Definition of bar Bar
/bÉĖɹ/ - [bar] - baā¢r
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| 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" | ||
| implement instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end | ||
| belaying pin a wood or metal bar to which a rope can be secured (as on a ship or in mountain climbing) | ||
| deadbolt, bolt a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) | ||
| bolt a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) | ||
| carpenter's level a straight bar of light metal with a spirit level in it | ||
| chinning bar a horizontal bar on which you can chin yourself | ||
| core a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil | ||
| crossbar long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts | ||
| drawbar a strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled | ||
| fret a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch | ||
| grab bar a bar attached parallel to a wall to provide a handgrip for steadying yourself | ||
| handlebar the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle | ||
| handspike a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever | ||
| heaver a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) | ||
| lever a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum | ||
| rail any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud | ||
| rotor rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils; "there are horizontal rotors on a helicopter or compressor rotors in a jet engine" | ||
| shackle a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | ||
| slice bar iron bar used to loosen and rake clinkers out of furnaces | ||
| anti-sway bar, stabilizer bar a rigid metal bar between the front suspensions and between the rear suspensions of cars and trucks; serves to stabilize the chassis | ||
| towel bar, towel rail a horizontal bar a few inches from a wall for holding towels | ||
| bar - a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" | ||
| counter table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted | ||
| cash bar a counter at a large party where you can purchase drinks by the glass | ||
| oyster bar a bar (as in a restaurant) that specializes in oysters prepared in different ways | ||
| salad bar a bar where diners can assemble a salad to their own taste | ||
| snack bar, snack counter, buffet usually inexpensive bar | ||
| soda fountain an apparatus for dispensing soda water | ||
| sushi bar a bar where sushi is served | ||
| wet bar a bar for mixing drinks that has a sink with running water | ||
| bar - an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar" | ||
| impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstructor, obstruction the baggage and equipment carried by an army | ||
| goal a successful attempt at scoring; "the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play" | ||
| bar - (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" | ||
| pressure unit a unit measuring force per unit area | ||
| meteorology the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather) | ||
| millibar a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar; "atmospheric pressure at sea level is 1013 millibars" | ||
| bar - (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" | ||
| railing, rail a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports | ||
| courtroom, court respectful deference; "pay court to the emperor" | ||
| bar - a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises | ||
| support a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission; "they called for artillery support" | ||
| high bar, horizontal bar gymnastic apparatus consisting of a bar supported in a horizontal position by uprights at both ends | ||
| bar - a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" | ||
| ridge a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | ||
| barrier a structure or object that impedes free movement | ||
| bar - a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars" | ||
| heating element the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat | ||
| bar - the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" | ||
| prevention | ||
| hinderance, hindrance, interference the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | ||
| averting the act of preventing something from occurring; "averting danger was his responsibility" | ||
| debarment the act of prevention by legal means; "they achieved his debarment from holding public office" | ||
| disqualification the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified | ||
| interception (American football) the act of catching a football by a player on the opposing team | ||
| non-proliferation, nonproliferation the prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons); "they protested that the nonproliferation treaty was just a plot to maintain the hegemony of those who already had nuclear weapons"; "nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation are closely related goals" | ||
| forestalling, obviation, preclusion the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | ||
| prophylaxis the prevention of disease | ||
| save (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save" | ||
| bar - a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" | ||
| stripe, streak | ||
| marking the act of making a visible mark on a surface | ||
| bar - a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" | ||
| barroom, saloon, ginmill, taproom | ||
| room an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" | ||
| gin mill, pothouse, pub, public house, taphouse, saloon tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | ||
| barrelhouse, honky-tonk a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | ||
| cocktail lounge a barroom in a hotel or restaurant where cocktails are served | ||
| sawdust saloon a saloon whose floor is covered with sawdust | ||
| bar - a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" | ||
| cake | ||
| block a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides); "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks" | ||
| bar - the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" | ||
| legal profession, legal community | ||
| profession an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) | ||
| bar - musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" | ||
| measure | ||
| bar - 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 | ||
| Browning automatic rifle, BAR | ||
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| bar - prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" | ||
| debar, exclude | ||
| disallow, nix, prohibit, proscribe, forbid, interdict, veto command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" | ||
| bar - secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" | ||
| unbar remove a bar from (a door) | ||
| fasten, secure, fix attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other" | ||
| bar - render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" | ||
| barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up | ||
| obstruct, block block passage through; "obstruct the path" | ||
| obturate, occlude, impede, obstruct, close up, jam, block be a hindrance or obstacle to; "She is impeding the progress of our project" | ||
| block off, close off, shut off block off the passage through; "We shut off the valve" | ||
| close finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead; "The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning" | ||
| bar - expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" | ||
| banish, relegate | ||
| kick out, expel, throw out force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country" | ||
| spike manifest a sharp increase; "the voltage spiked" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- bar (Noun)
A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. - bar (Noun)
A solid metal object with uniform round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is. 25 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip. - bar (Noun)
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. - bar (Noun)
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart . - bar (Noun)
A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. - bar (Noun)
A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house . - bar (Noun)
The counter of such a premises. - bar (Noun)
A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room. - bar (Noun)
In combinations such as coffee bar , juice bar , etc. , a premises or counter serving non-alcoholic drinks. - bar (Noun)
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity. - bar (Noun)
A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo. - bar (Noun)
The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay. - bar (Noun)
Short for the Bar exam , the legal licensing exam. - bar (Noun)
A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others. - bar (Noun)
A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value. - bar (Noun)
One of those musical sections. - bar (Noun)
A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault . - bar (Noun)
The crossbar. - bar (Noun)
The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit. - bar (Noun)
An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act. - bar (Noun)
A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. - bar (Noun)
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. - bar (Noun)
One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess. - bar (Noun)
An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone. - bar (Noun)
A city gate in UK places names, such as 'Potters Bar. '. - bar (Noun)
A non- SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals. - bar (Verb)
To obstruct the passage of someone or something. - bar (Verb)
To prohibit. - bar (Verb)
To lock or bolt with a bar. - bar (Verb)
To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary š
- bar (n.)
