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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Barred} (b[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Barring}.] [ F. barrer. See {Bar}, noun]
1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
2. To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.
He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. --Hawthorne.
3. To except; to exclude by exception.
Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. --Shak.
4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly. --Burney.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bar
noun
1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: {barroom}, {saloon}, {ginmill}, {taproom}]
2: a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar"
3: a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape"
4: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" [syn: {measure}]
5: an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar"
6: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [syn: {prevention}]
7: (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter"
8: a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river"
9: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" [syn: {legal profession}, {legal community}]
10: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: {cake}]
11: a portable .30 caliber magazine-fed automatic rifle operated by gas pressure; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn: {Browning automatic rifle}]
12: a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
13: a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars"
14: (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar"
verb
1: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: {debar}, {exclude}]
2: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: {barricade}, {block}, {blockade}, {stop}, {block off}, {block up}]
3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" [syn: {banish}, {relegate}]
4: secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant: {unbar}] [also: {barring}, {barred}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
barred
adjective
1: firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the house properly secured" [syn: {bolted}, {fast}, {latched}, {locked}, {secured}]
2: preventing entry or exit or a course of action; "a barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded harbor" [syn: {barricaded}, {blockaded}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
barred See {bar}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "barred": absurd, banded, banned, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, brinded, brindle, brindled, cabined, caged, cancellated, cloistered, closed-in, closed-out, confined, contraband, contrary to reason, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, crossbarred, debarred, deported, ejected, enclosed, excluded, exiled, expelled, fenced, filigreed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, grated, gridded, hedged, hemmed, hopeless, illegal, illicit, immured, impossible, imprisoned, incarcerated, inconceivable, jailed, laced, lacelike, lacy, latticelike, leaguered, left out, liquidated, listed, logically impossible, marbled, marbleized, meshed, meshy, mewed, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, nonpermissible, not in it, not included, not permitted, not possible, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed, oxymoronic, paled, paradoxical, penned, pent-up, plexiform, precluded, preposterous, prohibited, purged, quarantined, railed, restrained, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, ridiculous, ruled out, ruled-out, self-contradictory, shut out, shut-in, streaked, streaky, striatal, striate, striated, strigate, strigose, striolate, striped, stripy, tabby, taboo, tabooed, unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban, unimaginable, unlawful, unlicensed, unpermissible, unsanctioned, unthinkable, untouchable, veined, verboten, vetoed, walled, walled-in, watered
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