bar

A1
Pronunciation
/bɑː/
/bɑɹ/
Noun
40 definition(s)
1 Definition

A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

Example Sentences
  • The window was protected by steel bars.
2 Definition

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.

Example Sentences
  • Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
3 Definition

A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

Example Sentences
  • bar of chocolate
4 Definition

A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.

Example Sentences
  • a bar of colour
5 Definition

A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.

6 Definition

Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly including oblique marks such as the slash.

7 Definition

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.

8 Definition

A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).

9 Definition

A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.

Synonyms
barroom ginshop pub public house tavern
Example Sentences
  • The street was lined with all-night bars.
10 Definition

The counter of such premises.

Example Sentences
  • Step up to the bar and order a drink.
11 Definition

A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.

12 Definition

(by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.

13 Definition

An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

14 Definition

An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.

Example Sentences
  • a burger bar
15 Definition

An establishment offering cosmetic services.

Example Sentences
  • a nail bar; a brow bar
16 Definition

An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

Synonyms
ban prohibition
Example Sentences
  • The club has lifted its bar on women members.
17 Definition

Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.

18 Definition

(whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.

Example Sentences
  • Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.
19 Definition

(Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.

20 Definition

The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay

21 Definition

"the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.

Example Sentences
  • He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
22 Definition

(metonym, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.

Example Sentences
  • He was called to the bar, he became a barrister.
23 Definition

One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.

Example Sentences
  • I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.
24 Definition

A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.

25 Definition

One of those musical sections.

Synonyms
measure
26 Definition

A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault

27 Definition

Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.

28 Definition

(most codes) The crossbar.

29 Definition

The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.

30 Definition

An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act

31 Definition

A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.

32 Definition

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).

33 Definition

One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.

34 Definition

A city gate, in some British place names.

Example Sentences
  • Potter's Bar
35 Definition

A drilling or tamping rod.

36 Definition

A vein or dike crossing a lode.

37 Definition

A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

38 Definition

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.

39 Definition

(in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

40 Definition

A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Verb
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

Example Sentences
  • Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
2 Definition

To prohibit.

Example Sentences
  • I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
3 Definition

To lock or bolt with a bar.

Example Sentences
  • bar the door
4 Definition

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

Preposition
2 definition(s)
1 Definition

Except, other than, besides.

Example Sentences
  • He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
2 Definition

Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.

Example Sentences
  • Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.