bar

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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noun, verb, preposition
+ noun
for drinks / food
1 [C] a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic and other drinks: He's been working at a bar called the Flamingo. + the island's only licensed bar (= one that is allowed to sell alcoholic drinks) + a cocktail bar + The hotel has a restaurant, bar and swimming pool. + (BrE) I found David in the bar of the Red Lion (= a room in a pub where drinks are served).
See also - BAR ROOM, LOUNGE BAR, MINIBAR, PUBLIC BAR, SALOON BAR
2 [C] a long wide wooden surface where drinks, etc. are served: She was sitting at the bar. + It was so crowded I couldn't get to the bar.
3 [C] (especially in compounds) a place in which a particular kind of food or drink is the main thing that is served: a sandwich bar + a coffee bar
See also - SNACK BAR, WINE BAR
of chocolate / soap
4 [C] a piece of sth with straight sides: a bar of chocolate / soap + The kids never eat candy bars.
of metal / wood
5 [C] a long straight piece of metal or wood. Bars are often used to stop sb from getting through a space: He smashed the window with an iron bar. + All the ground floor windows were fitted with bars. + a five-bar gate (= one made with five bars of wood)
See also - SPACE BAR, TOW BAR
in electric fire
6 [C] a piece of metal with wire wrapped around it that becomes red and hot when electricity is passed through it: Switch another bar on if you're cold.
of colour / light
7 [C] a band of colour or light: Bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows.
that prevents sth
8 [C, usually sing.] ~ (to sth) a thing that stops sb from doing sth: At that time being a woman was a bar to promotion in most professions.
See also - COLOUR BAR
in music
9 (BrE) (AmE measure) [C] one of the short sections of equal length that a piece of music is divided into, and the notes that are in it: four beats to the bar + Hum the opening bars of your favourite piece of music.
law
10 (the Bar) [sing.] (BrE) the profession of BARRISTER (= a lawyer in a higher court): to be called to the Bar (= allowed to work as a qualified BARRISTER)
11 (the Bar) [sing.] (AmE) the profession of any kind of lawyer
measurement
12 = MILLIBAR
See also - SCROLL BAR
Idioms: behind bars (informal) in prison: The murderer is now safely behind bars.
+ verb (-rr-) [VN]
close with bars
1 [usually passive] to close sth with a bar or bars: All the doors and windows were barred.
block
2 to block a road, path, etc. so that nobody can pass: Two police officers were barring her exit. + We found our way barred by rocks.
prevent
3 ~ sb (from sth / from doing sth) to forbid or prevent sb from doing sth: The players are barred from drinking alcohol the night before a match.
Idioms see HOLD n.
+ preposition
except for sb/sth: The students all attended, bar two who were ill. + It's the best result we've ever had, bar none (= none was better).
Idioms see SHOUTING
VOCABULARY BUILDING
a bar of chocolate
If you want to describe a whole unit of a particular substance, or a group of things that are normally together, for example when you buy them, you need to use the correct word.
a bar of soap/chocolate; a candy bar
a block of ice/stone/wood
a bolt/roll/length of fabric
a cube of ice/sugar; an ice/sugar cube
a loaf of bread
a roll of film/carpet
a slab of marble/concrete
a stick of gum
a bunch of bananas/grapes
a bunch/bouquet of flowers
a bundle of papers/sticks
a set/bunch of keys a set of chairs/glasses/clothes/guitar strings
- note at BIT(also informal bar)
+ noun
a unit for measuring the pressure of the atmosphere

Thesaurus dictionary

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n.

1 rod, shaft, pole, stick, stake:

A heavy iron bar is used to tamp the dynamite into place in the hole.

2 strip, stripe, band, belt; streak, line:

The company trade mark is a narrow red bar around the barrel of every ball-point pen.

3 barrier, obstacle, obstruction, barricade, hindrance, block, deterrent, impediment; ban, embargo:

A steel bar was across the entrance. Her pride proved a bar to her success. There is a bar against importing spirits.

4 sandbar, shallow, shoal, bank, sandbank:

Because the keel is too deep, the sloop will be unable to cross the bar till high tide.

5 tribunal, court, courtroom, lawcourt, bench:

The former mayor was found guilty of corruption at the bar of public opinion.

6 bar-room, saloon, public house, cafe, lounge, cocktail lounge, tavern, taproom, canteen, Brit local, wine bar; Colloq pub; Slang boozer, gin-mill:

I was at the bar on my third beer when she walked in.

7 counter:

We had a quick lunch at the sandwich bar.

v.

8 fasten, close up, secure, shut up; lock, lock up, padlock:

We tried to get in through the window, but they had barred it.

9 block, obstruct, stop, stay, hinder, keep (out), shut out, exclude, prevent, forbid, prohibit, set aside; forestall, impede, hamper, retard, balk, barricade; ban, embargo:

After his behaviour, he was barred from the club for a year. A huge man in an ill-fitting dinner-jacket barred my way. The regulations bar the import of firearms.

prep.

10 except (for), excepting, excluding, barring, outside (of), save for, aside from, but:

It's all over now bar the shouting.

Collocation dictionary

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¹ for drinks/food

ADJ.

licensed | crowded | lounge, public, saloon | gay, singles | cocktail, wine | breakfast, coffee, salad, sandwich, snack

VERB + BAR

drop into, go to, stop at

He often drops into a bar on the way home from work.

| manage, run

BAR + NOUN

food, menu, snacks | stool

PREP.

in a/the ~

There were not many people in the bar.

² counter

VERB + BAR

be propping up

(humorous),

drink at, lean on, sit at, stand at

You can usually find him propping up the bar of the Red Lion.

| serve behind

I didn't recognize the man who was serving behind the bar.

PREP.

at the ~

They were chatting at the bar.

| behind the ~

The barmaid stood behind the bar.

³ in music

VERB + BAR

hum, play, sing

She played a few bars on the piano.

PREP.

in a/the ~

the notes in the first bar

PHRASES

two, four, etc. beats to the bar

Concise English dictionary

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barred|barring|bars|bared|baringbɑː
noun
+a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
+a counter where you can obtain food or drink
+a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
+musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
+an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
+the act of preventing
+(meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
+a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
+the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
+a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
+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
+a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
+a heating element in an electric fire
+(law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
verb
+prevent from entering; keep out
+render unsuitable for passage
+expel, as if by official decree
+secure with, or as if with, bars

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