{n} a bolt, stop, cross beam for security, inclosure in an inn or court room, division in music, bank of sand in a river, body of lawyers, an exception in pleading
The raised ridge down the center of a backgammon board dividing the home board from the outer board, where checkers are placed after they have been hit A player with a checker on the bar must enter that checker before he can make any other move
an accumulation of alluvium (usually gravel or sand) caused by a decrease in sediment transport capacity on the inside of meander bends or in the center of an overwide channel
render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
A bar is a long, straight, stiff piece of metal. a brick building with bars across the ground floor windows. a crowd throwing stones and iron bars
You can use bar when you mean `except'. For example, all the work bar the washing means all the work except the washing. Bar a plateau in 1989, there has been a rise in inflation ever since the mid-1980's The aim of the service was to offer everything the independent investor wanted, bar advice. see also barring = save emphasis You use bar none to add emphasis to a statement that someone or something is the best of their kind. He is simply the best goalscorer we have ever had, bar none. = without exception
(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"