Bar vs Court - What's the difference?
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A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
(countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. (For example, turning A' into ' ? .)
A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
The counter of such a premises.
A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc., a premises or counter serving non-alcoholic drinks.
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
* Dryden
(computing, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
(UK, legal) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
The Bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
(music) One of those musical sections.
(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
(soccer) The crossbar
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(backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
(nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
A city gate, in some British place names.
(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
(farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
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To prohibit.
To lock or bolt with a bar.
to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe
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(horse racing)
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
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* (1800-1859)
# A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
(label) Royal society.
# The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
# Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
#* (1800-1859)
Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
(label) The administration of law.
# The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
# The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.
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# The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
# The session of a judicial assembly.
# Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
(label) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
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To seek to achieve or win.
* Prescott
* De Quincey
To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
To try to win a commitment to marry from.
* Shakespeare
To engage in behavior leading to mating.
To attempt to attract.
* Macaulay
To attempt to gain alliance with.
To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
To engage in courtship behavior.
To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
* Tennyson
Bar is a synonym of court.
As a noun bar
is bar.As a proper noun court is
(us) an abbreviated term of respect for any court ("the court").bar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . May well have been reinforced by existing Old English term from the same root.Noun
- The window was protected by steel bars .
- Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
- We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
- bar of chocolate
- bar of soap
- a bar''' of light; a '''bar of colour
- The street was lined with all-night bars .
- Step up to the bar and order a drink.
- The club has lifted its bar on women members.
- Must I new bars to my own joy create?
- Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar .
- He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
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- There were no bars so I didn't get your text.
- Potter's Bar
Synonyms
* (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages) barroom, ginshop, pub (British ), public house, tavern * (official order prohibiting some activity) ban, prohibition * measure * See alsoDerived terms
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * barring * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * disbar, disbarment * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *See also
* (heraldry)Verb
(barr)- But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
- Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
- Then look for me by moonlight,
- Watch for me by moonlight,
- I'll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way."
- Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
- I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred .
- bar the door
- I lived in a hut in the yard, but 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.
Synonyms
* (obstruct) block, hinder, obstruct * (prohibit) ban, interdict, prohibit * (lock or bolt with a bar) * See alsoDerived terms
* *Preposition
(English prepositions)- He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
- Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar .
Synonyms
* apart from, barring, except, except for, excluding, other than, saveDerived terms
* *References
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) , coined circa 1900.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* * *Anagrams
*court
English
Noun
(en noun)- And round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters.
- Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court .
- This our court , infected with their manners, / Shows like a riotous inn.
- My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you.
- Love rules the court , the camp, the grove.
- The princesses held their court within the fortress.
- No solace could her paramour entreat / Her once to show, ne court , nor dalliance.
- I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle.
Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?, passage=Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?}}
George Goodchild
Derived terms
* contempt of court * court case * court fight * court jester * courtroom * hold court * in court * out-of-courtVerb
(en verb)- He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.
- They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.
- Guilt and misery court privacy and solitude.
- He courted controversy with his frank speeches.
- If either of you both love Katharina / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
- The bird was courting by making an elaborate dance.
- By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted .
- She's had a few beaus come courting .
- In this season, you can see many animals courting .
- A well-worn pathway courted us / To one green wicket in a privet hedge.