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CEFRA1

/bɑː/

noun

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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

In context

We're doing the same old routine: going bar hopping and then to karaoke.
Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
The window was protected by steel bars.

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The Chief Medical Officer of London Transport believes that public opinion against smoking will harden to the point of a total bar on the Underground, as in other countries.
1959 May 26, “Accommodation for Non-Smokers”, in Railway Magazine, pages 295-296
Muſt I new bars to my own joy create?
1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act V, page 83
I lived in a hut in the yard. To be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208, column 1
"I might be a fool," the younger man admitted quietly, "even an idiot, but there's not a person living, bar you, who possess the courage to call me a weakling, Sir."
1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter I, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, page 5
These see the overhead wires installed on all bar the slow lines between Bedford and Wellingborough by next May, with the remaining section completed by August, when the full programme is due to be completed.
2019 October, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line upgrade presses on”, in Modern Railways, page 62

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From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.