English Dictionary

bar

/bɑː/

verb

(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). / (transitive) To prohibit. / (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar. / To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

I like to bar hop on the weekends.

意味（1）

(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.

意味（2）

(transitive) To prohibit.

I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.

意味（3）

(transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.

bar the door

意味（4）

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

I lived in a hut in the yard. To be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.