barred

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barred

provided with bars, as a prison; banned: They barred the windows against intruders.

Not to be confused with:

bard – a poet; the bard: William Shakespeare

barred

(bärd)

adj.

Marked with bars or stripes: barred prison cells; barred plumage on a bird.

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barred

(bɑrd)

adj.

1. provided with one or more bars: a barred prison window.

2. striped; streaked: barred fabrics.

3. (of feathers) marked with transverse bands of distinctive color.

[1300–50]

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Adj.	1.	barred - preventing entry or exit or a course of action; "a barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded harbor" barricaded, blockaded obstructed - shut off to passage or view or hindered from action; "a partially obstructed passageway"; "an obstructed view"; "justice obstructed is not justice"
	2.	barred - marked with stripes or bands marked - having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination; "played with marked cards"; "a scar-marked face"; "well-marked roads"

Translations

munito di sbarre sbarrato striato

barred

[bɑːʳd] ADJ [window etc] → enrejado, con reja

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

barred

[ˈbæ^rd] adj [door] → barricadé(e)

barred

adj

suf five-barred gate → Weidengatter nt → (mit fünf Querbalken)

barred window → Gitterfenster nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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The quagga, though so plainly barred like a zebra over the body, is without bars on the legs; but Dr.

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which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes' western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zone.

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The Yellow Room has but one barred window--the bars of which have not been moved--and only one door, which had to be broken open--and the assassin was not found!"