Bar
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). To prohibit. To lock or bolt with a bar.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. 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 (US), a piece of thinner material being called a strip. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart. A business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house. The counter of such a premises A similar device or simply a closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity. A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo. The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay Short for the Bar exam, the legal licensing exam. A collective term for lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others. The legal profession of lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others. A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value. One of those musical sections. The crossbar 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. 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). One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess. A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault A unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals.
Part of speech: preposition
Definition: Except, with the exception of.
Example sentence: I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Banish
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.# With simple direct object.#: If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.# With from.#: He was banished from the kingdom.# With out of.#* 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Modern Library 1999, p. 640:#*: For I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England.# With two simple objects (person and place).#* 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 190:#*: Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.To expel, esp. from the mind.
Example sentence: We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.