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Synonyms for bar
Synonyms for bar: saloon, prevention, disqualify and ingot. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for bar
Interchangeable with bar, one per sense
Audited under bar's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one bar carries in that sense.
- saloonnoun, in the sense "a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter"
- preventionnoun, in the sense "the act of preventing"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name bar as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- disqualifydisqualify is a verb in the sense "to officially remove a competitor from a contest for breaking a rule"
- ingotingot is a noun in the sense "a block of metal cast into a convenient shape for storage or transport"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under bar and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
He drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar.
The true synonym
saloon
Same sentence, swapped: He drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the saloon.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot bar is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- cake
- measure
- floor
the act of preventing
There was no bar against leaving.
The true synonym
prevention
Same sentence, swapped: There was no prevention against leaving.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for bar in the sentence quoted.
- cake
- measure
- complication
Where bar turns up in the game
bar is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where bar is the trap
- publicnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is world, in the sense "people in general considered as a whole", and bar is on the board beside it.
- goldnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is amber, in the sense "a deep yellow color", so bar is there to be ruled out.
- stepnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is stair, in the sense "support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway", so bar is there to be ruled out.
- jimmynoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is jemmy, in the sense "a short crowbar", with bar sitting one tile away.
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The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bar reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bar carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.