barrer

From bar +‎ -er.

barrer (plural barrers)

1. One who or that which bars.
   • 1976, Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Elie Zahar, Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery:

     The worst merely bars some exceptions without looking at the proof at all. Hence the mystification when we have the proof on the one hand and the exceptions on the other. In the mind of such primitive exception-barrers, the proof and the exceptions exist in two completely separate compartments.

Named after New Zealand-born chemist Richard Barrer.

barrer (plural barrers)

1. A non-SI unit of gas permeability.

From barre +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁe/ ~ /bɑ.ʁe/

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barrer

1. to bar, bar up (to lock or bolt with a bar)
2. to bar off
3. to cross out, strike out (put written lines through written text, to show it is erroneous)
4. (pronominal, colloquial) to go away, to leave, to fuck off

   Synonyms: se casser, se tirer

   Barre-toi ! ― Get out!

5. (North America) to lock (a door etc.; not necessarily with a bar)

• mal barré
• se barrer

• “barrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

barrer

1. to sweep

barrer m

1. indefinite plural of barre

Inherited from Latin verrere. Cognate with Portuguese varrer and Galician varrer.

• IPA^(key): /baˈreɾ/ [baˈreɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: ba‧rrer

barrer (first-person singular present barro, first-person singular preterite barrí, past participle barrido)

1. (transitive) to sweep

• Papiamentu: bari

• “barrer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024