Word Confusion: Bar vs Barre vs Barré

Plural for the noun: bars
Gerund: barring

Third person present verb: bars
Past tense or past participle: barred
Present participle: barring

Plural: barres

Plural for the noun: barrés

Gerund: barréing

Third person present verb: barrés
Past tense or past participle: barréed
Present participle: barréing

Alternative spelling: barre chord, bar chord, barr chord

[Bible; use initial cap, Bar.] A book in the bible, Baruch

[Use lowercase] Barometer
[Use lowercase] Barometric
[Use lowercase] Barrel
[Use lowercase] Barrister
[B.Ar.] Bachelor of Architecture

Exclamation:
A cry for immunity from being caught or otherwise penalized in a game

Noun:
A long rod or rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon ²

• An amount of food or another substance formed into a regular narrow block
• A band of color or light, especially on a flat surface
• A sandbank or shoal at the mouth of a harbor, bay, or estuary
• [Heraldry] A charge in the form of a narrow horizontal stripe across the shield

A counter across which alcoholic drinks or refreshments are served.

• A room in a restaurant or hotel in which alcohol is served
• An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served
• [With modifier] A small store or booth serving refreshments or providing a service

A barrier, hindrance, or restriction to an action or advance

• [Law] A plea arresting an action or claim in a law case
• Obstacle
• Barrier

To block by (or as if by) bars

[Music] A measure of music or the time of a piece of music

[the bar] A partition in a courtroom or legislative assembly, now usually notional, beyond which most people may not pass and, in court, at which an accused person stands

• [British] A rail marking the end of each chamber in the Houses of Parliament

[the Bar] The legal profession

• [British] Barristers collectively
• [North American] Lawyers collectively
• A particular court of law

Mosquito net ³

[Physics] A centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one million dynes per square centimeter ⁴

[Physics; formerly] Microbar

Immunity from being caught or otherwise penalized in a game ⁵

Preposition:
[Chiefly British] Except for ²

• Apart from
• Omitting
• But

Verb, transitive:
Fasten something (especially a door or window) with a bar or bars ²

Prevent or prohibit someone from doing something or from going somewhere

• Forbid an activity to someone
• Exclude something from consideration
• [Law] Prevent or delay an action by objection

Mark something with bars or stripes

Noun:
The act of laying the index finger over some or all of the strings of a guitar, lute, or similar instrument, so that the pitch of each stopped string is simultaneously raised

The playing of chords in this manner

Any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones

Verb:
To execute chords in this manner

The standard atmosphere is a unit of pressure defined as 1.01325 bar.

This invoice calls for 25 bar. of finest mead.

Bar. running late. C u in court.

Tom has his B.Ar.

Noun:
That jail cell has some pretty sturdy bars.

I want that man behind bars!

Pam bought herself a bar of chocolate.

In the movie Goldfinger, it was all about the gold bars.

Bars of sunlight shafting through the broken windows, lit the room with a jagged light.

The infamous “Doom Bar” has caused so many problems for mariners getting in and out of Padstow Harbour.

His shield carried the bar sinister.

I’ll get us some drinks from the bar.

I remember those shrimp boils in the bars of my youth.

Dairy Queen could be considered a dairy bar.

The snack bar at an outdoor movie theater was always a light in the darkness.

Political differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship.

Their actions were a bar to important legislation.

Let’s take it from three bars in.

Please address the prisoner at the bar.

He had to appear at the Bar of the House for a reprimand by the Speaker.

He’s a member of the Bar.

To practice, one must pass the bar exam and be admitted.

They have drastically lowered the bar for anyone who wants to call themselves a musician.

Pull the bar around the bed.

Vilhelm Bjerknes, a Norwegian meteorologist, introduced the concept of the bar and millibar.

“And they said, Behold, we have sent you money to buy you burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye manna, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God . . .” (King James Bible, Bar. 1:10).

Preposition:
Everyone, bar a few ascetics, thinks it desirable.

Bar a miracle, you will lose.

This is the best bookstore in town, bar none.

Verb, transitive:
She should bolt and bar the door.

Journalists had been barred from covering the elections.

Boulders barred her passage.

The police barred the exits in an attempt to prevent the thief’s escape.

They barred her entrance to the club.

The job she loved had been barred to her.

Nothing is barred in the crime novel.

A bar to appeal would not impede them in any way.

His face was barred with light.

He was barred from membership because of his reputation.

All right, ladies, to the barre.

Noun:
The tune was enlivened by the barrés Phil used.

Use the barré in this measure.

He preferred to use a barré device instead of his fingers alone.

Barré chords are not easy to master.

Verb:
Janie, you have a nasty welt across your fingers from all that barréing you did!

Learning to barré requires strong fingers to push those strings down on the fretboard.

A double barré requires your first and second fingers to be barréed across two separate frets.

1. Unknown.
2. Middle English from the Old French barre (noun), barrer (verb), is of unknown origin.
3. 1770–80 Louisiana French bère, baire, apparently representing a dialectal pronunciation of the French barre meaning barrier, rod.
4. 1900–05 Greek báros meaning weight; cf. barometer, isobar.
5. Variant of barley, meaning the grain of the plant.