To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
To prohibit.
To lock or bolt with a bar.
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.
Except, other than, besides.
Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
To be spent or used up.
To belong (somewhere).
To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
To make the (specified) sound.
To fit.
To urinate or defecate.
To tend (toward a result).
To be lost.
To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
I woke up just before the clock went.
To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
Let's go halves on this.
Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
To continuously or habitually be in a state.
I went at him with a knife.
To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
To attend.
To be sold.
To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
Synonyms: become, turn, change into
To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
To sound; to make a noise.
To leave; to move away.
To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
To come to (a certain condition or state).
To start; to begin (an action or process).
To work (through or over), especially mentally.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
To attack.
To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
To date.
Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
Synonyms: function, work, operate
To break down or decay.
To be accepted.
We've only gone twenty miles today.
To be valid.
To have a certain record.
To take a turn, especially in a game.
To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
To be out.
To resort (to).
To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
To yield or weigh.
Those babies go five tons apiece.
To be discarded or disposed of.
To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
To lead (to a place); to give access to.
To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
Anything goes around here.
Why don’t you go with us?
Let's go this way for a while.
To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
To fight or attack.
How long can you go without water?
To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
To collapse or give way, to break apart.
Expressing encouragement or approval.
To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
To die.
To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
To travel or pass along.
To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
An attempt, a try.
An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
An act; the working or operation.
A period of activity.
Synonym: green light
A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
The act of going.
Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.