Bar
[bɑː] or [bɑr]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
阿尔玛編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.
(n.) An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.
(n.) Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
(n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
(n.) Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
(n.) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.
(n.) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
(n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
(n.) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.
(n.) Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
(n.) A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.
(n.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
(n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.
(n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
(n.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
(n.) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.
(n.) A drilling or tamping rod.
(n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
(n.) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(n.) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
(n.) To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To except; to exclude by exception.
(n.) To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
安琪莉可錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Obstacle, hinderance, obstruction, barrier, BARRICADE, stop, impediment.[2]. Rail, railing.[3]. Tribunal, judgment-seat.[4]. Body of lawyers.
v. a. [1]. Fasten with a bar.[2]. Hinder, obstruct, stop, prevent.[3]. Exclude, shut out.
埃尔默編輯
解釋/意思:
as the bars of York Temple Bar a toll-bar: a bank of sand or other matter at the mouth of a river: any terminus or limit (of life)—e.g. as in To cross the bar: the railing that encloses a space in a tavern the counter across which drinks are served a public-house: the wooden rail dividing off the judge's seat at which prisoners are placed for arraignment or sentence—hence To appear at the bar To pass the bar = to be formally referred for trial from a lower court to a higher: any tribunal: the pleaders in a court as distinguished from the judges: a division in music.—v.t. to fasten or secure as with a bar: to hinder or exclude:—pr.p. bar′ring; pa.p. barred.—ns. Bar′-ī′ron iron in malleable bars; Bar′maid a female waiter at the bar of a tavern or hotel.—prep. Bar′ring excepting saving.—ns. Bar′ring-out the shutting of the school-room doors and windows by the pupils against the master in order to enforce assent to their demands; Bar′wood a kind of red dye-wood imported from Africa in bars.
校對:拉弗尔斯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of tending a bar, denotes that you will resort to some questionable mode of advancement. Seeing a bar, denotes activity in communities, quick uplifting of fortunes, and the consummation of illicit desires.
手打:纳塔利
娱乐性解釋/意思:
Things found in harbors, hotels, fences, prisons, courts and music. (Those found in courts and in music are full of beats).
伊夫林整理
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 十九世紀發明進展.
- By the dead hands at my throat but he shall die, Bar Comas. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 世紀發明.
- I was in the bar, and a garrulous landlord was giving me all that I wanted. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- You are the quickest messenger I know, and will get to Temple Bar long before I can. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The trial came on at once, and, when he was put to the bar, he was seated in a chair. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Seest thou, Isaac, said Front-de-Boeuf, the range of iron bars above the glowing charcoal? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The wings have two black bars. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- But he just kept shaking his hands and arms against the bars and shouting, 'Kill them! 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I hear echoing footsteps in the passages below, and the iron thumping of bolts and bars at the house door. 威爾基·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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Blossom what would, its bricks and bars bore uniformly the same dead crop. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- For the second time--with the frantic perversity of a roused woman--she caught me by the arm, and barred my way out. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Half-way up were a couple of small, heavily barred windows. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- He found this barred, and the defeated Confederate cavalry, reorganized, occupying the opposite side. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He took us, first, to Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, where there was a house with barred windows, which he called Coavinses' Castle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 雪麗.
- Cribbed and barred and moored by massive rusty chains, the prison-ship seemed in my young eyes to be ironed like the prisoners. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Gerald came down wearing a gown of broad-barred, thick black-and-green silk, brilliant and striking. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I heard Sir Percival barring up the window-shutters. 威爾基·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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Barring the proximity of the village, it is a sort of paradise. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- 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. 科學通論.
- 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. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She stepped forward and faced her tenant, barring his way. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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