Behind bars

Definition

bar 1 /bɑ:(r)/ n ၁။ [C] (က) ဟိုတယ္ စသည္တြင္ အေဖ်ာ္ယမကာ ေရာင္းေသာ အေဆာင္၊ အခန္း။ ဘား။ The island's only licensed bar ❍ a bar menu ❍ a cocktail bar ❍ I found him in the bar of the Red Lion. ❍ They walked into the bar. ❍ INN (ခ) အေဖ်ာ္ယမကာေကာင္တာ။ sitting on a stool at/ by the bar ❍ the poolside bar area ❍ He put his beer down on the bar. See also LOUNGE BAR, PUBLIC BAR, SALOON BAR, WINE BAR ၂။ [C] (esp in compounds) လက္ဖက္ရည္၊ ေကာ္ဖီ၊ မုန္႔ပဲသေရစာ ရႏိုင္ေသာဆိုင္။ a sandwich bar ❍ a coffee bar. See also SNACK-BAR ၃။ [C] (က) (သတၱဳ) အေခ်ာင္း။ an iron bar. (ခ) အေတာင့္။ a bar of chocolate/ soap. ❍ PIECE (ဂ) (တံခါး၊ ျပတင္း ေပါက္) သံတိုင္၊ သစ္သားတိုင္။ There's a strong bar on the door. ❍ They fitted bars to their windows to stop burglars getting in. (ဃ) (လွ်ပ္စစ္မီးဖို) ကိြဳင္။ Switch another bar on if you're cold. ၄။ [C] ဂီတသေကၤတျဖင့္ေရးရာ တြင္ စည္းဝါး သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ကို ျပသည့္အကန္႔။ ဘားမ်ဥ္း။ Hum the opening bars of your favourite tune. ❍ MUSIC ၅။ [C usu sing ] ~ (to sth) အဟန္႔အတား။ Poor health may be a bar to success in life. See also COLOUR BAR ၆။ the Bar [Gp, sing ] (က) ( Brit ) ဝတ္လံုေတာ္ရ ေရွ႕ေန (အလုပ္)။ be called to the bar (ie be received into the profession of barrister). (ခ) ( US ) တရားေရးဝန္ထမ္း။ v (-rr-) ၁။ မင္းတုပ္ခ်သည္။ ကန္႔လန္႔ထိုးသည္။ barred windows. ၂။ တားဆီးသည္။ ဟန္႔တားသည္။ Troops barred the road so we had to turn back. ❍ ( fig ) Poverty bars the way to progress. ၃။ ~ sb (from sth/ doing sth) ပိတ္ပင္သည္။ She was barried from (entering) the competition because of her age. ❍ All visitors were barred. ❏ bar chart n ပမာဏအတက္အက်ကို တိုင္နိမ့္ျမင့္ ပံုစံျဖင့္ ျပေသာကားခ်ပ္။ ❍ CHART ❏ bar code n ကြန္ပ်ဴတာျဖင့္ဖတ္၍ စာရင္းထိန္းႏိုင္ရန္ ေရာင္းကုန္ေပၚ၌မ်ဥ္းမတ္အထူအပါး အၿပိဳင္႐ိုက္ႏိွပ္၍ သေကၤတ ထားရိွသည့္ စနစ္။ ❏ behind bars [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေထာင္ထဲမွာ။ The murderer is now safely behind bars. bar 2 /bɑ:(r)/ prep ကလြဲ၍။ မွတစ္ပါး။ he whole class is here bar two that are sick. ❍ That's the best ice-cream I've ever tasted, bar none (ie without any exception). See also BARRING

Examples

1. We met at Ernie’s Bar.
2. A wine/cocktail bar
3. Whose turn is it to go to the bar (=to buy the drinks)?
4. A sushi bar
5. A sandwich bar
6. An old house with iron bars on the windows
7. The car’s safety features include side-impact bars.
8. Use the scroll bar to move up and down the page.
9. There’s a quick-access menu bar below the top menu.
10. Owen’s shot hit the bar and ended up in the crowd.
11. A chocolate bar
12. [bar of] : A bar of soap
13. [bar to] : We have to ensure that a person’s ethnic background is no bar to success in the workplace.
14. [bar on] : The ruling placed a bar on any mention of the facts in the media.
15. There's no signal in here - I'm going outside to get some bars.