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# unbar

«unbar» in Mova's school dictionary: **to lift the bar, the heavy bolt across it, so that it can…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (unbar, unbars, unbarred, unbarring)

### meaning for a pupil

To unbar a door is to lift the bar, the heavy bolt across it, so that it can open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbar/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and old houses a door is locked with a bar; a hero unbars it to let someone in or out; the opposite of bar

### examples

- Peter will not unbar the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbar/#x1)
- The guard unbars the gate and lets the cart through. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbar/#x2)
- Please unbar the back door so we can go out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbar/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unbar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.