barred

«barred» in Mova's school dictionary: Not allowed to go in or to do something: banned — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (barred); verb past form of bar (bar, bars, barred, barring)

meaning for a pupil

1) Not allowed to go in or to do something: banned. tree →

2) Having bars across it, like a barred window or gate. tree →

3) Having stripes of colour, like a barred owl's feathers. tree →

4) (past form of bar) Blocked a way, or stopped someone. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life it means banned from a place or activity ("barred from the club"). In stories it describes locked or blocked windows, gates and roads, often in castles or prisons. In nature it describes striped feathers or fur. Phrases: "barred from", "barred the way", "no holds barred" (with no rules).

examples

• He was barred from the game for cheating. tree →
• The prison had barred windows. tree →
• A fallen tree barred the road. tree →
• Dogs are barred from the playground. tree →
• The barred owl has striped feathers on its chest. tree →
• The guards barred the castle gate at night. tree →
• The debate was no holds barred. tree →
• As he crossed the threshold fifteen armed Turks barred his way, with the Sultan at their head. tree →

note

Past form of "bar" doubles the r: bar, barred, barring. Do not confuse "barred" with "bard" (a poet), which sounds the same. "Barred from" means not allowed.

In the corpora

• The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, with a bar of stars across its centre and spiral arms curling out from it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «barred» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.