'Barring' definitions:
Definition of 'barring'
From: WordNet
noun
The act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto [syn: barring, blackball]
Definition of 'Barring'
From: GCIDE
- Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barred (b[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Barring.] [ F. barrer. See Bar, n.]
- 1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. [1913 Webster]
- He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To except; to exclude by exception. [1913 Webster]
- Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines. [1913 Webster]
- For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly. --Burney. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'barring'
From: GCIDE
- barring \bar"ring\ n. the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto.
- Syn: blackball. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'barring'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aside from,
- ban,
- bar,
- beside,
- besides,
- blockade,
- boycott,
- but,
- circumscription,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- demarcation,
- discounting,
- embargo,
- ex,
- except,
- except for,
- excepting,
- exception,
- exception taken of,
- excluding,
- exclusion,
- exclusive of,
- from,
- inadmissibility,
- injunction,
- leaving out,
- less,
- let alone,
- lockout,
- minus,
- narrowing,
- nonadmission,
- not counting,
- off,
- omission,
- omitting,
- outside of,
- precluding,
- preclusion,
- prohibition,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- repudiation,
- restriction,
- save,
- save and except,
- saving,
- taboo,
- than,
- unless,
- without
Words containing 'Barring'
- Bar,
- Barful,
- Barred,
- In bar of,
- bars,
- Bar Harbor,
- Bar Harbor, ME,
- Bar Nunn,
- Bar iron,
- Bar shoe,
- Bar shot,
- Bar sinister,
- Bar tracery,
- Bar'ege,
- Barred owl,
- Bars gemel,
- Blank bar,
- Boring bar,
- Brake bar,
- Call to the bar,
- Capstan bar,
- Case at bar,
- Channel bar,
- Common bar,
- Crown bar,
- Cutter bar,
- Defence in bar,
- Detector bar,
- Diamond Bar,
- Equalizing bar,
- Father of the bar,
- Finger bar,
- Fire bar,
- Fish bar,
- Gill bars,
- Gold Bar,
- Guide bar,
- Matter in bar,
- Merchant bar,
- Mill bar,
- Mosquito bar,
- Muck bar,
- Needle bar,
- Parallel bar,
- Pinching bar,
- Plea in bar,
- Port bar,
- Presser bar,
- Prison bars,
- Radius bar,
- Saddle bar,
- Scrimping bar,
- Shackle bar,
- Sinker bar,
- Slice bar,
- Splinter bar,
- Starting bar,
- Sway bar,
- To call to the bar,
- Toll bar,
- Trial at bar,
- Utter bar,
- apricot bar,
- axle bar,
- bar absolute,
- bar billiards,
- bar bit,
- bar chart,
- bar code,
- bar exam,
- bar examination,
- bar fly,
- bar girl,
- bar graph,
- bar hop,
- bar line,
- bar magnet,
- bar mask,
- bar mitzvah,
- bar printer,
- bar soap,
- bar tin,
- barred pickerel,
- barred woodpecker,
- bastard bar,
- belly up to the bar,
- candy bar,
- carob bar,
- cash bar,
- chinning bar,
- chocolate bar,
- coffee bar,
- color bar,
- colour bar,
- date bar,
- double bar,
- fruit bar,
- gill bar,
- grab bar,
- granola bar,
- hershey bar,
- high bar,
- hitching bar,
- horizontal bar,
- metal bar,
- milk bar,
- nougat bar,
- nut bar,
- oyster bar,
- parallel bars,
- peanut bar,
- pinch bar,
- porter bar,
- pry bar,
- ripping bar,
- salad bar,
- sand bar,
- slide bar,
- snack bar,
- space bar,
- stabilizer bar,
- stall bar,
- stars and bars,
- sushi bar,
- t-bar,
- tamping bar,
- title bar,
- towel bar,
- uneven bars,
- wet bar,
- wine bar,
- wrecking bar,
- Bar Nunn, WY,
- Close-barred,
- Diamond Bar, CA,
- Gold Bar, WA,
- Puddle-bar,
- Sea-bar,
- Special plea in bar,
- bar-shaped,
- black-barred,
- bus-bar,
- handle-bars,
- put behind bars,
- t-bar lift,
- uneven parallel bars,
- K-Bar Ranch,
- Side-bar rule,
- anti-sway bar,
- bar-room plant,
- K-Bar Ranch, TX