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barnoun a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wideall of the prison's windows are partially covered with steel bars billet, rod arbor, beam, board, crossbar, crossbeam, girderband, stripbloom, ingot, slab, stick a line or long narrow section differing in color from the backgroundthe cat had a bar of white down her throat a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow)more than one boater has run aground on that treacherous bar of sand in the river bank, drift, mound snowbank, snowdriftembankment, sandbarheap, hill, mass, mountain, stack, tuft a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premisesa bar that serves meals as well as drinks barroom, café(also cafe), cantina(Southwest), dramshop, gin mill, grogshop(chiefly British), pub, public house(chiefly British), saloon, taproom, tavern, watering hole, watering place alehouse, barrelhouse, bistro, bottle club, brewpub, cabaret, dive, joint, nightclub, roadhouse, speakeasy, sports bar, wineshoppackage store an assembly of persons for the administration of justicerather than try and convict the alleged murderer in the mass media, let justice be done at the bar something that makes movement or progress difficultthe complication of the molecule is the biggest bar to reproducing it balk, block, chain, clog, cramp, crimp, deterrent, drag, embarrassment, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, inhibition, interference, let, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, shackles, stop, stumbling block, trammel catch, hitch, rub, snagbarrier, blockade, blockage, brick wall, stone wallarrest, bit, brake, check, constraint, curb, hobble, rein, restraintembargo, stoppagedelay, holdup, stallburden, cumber, loaddanger, hazard, peril, reefadversity, difficulty, disadvantage, drawback, hardship catalyst, goad, impetus, incentive, spur, stimulant, stimulusadvantage, break, edgeaid, assistance, benefit, boost, handmaiden(also handmaid), help something set up as an example against which others of the same type are comparedwe need to raise the bar for what is acceptable behavior in this situation barometer, benchmark, criterion, gold standard, grade, mark, measure, metric, par, standard, touchstone, yardstick case, example, instanceaverage, norm, ruleacme, apex, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, zenith aberration, abnormality, deviation barprepositionnot includingeveryone in the company is invited, bar none apart from, aside from, barring, beside, besides, but, except(also excepting), except for, excluding, exclusive of, other than, outside, outside of, save, saving barverbto make stripes onbarred the fence with white strips band, streak, stripe blaze to order not to do or use or to be done or usedcorporal punishment has long been barred in most public schools ban, enjoin, forbid, interdict, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe deter, discourage, dissuadeclamp down (on), crack down (on), crush, put down, quash, quell, repress, silence, snuff (out), squash, squelch, subdue, suppresshalt, preclude, prevent, stopembargo, exclude, rule out, shut outdebar, deprive, disallow, reject, repudiate, vetobridle, check, curb, inhibit, rein (in), restrainblock, hinder, impede, obstruct allow, let, permit, suffer approve, endorse(also indorse), sanctionauthorize, license(also licence), warrantabet, advance, cultivate, encourage, forward, further, nourish, nurture, promote, supportbid, command, orderabide, bear, brook, countenance, endure, tolerate to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion ofbeach-goers are barred from walking in roped-off sections of the beach to protect nesting birds ban, close out, count (out), debar, eliminate, except, exclude, freeze out, rule out, shut out blackball, blacklist, excommunicate, ostracizebanish, deport, exile, expel, oust, throw outobviate, preclude, prevent, prohibitblock, hinder, impede, obstructcease, discontinue, halt, suspenddeter, stave off, ward (off)check off, disregardcomb (out), weed (out) close one's doors to admit, include accept, embrace, entertain, receive, take in, welcomeunban to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry pointthe bikeway was barred by a huge fallen tree barricade, block (off), blockade, close (off), guard, wall (off) curtain (off), screen (off)dike, fence, gate, hedgebolt, lockobstruct open, unbar reopen, unblock, unbolt in the 12th century |