bar*/*/*/

[bɑː] noun I

1) [C] a place where you go to buy and drink alcoholic drinks

2) [C] the COUNTER where alcoholic drinks are served

3) [C] a long narrow piece of metal

an old house with iron bars on the windows[/ex]

4) [C] a solid block of a substance

a bar of soap[/ex]

a chocolate bar[/ex]

5) [C] something that prevents another thing from happening

The fact that you are a woman should not be a bar to success.[/ex]

6) [C] one of the sections in a line of music

7) [C] a long narrow shape along one of the sides of a WINDOW on a computer screen

a scroll/tool bar[/ex]

8) the bar

[singular] the profession of being a BARRISTER

•

behind bars — in prison[/ex]

II

preposition

British bar [bɑː]

except

I agreed with all his arguments bar one.[/ex]

III

verb [T]

bar [bɑː]

1) to officially say that something is not allowed

The new rule bars the export of live animals.[/ex]

2) to put something across a door or window so that no one can get through it

3) to prevent someone from going somewhere by standing in their way

Three vicious-looking dogs barred our way.[/ex]