Barren — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
Barren is used for these senses in English:
- bar A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- bar (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1⁄4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- bar (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- bar (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
- bar To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- bullion A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
- ingot A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
- parallel bars A set of apparatus consisting of two horizontal bars at a small distance apart, upon which acts of swinging and holding and jumping and dips are performed.
bar — full definition
- noun A place that sells alcoholic drinks to be consumed on the premises, or the counter inside it.
- noun A rigid piece of metal, wood, or similar material, much longer than it is wide.
- noun A block-shaped piece of a solid substance, especially soap or chocolate.
- noun Something that blocks or prevents progress; an obstacle.
- noun The legal profession, or the examination lawyers must pass to practise.