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单词 bar
释义

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:

They noticed him going into the hotel bar.
There weren't any free tables, so I sat at the bar.
Why don't you ask the guy behind the bar (= serving drinks there)?

More examples

  • 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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Public entertainment venues

bar noun [ C ] (LONG PIECE)

B2 a long, thin, straight piece of metal or wood:

The gorilla rattled the bars of its cage.

B1 a substance that has been made into a solid rectangular shape:

a bar of soap
a chocolate bar

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.

More examples

  • 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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Patterns and shapes
Heaters & burners

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:

Waltzes have three beats in/to the bar (= in each bar).

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:

A lack of formal education is no bar to becoming rich.

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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)

behind bars

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:

The centre of the town was barred to football supporters.
The incident led to him being barred from the country/barred from entering the country.
I tried to push past her but she barred my way/path (= stood in front of me and prevented me from getting past).

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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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Punishing & punishments

bar verb [ T ] (CLOSE)

to put bars across something, especially to keep it closed:

We barred the door to stop anyone getting into the room.

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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/formal

except:

Everyone is leaving the village, bar the very old and ill.
They're the best songwriters of this century, bar none (= no one else is better).

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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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Idiom(s)

be (all) over bar the shouting

the Barnoun [ S, + sing/pl verb ]

uk/bɑːr/us/bɑːr/

UK lawyers who are allowed to argue a case in a higher court

US all lawyers thought of as a group

be called to the Bar UK

to gain a qualification as a lawyer who can argue a case in a higher court

be admitted to the Bar US

to gain a qualification as a lawyer

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Lawyers & legal officials

  • advocate
  • articled
  • attorney
  • attorney general
  • bailiff
  • barrister
  • coroner
  • counsel
  • counsellor
  • district attorney
  • draftswoman
  • I rest my case idiom
  • KC
  • law clerk
  • marshal
  • probation officer
  • prosecution
  • prosecutor
  • public defender
  • public prosecutor

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