noun

 

drinking a place where alcoholic drinks are sold and drunk, or the area behind the person serving the drinks

 

block a small block of something solid

a chocolate bar

 

long piece a long, thin piece of metal or wood

There were bars on the downstairs windows.

 

preventing success something that prevents you doing something or having something

Lack of money should not be a bar to a good education.

 

music one of the short, equal groups of notes that a piece of music is divided into

The band played the first few bars.

 

verb

 

prevent to officially prevent someone doing something or going somewhere, or to prevent something happening

The court barred him from contacting his former wife.

 

keep out to stop someone going into a place

A line of policemen barred the entrance to the camp.

 

close to close and lock a door or gate