Definitions for barred

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barred barred

Spelling: [bahrd]

IPA: /bɑrd/

Barred is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in barred (abderr).

Definitions for barred

noun

1. a relatively long, evenly shaped piece of some solid substance, as metal or wood, used as a guard or obstruction or for some mechanical purpose:
2. an oblong piece of any solid material:
3. the amount of material in a bar.
4. an ingot, lump, or wedge of gold or silver.
5. a long ridge of sand, gravel, or other material near or slightly above the surface of the water at or near the mouth of a river or harbor entrance, often constituting an obstruction to navigation.
6. anything that obstructs, hinders, or impedes; obstacle; barrier:
7. a counter or place where beverages, especially liquors, or light meals are served to customers:
8. a barroom or tavern.
9. (in a home) a counter, small wagon, or similar piece of furniture for serving food or beverages:
10. the legal profession.
11. the practicing members of the legal profession in a given community.
12. any tribunal:
13. a band or strip:
14. a railing in a courtroom separating the general public from the part of the room occupied by the judges, jury, attorneys, etc.
15. a crowbar.
16. Music. Also called bar line. the line marking the division between two measures of music. double bar. the unit of music contained between two bar lines; measure.
17. Ballet. barre.
18. Law. an objection that nullifies an action or claim. a stoppage or defeat of an alleged right of action.
19. Typography. a horizontal stroke of a type character, as of an A, H, t, and sometimes e.
20. Architecture. (in tracery) a relatively long and slender upright of stone treated as a colonette or molded.
21. Building Trades. an iron or steel shape: a muntin.
22. Military. one of a pair of metal or cloth insignia worn by certain commissioned officers.
23. bars, the transverse ridges on the roof of the mouth of a horse.
24. a space between the molar and canine teeth of a horse into which the bit is fitted.
25. (in a bridle) the mouthpiece connecting the cheeks.
26. bride2 (def 1).
27. Heraldry. a horizontal band, narrower than a fess, that crosses the field of an escutcheon.
28. Obsolete. a gateway capable of being barred.

Idioms

1. at bar, Law. before the court and being tried: before all the judges of a court:
2. behind bars, in jail:

adjective

1. provided with one or more bars:
2. striped; streaked:
3. Ornithology. (of feathers) marked with transverse bands of distinctive color.

preposition

1. except; omitting; but:

verb (used with object)

1. to equip or fasten with a bar or bars:
2. to block by or as if by bars:
3. to prevent or hinder:
4. to exclude or except:
5. to mark with bars,ŋ stripes, or bands.

Origin of barred

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at bar¹, -ed³

Examples for barred

In fact Palestinians, gay or straight, are barred from even applying for refugee status in Israel.

For many years, visitors were barred from the isolated towns.

It was like the other cages, with barred walls and sheet-iron floors.

See that all doors are barred so that we may sleep without fear of Spanish thieves.

Under Zambian electoral law Scott, 70, is barred from standing for the presidency himself.

And stretching forth his arm, he barred the path with his mighty spear.

Meanwhile, Benjamin says, the Board watched, applauded the parents, and barred the headmaster from responding.

But, with a movement of great swiftness, Garson got in front of her, and barred her going.

The state Supreme Court also barred him from holding judicial office in Arkansas.

It was closed, barred, and curtained, just as it had been overnight.