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.
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