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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
barred
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
window
▪ But now a narrow passage leading to the single barred window had been constructed down the middle of the room.
▪ The room was lit by fluorescent tubes above and one barred window glazed with wire-reinforced glass.
▪ He stood under the meagre bulb in the odd-shaped room with its barred window.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
no holds barred
▪ There are no holds barred when it comes to making a profit.
▪ He told me he was going to shoot the whole works, no holds barred.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A magically barred inner space, removed from everyday life.
▪ At last, where a five barred gate provided a break in the hedge, Fen stopped.
▪ In recent years the defiantly right-on stance of the comedy circuit had been booted out by a brand of no-holds barred humour.
▪ In the morning white rime coated the sill of the barred window-space.
▪ Sunday's dynamic, no-nonsense, no-holds barred mood makes it a go-ahead time.
▪ The gates are barred, the grass grows long, the paint peels.
▪ Touch the thing and you are barred, barred for life.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barred

Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barred (b[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Barring.] [ F. barrer. See Bar, n.]

  1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.

  2. To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.

    He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon.
    --Hawthorne.

  3. To except; to exclude by exception.

    Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to-night.
    --Shak.

  4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines.

    For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly.
    --Burney.

Wiktionary
barred
  1. Having bars; striped. v

  2. (en-pastbar)

WordNet
bar
  1. n. a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, saloon, ginmill, taproom]

  2. a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar"

  3. a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape"

  4. musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" [syn: measure]

  5. an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar"

  6. the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [syn: prevention]

  7. (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter"

  8. a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river"

  9. the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" [syn: legal profession, legal community]

  10. a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: cake]

  11. a portable .30 caliber magazine-fed automatic rifle operated by gas pressure; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn: Browning automatic rifle]

  12. a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises

  13. a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars"

  14. (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar"

  15. [also: barring, barred]

barred
  1. adj. firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the house properly secured" [syn: bolted, fast, latched, locked, secured]

  2. preventing entry or exit or a course of action; "a barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded harbor" [syn: barricaded, blockaded]

bar
  1. v. prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: debar, exclude]

  2. render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up]

  3. expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" [syn: banish, relegate]

  4. secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant: unbar]

  5. [also: barring, barred]

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Usage examples of "barred".

The luckless shaven-haired monkey or rat, guinea pig or dog bent on renouncing the laboratory world for ever found itself opening its eyes on it once more from the antiseptically scrubbed floor of its cage, its drinking vessel freshly charged, its dressings ingeniously barred from investigation, its recovery a command - even, if necessary, its benefactor would minister long hours overtime to make sure it was carried out.

His way was barred by bedizened dignitaries, who spoke to him and to each other roundly of the solemnity of this occasion, and of how much more appalling conditions would be henceforth.

While Fewick wept over the unprecedented inscriptions, Blanco tried the handle of the wooden door which barred the way into the modest structure.

And certainly, pedestrians, hindered at each step by bushes, caught by creepers, barred by trunks of trees, did not shine beside those supple animals, who, bounding from branch to branch, were hindered by nothing on their course.

We closed the outer door and barred and locked it, and bringing the dogs with us, began our search of the house.

Where a brooklet led them onward, Where the trail of deer and bison Marked the soft mud on the margin, Till they found all further passage Shut against them, barred securely By the trunks of trees uprooted, Lying lengthwise, lying crosswise, And forbidding further passage.

Poor Cressida Mandeville would be the one barred from the land of delights.

Soon afterwards the little Sydenham villa was barred and shuttered, the four children were sound asleep, Herbert and Albinia Minks both lost in the world of happy dreams that sometimes visit honest, simple folk whose consciences are clean and whose aims in life are commonplace but worthy.

As I was barred from the morgue and persona non grata with my colleagues, further research into the foot was at a standstill.

The barred windows had panes of glass in them, cheap, cloudy glass that had been poorly installed.

Wherewithall shee barred and propped the doore, and came to me againe, and embracing me lovingly about the neck with both her armes, spake with a soft voice and said, I doe greatly feare to discover the privities of this house, and to utter the secret mysteries of my dame.

Home itself was not totally barred to a recusant wife during the term of her conviction.

So saying, she advanced towards the couch, with the intention of removing the covering, when Lord Roos barred her approach.

Opening a heavily barred door, Sargon bowed the girl into a replica of an early Spanish patio with a magnificent tiled floor and a lovely tinkling fountain playing against the background of a beautiful wall inlaid with delicate mosaics.

My link with him was suddenly a clumsy thing that barred me from sensing in full what he felt.