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barsnounpl. of bar 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 billets, rods arbors, beams, boards, crossbars, crossbeams, girdersbands, stripsblooms, ingots, slabs, sticks 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 banks, drifts, mounds snowbanks, snowdriftsembankments, sandbarsheaps, hills, masses, mountains, stacks, tufts a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premisesa bar that serves meals as well as drinks barrooms, cafés(also cafes), cantinas(Southwest), dramshops, gin mills, grogshops(chiefly British), public houses(chiefly British), pubs, saloons, taprooms, taverns, watering holes, watering places alehouses, barrelhouses, bistros, bottle clubs, brewpubs, cabarets, dives, joints, nightclubs, roadhouses, speakeasies, sports bars, wineshopspackage stores 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 balks, blocks, chains, clogs, cramps, crimps, deterrents, drags, embarrassments, encumbrances, fetters, handicaps, hindrances, holdbacks, hurdles, impediments, inhibitions, interferences, lets, manacles, obstacles, obstructions, shackles, stops, stumbling blocks, trammels catches, hitches, rubs, snagsbarriers, blockades, blockages, brick walls, stone wallsarrests, bits, brakes, checks, constraints, curbs, hobbles, reins, restraintsembargoes, stoppagesdelays, holdups, stallsburdens, cumbers, loadsdangers, hazards, perils, reefsadversities, difficulties, disadvantages, drawbacks, hardships catalysts, goads, impetuses, incentives, spurs, stimulants, stimuliadvantages, breaks, edgesaids, assistances, benefits, boosts, handmaidens(also handmaids), 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 barometers, benchmarks, criteria(also criterions), gold standards, grades, marks, measures, metrics, pars, standards, touchstones, yardsticks cases, examples, instancesaverages, norms, rulesacmes, apexes(or apices), meridians, peaks, pinnacles, summits, zeniths aberrations, abnormalities, deviations barsverbpresent tense third-person singular of barto make stripes onbarred the fence with white strips bands, streaks, stripes blazes to order not to do or use or to be done or usedcorporal punishment has long been barred in most public schools bans, enjoins, forbids, interdicts, outlaws, prohibits, proscribes deters, discourages, dissuadesclamps down (on), cracks down (on), crushes, puts down, quashes, quells, represses, silences, snuffs (out), squashes, squelches, subdues, suppresseshalts, precludes, prevents, stopsembargoes, excludes, rules out, shuts outdebars, deprives, disallows, rejects, repudiates, vetoesbridles, checks, curbs, inhibits, reins (in), restrainsblocks, hinders, impedes, obstructs allows, lets, permits, suffers approves, endorses(also indorses), sanctionsauthorizes, licenses(also licences), warrantsabets, advances, cultivates, encourages, forwards, furthers, nourishes, nurtures, promotes, supportsbids, commands, ordersabides, bears, brooks, countenances, endures, tolerates to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion ofbeach-goers are barred from walking in roped-off sections of the beach to protect nesting birds bans, closes out, counts (out), debars, eliminates, excepts, excludes, freezes out, rules out, shuts out blackballs, blacklists, excommunicates, ostracizesbanishes, deports, exiles, expels, ousts, throws outobviates, precludes, prevents, prohibitsblocks, hinders, impedes, obstructsceases, discontinues, halts, suspendsdeters, staves off, wards (off)checks off, disregardscombs (out), weeds (out) closes one's doors to admits, includes accepts, embraces, entertains, receives, takes in, welcomesunbans to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry pointthe bikeway was barred by a huge fallen tree barricades, blockades, blocks (off), closes (off), guards, walls (off) curtains (off), screens (off)dikes, fences, gates, hedgesbolts, locksobstructs opens, unbars reopens, unblocks, unbolts |