the system.
(6) The MCS said the best choice now is Cornish mackerel caught by "hand-line", with British, European or Norwegian mackerel that is "pelagic-caught" – caught in shoals – as the best alternative.
(7) The people of Great Britain, with the co-ordination of a shoal of mullet, didn’t just put the Lewisham and Greenwich choir in with a bullet, they made sure to buy enough of Bieber’s own work that his generous spirit would be rewarded with chart spots two, three and five.
(8) But now, of course, everyone's doing it – and if you can really contemplate spending an entire evening out of your painfully short life watching Ocean Colour Scene plod through Moseley Shoals then, honestly, get some help.
(9) Last week, a shoal of headlines further indicated that for our young (and the United Nations defines "young" as under 25), the report card continues to read: "Could do very much better."
(10) Manila regards Second Thomas Shoal, which lies 105 nautical miles (195 km) southwest of the Philippine region of Palawan, as being within its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
(11) Isolated individuals detached from the shoals become immobile from the moment in which they separate from the bacterial group they belonged to ("immunobilization reaction").
(12) Davey attended the opening of the UK's latest offshore windfarm off the north Norfolk coast on Thursday, a £1.2bn projected called Sheringham Shoal .
(13) It was like a horror movie … he kept trying to talk,” Shoals said.
(14) He was widely regarded as having the right experience, deft touch and nous to navigate the shoals and shifting currents of continental politics that would buffet the British ship of state as it left its European berth.
(15) The highly automated system allows to quantify and assess changes in the behaviour patterns of a small shoal of test fishes.
(16) He saw a shoal of porpoises and a stormy petrel skimming over the waves and read "Humboldt's glowing accounts of tropical scenery.
(17) His team has seen humpbacks “lunge feeding”, where the whales rise up under giant shoals and take hundreds of thousands of pounds of fish into their mouths in one gulp, filtering out the seawater through their baleen grills and swallowing the fish.
(18) The film was shot near coral reefs that fringe the tiny Pescador Island where huge shoals of sardines draw sharks to the area.
(19) The Philippine navy is quietly reinforcing the hull and deck of a rusting ship it ran aground on a disputed South China Sea reef in 1999 to stop it breaking apart, determined to hold the shoal as Beijing creates a string of man-made islands nearby.
(20) If there are more bilateral negotiations between China and other claimants then a Trump administration, heavily occupied with North Korea and Isis, won’t be elevating disputes over shoals and reefs in south-east Asia.