What does bar mean?

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[n] a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter(he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar)[v] prevent from entering; keep out(He was barred from membership in the club)[n] a counter where you can obtain food or drink(he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar

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[n] a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
(he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar)

[v] prevent from entering; keep out
(He was barred from membership in the club)

[n] a counter where you can obtain food or drink
(he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar)

[v] render unsuitable for passage
(block the way barricade the streets stop the busy road)

[n] 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)

[v] expel, as if by official decree
(he was banished from his own country)

[n] musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
(the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song)

[v] secure with, or as if with, bars
(He barred the door)

[n] an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
(it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar)

[n] the act of preventing
(there was no bar against leaving money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza)

[n] (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)

[n] a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
(the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river)

[n] the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
(he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey)

[n] a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
(a green toad with small black stripes or bars may the Stars and Stripes forever wave)

[n] a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
(a bar of chocolate)

[n] a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War

[n] a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises

[n] a heating element in an electric fire
(an electric fire with three bars)

[n] (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)

Other vocabulary

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.