Bar

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; 'it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar'.

(noun.) a counter where you can obtain food or drink; 'he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar'.

(noun.) (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'.

(noun.) a heating element in an electric fire; 'an electric fire with three bars'.

(noun.) a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises.

(noun.) a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; 'the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river'.

(noun.) (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'.

(verb.) prevent from entering; keep out; 'He was barred from membership in the club'.

(verb.) secure with, or as if with, bars; 'He barred the door'.

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• In 1822 the important improvement of the reciprocating knife bar was made by Ogle, which became a characteristic feature of all subsequent successful reapers. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• By the dead hands at my throat but he shall die, Bar Comas. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• This consisted of mechanical means for throwing the shuttle across the web by a sudden jerk of a bar--one at each side--operated by pulling a cord. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I was in the bar, and a garrulous landlord was giving me all that I wanted. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The operator in Fig. 6 is shown assembling switch plugs and is in the act of driving home a screw which holds in place the fiber bar over which the cord bends. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• You are the quickest messenger I know, and will get to Temple Bar long before I can. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The trial came on at once, and, when he was put to the bar, he was seated in a chair. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Seest thou, Isaac, said Front-de-Boeuf, the range of iron bars above the glowing charcoal? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The wings have two black bars. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But he just kept shaking his hands and arms against the bars and shouting, 'Kill them! 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I hear echoing footsteps in the passages below, and the iron thumping of bolts and bars at the house door. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Not before the eighteenth century do we find rolled sheet iron (1728) and rolled rods and bars (1783). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Blossom what would, its bricks and bars bore uniformly the same dead crop. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• When they passed a prison of the State, they kept far from its frowning walls, and looked up at its bars, and spoke in whispers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• For the second time--with the frantic perversity of a roused woman--she caught me by the arm, and barred my way out. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Half-way up were a couple of small, heavily barred windows. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He found this barred, and the defeated Confederate cavalry, reorganized, occupying the opposite side. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He took us, first, to Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, where there was a house with barred windows, which he called Coavinses' Castle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Caroline took a candle and went quietly all over the house, seeing that every window was fast and every door barred. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Cribbed and barred and moored by massive rusty chains, the prison-ship seemed in my young eyes to be ironed like the prisoners. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Gerald came down wearing a gown of broad-barred, thick black-and-green silk, brilliant and striking. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I heard Sir Percival barring up the window-shutters. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• At various points in the social system there were probably developments of exclusiveness, an actual barring out of interlopers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Barring the proximity of the village, it is a sort of paradise. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• To answer that question, let us very carefully insert a second prism in the path of the rays which issue from the first prism, carefully barring out the remaining six kinds of rays. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• For reply he whipped out his own sword, calling to the others to join him, and thus the four stood, with drawn weapons, barring my further progress. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• At the same time, and barring that slight drawback, I am bound to testify that he was the perfect model of a client. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She stepped forward and faced her tenant, barring his way. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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