📒 a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic and other drinks
- We arranged to meet in a bar called the Flamingo.
- The area is full of restaurants and bars.
- The bar staff are very friendly.
📒 a place in which a particular kind of food or drink is the main thing that is served
- a sushi bar
- The hotel has a cocktail bar on the top floor.
📒 a long wide wooden surface where drinks, etc. are served
- at the bar She was sitting at the bar.
- behind the bar He spent the summer working behind the bar at the local pub.
- It was so crowded I couldn't get to the bar.
📒 a piece of something with straight sides
- a bar of chocolate/soap
- a chocolate bar
- (North American English) a candy bar
📒 a long straight piece of metal or wood. Bars are often used to stop somebody from getting through a space.
- He smashed the window with an iron bar.
- The room was small, with bars on the windows.
- The windows at street level were fitted with bars.
📒 a long narrow area at the edge of a computer screen that contains links or pull-down menus or displays information about the website or program that you are using
📒 the crossbar of a goal
📒 a band of colour or light
- Bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows.
📒 a thing that stops somebody from doing something
- At that time being a woman was a bar to promotion in most professions.
📒 one of the short sections of equal length that a piece of music is divided into, and the notes that are in it
- four beats to the bar
- the opening bars of a piece of music
- She played a few bars on the piano.
📒 the profession of barrister (= a lawyer in a higher court)
- to be called to the Bar (= allowed to work as a qualified barrister)
📒 the profession of any kind of lawyer
📒 a unit for measuring the pressure of the atmosphere, equal to a hundred thousand newtons per square metre
📒 a piece of metal with wire wrapped around it that becomes red and hot when electricity is passed through it
- Switch another bar on if you’re cold.
📒 in prison
- The murderer is now safely behind bars.
📒 to set a new, lower standard of quality or performance
- In the current economic climate we may need to lower the bar on quotas.
📒 to have nothing to do with something
- If he tries to sell you his car, don't have a bar of it.
📒 to set a new, higher standard of quality or performance
- The factory has raised the bar on productivity, food safety and quality.
- This latest computer game raises the bar for interface design.
- The awards go to people who have truly raised the bar.
📒 to set a standard of quality or performance
- The show really sets the bar for artistic invention.
- Sofia sets the bar very high for what she expects of herself.