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Definition of barred in English: barredadjective bɑːdbɑrd 1Closed or secured with a long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material. he sits by a barred window Example sentencesExamples - At the end of a farm track, we find a barred, barbed-wire-clad gate.
- A horrible cry brought the house servants creeping up to the barred room.
- The building seems to guard its secrets, the barred apertures underscoring its function as a defensive structure.
- The cells are visible, through ordinary barred entries.
- The light-striped canopy resembles a barred cage, where he crouches like an animal.
- His ominous office is a barred detention room lit by an overhead crisscross of harsh neon lights.
- There's a barred grid of windows looking out to a brick-red wall.
- In dread of the Roman soldiery, they returned to the hiding place behind barred doors.
- We witness the characters' first unmediated encounters with the world outside their barred back door.
- The safe is secured by an internal barred door and an external steel door several inches thick.
2Marked with bands of colour or light. Example sentencesExamples - This is no cross-barred handkerchief to carry my dinner!
- I noticed that my normally green-and-white barred jersey was now stained a bright red and deep green.
- My barred rock hen is probably one of my favorite chickens ever!
- The barred-winged rail was a species of bird in the Rallidae family.
- The barred leaf frog is a species found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
- You can tell from the white dots and the red-barred forewings that it's a red admiral butterfly.
- The male lacks the barred throat and breast pattern of the Lichtenstein's sandgrouse.
- She made a signal and they marched out of the blue-barred gateway.
- Juvenile goshawks have disctinctive thick streaks against a buffy background on the underparts, and an irregularly barred tail.
- Within minutes, a woodpecker with a white-barred black mantle and red crown landed on the same tree.
Definition of barred in US English: barredadjectivebärdbɑrd 1Closed or secured with a long rod or rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material. he sits by a barred window Example sentencesExamples - We witness the characters' first unmediated encounters with the world outside their barred back door.
- The building seems to guard its secrets, the barred apertures underscoring its function as a defensive structure.
- The safe is secured by an internal barred door and an external steel door several inches thick.
- At the end of a farm track, we find a barred, barbed-wire-clad gate.
- His ominous office is a barred detention room lit by an overhead crisscross of harsh neon lights.
- There's a barred grid of windows looking out to a brick-red wall.
- The light-striped canopy resembles a barred cage, where he crouches like an animal.
- The cells are visible, through ordinary barred entries.
- A horrible cry brought the house servants creeping up to the barred room.
- In dread of the Roman soldiery, they returned to the hiding place behind barred doors.
2Marked with bands of color or light. Example sentencesExamples - I noticed that my normally green-and-white barred jersey was now stained a bright red and deep green.
- The male lacks the barred throat and breast pattern of the Lichtenstein's sandgrouse.
- The barred leaf frog is a species found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
- The barred-winged rail was a species of bird in the Rallidae family.
- Juvenile goshawks have disctinctive thick streaks against a buffy background on the underparts, and an irregularly barred tail.
- You can tell from the white dots and the red-barred forewings that it's a red admiral butterfly.
- She made a signal and they marched out of the blue-barred gateway.
- Within minutes, a woodpecker with a white-barred black mantle and red crown landed on the same tree.
- My barred rock hen is probably one of my favorite chickens ever!
- This is no cross-barred handkerchief to carry my dinner!
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