bar

Noun

bar (plural bars)

1. A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
2. (metallurgy) a bar (a solid object with uniform cross-section) of round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular cross-section whose smallest dimension is .25 in. or greater (US), a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
3. A cuboid piece of any commodity.

   bar of chocolate

   bar of soap

   iron bar

4. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
5. A business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
6. The counter of such a premises
7. A similar device or simply a closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room.
8. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
9. (computing, whimsical, derived from fubar) Used to stand for some unspecified entity, usually a second entity following foo.

   Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar

10. (legal: the Bar) Short for the Bar Exam, the legal licensing exam.

    He"s studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he"s failed it twice before.

11. (British: the Bar) A collective term for barristers.
12. (British: the Bar) (loosely) The profession of barristers.
13. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
14. (music) One of these musical sections.
15. (soccer) The crossbar
16. An addition to a miltary medal caused by a subsequent act
17. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
18. (nautical) 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).
19. (heraldry) An honourable ordinary, occupying one-fifth of the shield.

Synonyms:

• (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages): pub (British), public house, tavern
• (official order prohibiting some activity): ban, prohibition
• (section of a staff, in music): measure

3 letters in word "bar": A B R.

Anagrams of bar:

• arb

• bra

Words found within bar:

ab ar ba

• Definitions:
• barroom: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" measure: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar" prevention: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter" a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" legal profession: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" cake: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" Browning automatic rifle: a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises barricade: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars" banish: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar" secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door"
• Ibar is a Basque word and a linguistic root (i)bar meaning 'valley'.
• The bar (symbol bar) and the millibar (symbol mbar, also mb) are units of pressure. They are not SI units, but accepted (although discouraged) for use with the SI. The bar is still widely used in descriptions of pressure because it is about the same as atmospheric pressure.
• In musical notation, a bar or measure is a segment of time defined as a given number of beats of a given duration. The word measure is heard more frequently in the U.S., while bar is used in other English-speaking countries, although musicians generally understand both usages. ...
• A tavern is, loosely, a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and, more than likely, also be served food, though not licenced to put up guests. ...
• A bar is the counter where drinks are mixed by a bartender, mainly in hotels, taverns and pubs. This term is applied as a synecdoche to drinking establishments called bars.
• A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother is a matronymic, or matronym. Both are means to convey lineage.
• A bar is a linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. Bars tend to be long and narrow (linear) and develop where a current (or waves) promote deposition of granular material, resulting in localized shallowing (shoaling) of the water. ...
• A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme. It may be used as a diacritic to derive new letters from old ones, or simply as an addition to make a grapheme more distinct from others.
• A bar is a business that sells alcoholic beverages for immediate on-premises consumption. Contrary to popular belief, there is no discernible difference between bars, pubs, and taverns.
• Bar is a metasyntactic variable used heavily in computer science to represent concepts abstractly and can be used to represent any part of a complicated system or idea including the data, variables, functions, and commands just to name a few. ...
• A unit of pressure equal to 10 6 dyne cm ?2 (10 6 barye), 1000 millibars, 29.53 inches of mercury.
• An ordinary which crosses the shield horizontally. It differs from a fesse in that it occupies only one-fifth of the field. There is room for but four bars on a shield.
• Large mass of sand or earth, formed by the surge of the sea. They are mostly found at the entrances of great rivers or havens, and often render navigation extremely dangerous, but confer tranquility once inside. See also: Touch and go, grounding. ...
• To be barred from betting at a sportsbook is to be told that no more bets will be accepted from you.
• natural accumulation of sand, gravel, or alluvium forming an underwater or exposed embankment (ledge, reef, sandbar, shoal, spit).
• An obstacle formed at the shallow entrance to the mouth of a river or bay.
• A musical unit consisting of a fixed number of beats—also known as a measure.
• The darker element of a printed bar code symbol.
• A region of shallow water usually made of sand or mud, usually running parallel to the shore. Bars are caused by wave and current action, and may not be shown on a chart.
• general term referring to a group of attorneys - example: "The Bar of the 26th Judicial District is active in community issues."
• an offshore ridge of sand, pebbles or other similar unconsolidated material, found near the mouth of a river or estuary, or lying parallel to and a short distance from the beach or shore
• A unit of measurement of water pressure approximately equivalent to a column of water 10m high or 14.5 lbf/in2 or 100 kPa. per bar.
• 1. Historically, the partition separating the general public from the space occupied by the judges, lawyers, and other participants in a trial. 2. More commonly, the term means the whole body of lawyers.
• a) When a casino retricts a player from the use of their games, otherwise know as “86”.
• means 1 BAR = 100 kPa (14.5 psi).
• A bar linking both sides of the suspension. It resists sway on turns by taking some of the added load from one wheel and putting it on the other.
• Submerged or emerged embankment of sand, gravel, or other unconsolidated material built in shallow water by waves and currents.
• The enclosed horizontal stroke in characters 'A', 'H', and 'e'.
• a barrier in the courtroom which separates the court from the public; a term used to describe the members of the legal profession or lawyers as a group - “members of the bar”; the term “called to the bar” refers to the court proceeding when a law student is called by the court to be a ...
• 1) Vertical line through a musical staff dividing it into measures. 2) A measure.
• The sum of the fitnesses of the genotypes of a population weighted by their proportions; hence a weighted mean fitness.
• In wristwatch-cases, a thin metal rod fixed between the horns, for attaching the wristlet.
• A term meaning lawyers or lawyer associations.
• The IS Metric unit of pressure equal to one million Dynes per square centimeter. One Bar is equal to 14.5038 pounds per square inch (PSI) . It is also nearly equivalent to one atmosphere of pressure.
• A bar is a unit of pressure. One bar is equal to the pressure that the Earth's atmosphere exerts at sea level. ...

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