bar
IPA: bˈɑr
noun
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- The counter of such premises.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (music) One of those musical sections.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (slang, hip-hop) A complimentary reference to a rapper's lyrics, especially when good.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- A town and municipality of Montenegro
- A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
- A city in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine
- (legal senses) Alternative spelling of bar. [A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.]
- (military) Initialism of Browning Automatic Rifle.
verb
- (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- (transitive) To prohibit.
- (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
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Examples of "bar" in Sentences
- They often carouse in the bar.
- A part of the bar is cylindrical.
- The dancer entertains on the bar.
- At the bar, I heard the threnody.
- Click the grip to collapse the bar.
- The bar tender dragged Patrick out of the bar.
- When did the Asymmetric Bars in gymnastics become the Uneven Bars
- Locking means engages the slide bar to prevent retraction of the bar.
- He manages to get over the bar and Shaun uses the cocktail to ignite the bar.
- The pond is excavated in the gravel bar and filled from the natural water table.
- Between the title bar, menu bar, tabbed sites and the Windows start bar, around 40 per cent of the screen gets chewed up.
- Put your mouse pointer on the title bar of that window, literally give it a "shake," and all other open programs minimize and disappear.
- I'm not going to pretend that these or any granola bar, a category of foods filled with high-fructose corn syrup and other stuff is any healthier than a candy bar*, but it's so damned good.
- I know I'm using one at least one or two versions old although it appears that the biggest change was just the start button and such, the shading on the title bar which is what seems to catch peoples' eyes is still the same
- According to Ulrich von Hutten the elephant 'fuit mirabile animal, habens longum rostrum in magna quantitate; et quando vidit Papam tunc geniculavit ei et dixit cum terribili voce _bar, bar, bar_' (apud Theophilo Braga, _Gil Vicente e as
- The only window-based interface element in the QuickTime X Player is reportedly the title bar, which is reminiscent of the iPhone's semi-transparent black glass interface while also adopting hues from the video frames playing beneath it.
- The currents are very rapid, and carry with them quantities of sand, which the sea throws back towards the coast; this it is that forms a bar at the mouth of the river; but the currents have opened themselves a passage, which is called the _pass of the bar_.
- I find in the music of the _Fandango_, written under one bar, _Salida_, which signifies _going out_; it is where the woman is to part a little from her partner, and to move slowly by herself; and I suppose it was at _that bar_ the lady was so overcome, as to determine not to return.
- It must be remembered that the boats had entered the Niger by the _Brass_ river, the bar of which was _his bar_, and that he had bargained to act as pilot through its mouth, so that there was ample excuse for the poor wretch; this, however, in no degree lessened the danger of the position in which the little _Lark_ was placed.