different between rebar vs debar

English

Etymology 1

Blend of reinforcing +? bar

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?.b??(?)/

Noun

rebar (countable and uncountable, plural rebars)

1. (countable) A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure.
2. (uncountable) A grid-shaped system of such bars.

Translations

Verb

rebar (third-person singular simple present rebars, present participle rebarring, simple past and past participle rebarred)

1. (transitive) To reinforce with bars of this kind.

Etymology 2

re- +? bar

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i??b??(?)/

Verb

rebar (third-person singular simple present rebars, present participle rebarring, simple past and past participle rebarred)

1. (transitive) To bar again.

   After allowing the stranger to enter, she rebarred the door.

2. (music, transitive) To redistribute the notes of a musical score across the bars, e.g. when changing time signature.

Anagrams

• Barre, Berra, Raber, aberr, arber, barer, barre, berra

Latin

Verb

r?bar

1. first-person singular imperfect active indicative of reor

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman debarrer

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??b??(?)/

Verb

debar (third-person singular simple present debars, present participle debarring, simple past and past participle debarred)

1. (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.

   • As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.
2. (transitive) to hinder or prevent.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 28:

     How can I then return in happy plight,

     That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?

3. (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.

Usage notes

• Sense 2 is not to be confused with disbar.

Derived terms

• debarment

Translations

Anagrams

• Bader, Beard, Breda, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, beard, bread

Ido

Etymology

Same as devar.

Verb

debar (present tense debas, past tense debis, future tense debos, imperative debez, conditional debus)

1. to owe (something to someone), be under obligation (to someone, for something)

Conjugation

Paronyms

• devar (“should”)