bar vs bolt

To lock or bolt with a bar. 

To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). 

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe. 

To prohibit. 

An establishment offering cosmetic services. 

Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage. 

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. 

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

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). 

The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit. 

A broad shaft, band, or stripe. 

The bar exam, the legal licensing exam. 

A drilling or tamping rod. 

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

An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act. 

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

A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. 

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

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

The counter of such premises. 

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. 

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

The crossbar. 

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

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

A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. 

An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served. 

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

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

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

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

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. 

A city gate, in some British place names. 

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

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

One of those musical sections. 

A vein or dike crossing a lode. 

A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. 

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

A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. 

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

An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity. 

A measure of drugs, typically one ounce. 

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

To secure a door by locking or barring it. 

To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed. 

To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. 

To escape. 

To sift, especially through a cloth. 

To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted). 

To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly. 

To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour. 

To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt. 

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. 

To swallow food without chewing it. 

To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. 

To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink. 

To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party. 

To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. 

A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult. 

The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards. 

A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. 

A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm. 

A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. 

A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw. 

A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party. 

A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc). 

A burst of speed or efficiency. 

A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open. 

A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. 

An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. 

A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism. 

A sudden event, action or emotion. 

A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth. 

A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.