be (all) over bar the shouting
the Bar
noun[ S, + sing/pl verb ]
(US usually the bar)uk /bɑːr/ us /bɑːr/
UK
lawyers who are allowed to argue a case in a higher court（能出席高级法庭的）大律师
US
all lawyers thought of as a group律师界，司法界，法律界
 be called to the BarUK
to gain a qualification as a lawyer who can argue a case in a higher court: 取得（出席高级法庭的）大律师资格，成为（出席高级法庭的）大律师
She studied law and was called to the Bar in 2013.
 be admitted to the barUS
to gain a qualification as a lawyer: 取得律师资格，成为律师
After being admitted to the bar in 1998, he represented other people who had got into trouble with the regulators.

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bar | American Dictionary

bar
noun
us/bɑr/

barnoun (POLE)

[ C ]
a strong pole, esp. one made of metal, used as a support, to force something to move, or to block an opening:
He stuck his hand through the bars of the cage
[ C ]
A bar is also any of various small objects having a rectangular shape:
a granola bar

barnoun (DRINKING PLACE)

[ C ]
a place, sometimes within a restaurant, where alcoholic drinks are served, or a long, high table in such a place along which people stand or sit while drinking:
He used to just sit in a bar and listen to jazz.
They sat at the bar and chatted with the bartender.

barnoun (MUSIC)

[ C ](alsomeasure)
one of the small equal parts into which a piece of music is divided, containing a fixed number of beats:
He played four bars of music.
[ C ](alsomeasure)
A bar is also one of the vertical lines that divide a piece of music into equal parts.

barnoun (LAWYERS)

[ U ]
all lawyers considered as a group:
She passed the Massachusetts bar exam on her first try.
bar
verb[ T ]
us/bɑr/-rr-

barverb[T] (PREVENT)

to prevent someone from doing something or going somewhere:
Protesters tried to break into the building, but the police barred their way.

barverb[T] (POLE)

to put a strong pole or poles across an opening:
We barred the windows as protection against burglars.
bar
preposition
us/bɑr/

barpreposition (EXCEPT)

except for:
He’s the greatest pitcher of all time, bar none (= no one else is better).

bar | Business English

bar
noun[ C ]
uk /bɑːr/us
something that prevents a particular event or development from happening:
a bar (to sth)A lack of formal education does not have to be a bar to success in business and politics.
bar
verb[ T ]
uk /bɑːr/us-rr-
LAW
to prevent something or someone from doing something or going somewhere, or to refuse to allow something:
bar sb/sth from (doing) sthLawyers on both sides have been barred from discussing the case in the press.
The government voted to bar the import of exotic birds.
the bar
noun[ S ]
 LAW (alsothe Bar)uk /bɑːr/us
UK
the group of barristers(= lawyers who are allowed to argue a case in a higher court), or the profession of such lawyers:
a member of the bar
He was called to the bar(= became a barrister) in 2006.
It has been a privilege to have practised at the Bar for 47 years.
US
all lawyers considered as a group, or the profession of law:
Effectiveness requires that other members of the bar trust your word and credibility.
She was admitted to the bar(= became a lawyer) in her early thirties.

Examples of bar

bar
The scale bar represents the estimated number of nucleotide substitutions per nucleotide site.
Each bar of the histogram is a ' bin ' representing the number of spikes within a given time-frame : in all experiments each ' bin ' represents 1 second.
The rules at the university where he taught that student barred his giving her a grade before she had finished her paper.
Under the conditions of transparency, dots of the background were visible between the gaps of the dots of the random-dot bar.
A vertical bar rises the full height of the sash, 4in from the edge of the frame.
Vertical bars represent s. e. d. for each season.
Vertical bars represent standard errors of the means.
Silking is expressed, as for tassellation, in the vertical white bar chart.
The latter is illustrated by a vertical bar in figure 4, which gives the span of results obtained in recent lock-exchange experiments.
Vertical bars indicate one standard error of the difference.
Vertical bars represent the standard error of the mean.
Second with regard to a decrease in turnover came restaurants, bars and other centres of the nightly entertainment industry.
Every aspect bar the initial incision and post-operative stitching was performed by the robot.
The numbers atop the bars denote the cumulative percentages of the response variation accounted for by successive principal components.
The values of these parameters allow the instantiation of rollers or sanding bars type, shape, dimensions, material, etc.!.
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Collocations withbar

bar

These are words often used in combination with bar.

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bar examination
One has to pass his bar examination, and to become a solicitor one has to pass his final examination.
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