Difference between Bar and Debar

What is the difference between Bar and Debar?

Bar as a verb is to obstruct the passage of (someone or something). while Debar as a verb is to exclude or shut out; to bar.

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 used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.

Debar

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To exclude or shut out; to bar.To prohibit a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with an application for approval of a new drug from participating in future applications.

We hope you now know whether to use Bar or Debar in your sentence.

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