barnoun [ C ]
uk/bɑːr/us/bɑːr/bar noun [ C ] (DRINKING PLACE)
A1 a place where drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, are sold and drunk, or the area in such a place where the person serving the drinks stands:
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- As a general rule, we don't allow children in the bar.
 - You'll find her in the bar almost every evening about six o'clock.
 - The hotel bar is open to non-residents.
 - She roamed around America for a year, working in bars and restaurants.
 - She fell into a conversation with a man at the bar.
 
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Selling & serving alcoholic drinks
- barkeeper
 - barmaid
 - barman
 - bartender
 - beer garden
 - cut sb off
 - gastropub
 - hostelry
 - innkeeper
 - landlady
 - licensee
 - liquor store
 - lock-in
 - nineteenth
 - public house
 - publican
 - roadhouse
 - saloon
 - saloon bar
 - say when idiom
 
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bar noun [ C ] (LONG PIECE)
B2 a long, thin, straight piece of metal or wood:
B1 a substance that has been made into a solid rectangular shape:
UK The bar of an electric heater is a long, thin wire in the shape of a spring that is wrapped tightly around a tube. When electricity passes through it, it produces heat and red light.
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- He was chomping away on a bar of chocolate.
 - Some maniac was running down the street waving a massive metal bar.
 - a candy bar
 - "Would you get me a bar of chocolate from the kitchen?" "Another one?!"
 - Loop the rope over the bar.
 
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Poles, rods, shafts and sticks
- billy club
 - boathook
 - bollard
 - broomstick
 - cane
 - curtain rail
 - maypole
 - pointer
 - rod
 - rung
 - shaft
 - shooting stick
 - ski pole
 - spoke
 - stake
 - totem pole
 - truncheon
 - utility pole
 - waddy
 - wand
 
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bar noun [ C ] (MUSIC)
US also measure one of the small equal parts into which a piece of music is divided, containing a fixed number of beats:
US UK bar line a vertical line that divides one bar from another in a written piece of music
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Beats or lengths of musical notes
- bar line
 - beat
 - crotchet
 - eighth note
 - half note
 - measure
 - minim
 - octave
 - pause
 - phrase
 - quarter note
 - quaver
 - rest
 - semibreve
 - semiquaver
 - sixteenth note
 - time
 - time signature
 - timing
 - whole note
 
bar noun [ C ] (ON UNIFORM)
US a stripe
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Bands, straps and strips
- band
 - belt
 - binding
 - blindfold
 - collar
 - dog collar
 - duct tape
 - elastic band
 - raffia
 - ribbon
 - rubber band
 - Scotch tape
 - Sellotape
 - strip
 - swathe
 - sweatband
 - tape
 - thong
 - webbing
 - wristband
 
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bar noun [ C ] (PREVENTING)
C2 [ C usually singular ] something that prevents a particular event or development from happening:
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Preventing and impeding
- avert
 - avoid
 - avoidable
 - be a drag on sb/sth idiom
 - block sth out
 - blot
 - blot sth out
 - bottleneck
 - derail
 - fireproof
 - hold out on sb
 - hold sb/sth back
 - holding pattern
 - impede
 - impedimenta
 - prevention is better than cure idiom
 - preventive
 - prohibit
 - pull
 - pull the rug from under sb's feet idiom
 
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Idiom(s)
barverb [ T ]
uk/bɑːr/us/bɑːr/-rr-bar verb [ T ] (PREVENT)
to prevent something or someone from doing something or going somewhere, or to not allow something:
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Forbidding and banning things
- abolish
 - abolitionist
 - ban
 - blacklist
 - bound
 - clean
 - curfew
 - debar
 - deny
 - disallow
 - disqualify
 - forbid
 - nix
 - out of bounds idiom
 - outlaw
 - prohibit
 - prohibition
 - proscribe
 - unauthorized
 - veto
 
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bar verb [ T ] (CLOSE)
to put bars across something, especially to keep it closed:
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Locking and bolting
- batten
 - bolt
 - handcuff
 - latch
 - lock
 - lock (sth) up
 - lock sb in
 - lock sb out
 - lock sth away
 - lockable
 - love lock
 - manacle
 - padlock
 - shut
 - shut sth away
 - under lock and key idiom
 
barpreposition
uk/bɑːr/us/bɑːr/formalexcept:
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Excluding
- acid-free
 - alienate
 - apart
 - barring
 - clannish
 - cut
 - discount
 - excluding
 - exclusion
 - exclusive
 - exclusively
 - freeze sb out
 - hold
 - leave sb out in the cold idiom
 - out of it idiom
 - outside
 - present
 - present company excepted idiom
 - send
 - send sb to Coventry idiom
 
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