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BARRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked with stripes or bands
Classified under:
Similar:
marked (having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Preventing entry or exit or a course of action
Example:
the blockaded harbor
Synonyms:
barred; barricaded; blockaded
Classified under:
Similar:
obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb bar
Context examples:
She barred her husband's way like an enraged chicken in front of a bulldog.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We closed the outer door and barred and locked it, and bringing the dogs with us, began our search of the house.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The Milky Way, the galaxy we live in, has a barred spiral shape, with arms of stars, gas and dust winding out from a central bar.
(Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center, JPL/NASA)
Derived from a cross between a white cornish male and a barred rock female in the 1930s, modern broilers are an F2 hybrid of broiler breeds characterized by high fecundity and fast growth.
(Broiler Chicken, NCI Thesaurus)
I did once, but I can never hunt again, for I got hurt leaping a confounded five-barred gate, so there are no more horses and hounds for me, said Frank with a sigh that made Beth hate herself for her innocent blunder.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was a large room fitted round with glass presses, furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows barred with iron. The fire burned in the grate; a lamp was set lighted on the chimney shelf, for even in the houses the fog began to lie thickly; and there, close up to the warmth, sat Dr. Jekyll, looking deathly sick.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They left me, during this time, with a very nice man with a very large head of red hair and a very small shiny hat upon it, who had got a cross-barred shirt or waistcoat on, with Skylark in capital letters across the chest.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Derived from a cross between a white cornish male and a barred rock female in the 1930s, modern broiler chickens are an F2 hybrid of broiler breeds characterized by high fecundity and fast growth.
(Broiler Chicken, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It was barred in the morning.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Immense and rugged mountains of ice often barred up my passage, and I often heard the thunder of the ground sea, which threatened my destruction.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
