Bar vs. Prohibit — What's the Difference?

A long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon

To forbid by authority

A counter in a pub, restaurant, or cafe across which drinks or refreshments are served

To prevent; preclude

A barrier or restriction to an action or advance

(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

Any of the short sections or measures, typically of equal time value, into which a piece of music is divided, shown on a score by vertical lines across the stave

To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.

A partition in a court room, now usually notional, beyond which most people may not pass and at which an accused person stands

To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.

The profession of barrister

Command against;

A unit of pressure equivalent to a hundred thousand newtons per square metre or approximately one atmosphere.

Fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars

Prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something or from going somewhere

Mark (something) with bars or stripes

Except for

A relatively long, straight, rigid piece of solid material used as a fastener, support, barrier, or structural or mechanical member.

A solid oblong block of a substance or combination of ingredients, such as soap or candy.

A usually rectangular slice of any of various flat baked confections that are typically dense in texture.

A rectangular block of a precious metal.

See horizontal bar.

A horizontal rod that marks the height to be cleared in high jumping or pole vaulting.

A standard, expectation, or degree of requirement

Something that impedes or prevents action or progress

A ridge, as of sand or gravel, on a shore or streambed, that is formed by the action of tides or currents.

A narrow marking, as a stripe or band.

A narrow metal or embroidered strip worn on a military uniform indicating rank or service.

Chiefly British A small insignia worn on a military decoration indicating that it has been awarded an additional time.

(Heraldry) A pair of horizontal parallel lines drawn across a shield.

The nullification, defeat, or prevention of a claim or action.

The process by which nullification, defeat, or prevention is achieved.

The railing in a courtroom separating the participants in a legal proceeding from the spectators.

A court or courtroom.

Attorneys considered as a group. Used with the.

The profession of law. Used with the.

A vertical line drawn through a staff to mark off a measure.

A measure.

Variant of barre.

A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.

An establishment or room having such a counter.

A unit of pressure equal to one million (106) dynes per square centimeter.

To fasten securely with a long, straight, rigid piece of material

To shut in or confine

To obstruct or impede; block

To keep out; exclude

To prohibit or prevent (someone) from doing something

To prohibit (an action)

(Law) To nullify, defeat, or prevent (a claim or action).

To rule out; except

To mark with stripes or bands.

Chiefly British Except for; excluding

A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood 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 4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.

A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

A broad shaft, band, or stripe.

A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.

(typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨{{!}}⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly including oblique marks such as the slash.

(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.

(physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).

A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.

The counter of such premises.

A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.

, juice bar, etc.}} Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.

An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.

An establishment offering cosmetic services.

An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.

A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.

A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.

The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.

The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.

Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.

One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.

(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.

(music) One of those musical sections.

(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.

(metaphorical) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.

The crossbar.

(backgammon) 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).

(heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.

A city gate, in some British place names.

(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.

(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.

(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

(slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.

A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

(transitive) To prohibit.

(transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

Except, other than, besides.

(horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.

An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.

Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.

A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.

The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.

Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.

A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.

A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

A drilling or tamping rod.

A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

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

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.

To except; to exclude by exception.

To cross with one or more stripes or lines.

A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter;

A counter where you can obtain food or drink;

A rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon;

Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;

An obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal;

The act of preventing;

(meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter;

A submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore;

The body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction;

A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax);

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

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

A heating element in an electric fire;

(law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried;

Prevent from entering; keep out;

Render unsuitable for passage;

Expel, as if by official decree;

Secure with, or as if with, bars;