Definitions for barring

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barring bar·ring

Spelling: [bahr-ing]

IPA: /ˈbɑr ɪŋ/

Barring is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in barring (abginrr).

Definitions for barring

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:

preposition

1. excepting; except for:
2. 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 barring

First recorded in 1475-85; bar¹ + -ing²

Examples for barring

barring commercial breaks (or sleep), it would theoretically take about seven days to watch all 25 seasons of ‘The Simpsons.’

barring a few co-conspirators from the neocon academy, nobody else is interested in supporting them.

And as I reached the porte it slid closed in my face, barring me!

barring his trade, he's not so bad, as he can read and write.

barring reunification, a North Korean collapse or war, the trends that created these weapons will undoubtedly continue.

So, barring a miracle, it looks like the Hiceman will cometh to Congress.

barring the accident of money, are n't they as good men as you?

And while he slept the gates were closing and barring the way.

barring flagrantly inappropriate behavior or outright neglect or abuse, I cannot and will not take sides in this kind of conflict.

barring accidents, he could catch her if he ordered his motor-car, and left at once.