A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door. - bar (n.)
An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap. - bar (n.)
Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. - bar (n.)
A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation. - bar (n.)
Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons. - bar (n.)
The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court. - bar (n.)
The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence. - bar (n.)
The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession. - bar (n.)
A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action. - bar (n.)
Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God. - bar (n.)
A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept. - bar (n.)
An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field. - bar (n.)
A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color. - bar (n.)
A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures. - bar (n.)
The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed. - bar (n.)
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 center of the sole. - bar (n.)
A drilling or tamping rod. - bar (n.)
A vein or dike crossing a lode. - bar (n.)
A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. - bar (n.)
A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar. - bar (n.)
To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate. - bar (n.)
To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. - bar (n.)
To except; to exclude by exception. - bar (n.)
To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ī©
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A business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves -
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A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition. -
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A unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals. -
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To render passage impossible by physical obstruction. -
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A rigid piece of metal or wood, usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon. -
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To accept no longer in a community, group or country, e.g. by official decree. -
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To prevent from entering; to keep out (e.g. of membership). -
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A single piece of a grid, railing, grating, pailing, fence, etc. -
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A block of solid substance (such as soap, wax or chocolate). -
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A horizontal rod used by gymnasts as a support to perform their physical exercises. -
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A counter where you can obtain food or drink. -
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An obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary š
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bƤr, n. a rod of any solid substance: a bolt: a hindrance or obstructionāthe barrier of a city or street, as the bars of York, Temple Bar, a toll-bar: a bank of sand or other matter at the mouth of a river: any terminus or limit (of life)āe.g. as in To cross the bar: the railing that encloses a space in a tavern, the counter across which drinks are served, a public-house: the wooden rail dividing off the judge's seat, at which prisoners are placed for arraignment or sentenceāhence, To appear at the bar, To pass the bar = to be formally referred for trial from a lower court to a higher: any tribunal: the pleaders in a court as distinguished from the judges: a division in music.āv.t. to fasten or secure, as with a bar: to hinder or exclude:āpr.p. barā²ring; pa.p. barred.āns. Barā²-Ä«ā²ron, iron in malleable bars; Barā²maid, a female waiter at the bar of a tavern or hotel.āprep. Barā²ring, excepting, saving.āns. Barā²ring-out, the shutting of the school-room doors and windows by the pupils against the master, in order to enforce assent to their demands; Barā²wood, a kind of red dye-wood imported from Africa in bars. [O. Fr. barreāLow L. barra, perh. of Celt. origin.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine āļø
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of a port or haven, a shoal or bank of sand, gravel, &c. thrown up by the surge of the sea, to the mouth of a river or harbour, so as to endanger, and sometimes totally prevent the navigation.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book āµ
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An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous substances, thrown up by the sea to the mouth of a river or harbour, so as to endanger, and sometimes totally prevent, the navigation into it.--Bars of rivers are some shifting and some permanent. The position of the bar of any river may commonly be guessed by attending to the form of the shores at the embouchure. The shore on which the deposition of sediment is going on will be flat, whilst the opposite one is steep. It is along the side of the latter that the deepest channel of the river lies; and in the line of this channel, but without the points that form the mouth of the river, will be the bar. If both the shores are of the same nature, which seldom happens, the bar will lie opposite the middle of the channel. Rivers in general have what may be deemed a bar, in respect of the depth of the channel within, although it may not rise high enough to impede the navigation--for the increased deposition that takes place when the current slackens, through the want of declivity, and of shores to retain it, must necessarily form a bank. Bars of small rivers may be deepened by means of stockades to confine the river current, and prolong it beyond the natural points of the river's mouth. They operate to remove the place of deposition further out, and into deeper water. Bars, however, act as breakwaters in most instances, and consequently secure smooth water within them. The deposit in all curvilinear or serpentine rivers will always be found at the point opposite to the curve into which the ebb strikes and rebounds, deepening the hollow and depositing on the tongue. Therefore if it be deemed advisable to change the position of a bar, it may be in some cases aided by works projected on the last curve sea-ward. By such means a parallel canal may be forced which will admit vessels under the cover of the bar.--Bar, a boom formed of huge trees, or spars lashed together, moored transversely across a port, to prevent entrance or egress.--Bar, the short bits of bar-iron, about half a pound each, used as the medium of traffic on the Negro coast.--Bar-harbour, one which, from a bar at its entrance, cannot admit ships of great burden, or can only do so at high-water.--Capstan-bars, large thick bars put into the holes of the drumhead of the capstan, by which it is turned round, they working as horizontal radial levers.--Hatch-bars, flat iron bars to lock over the hatches for security from theft, &c.--Port-bar, a piece of wood or iron variously fitted to secure a gun-port when shut.--Bar-shallow, a term sometimes applied to a portion of a bar with less water on it than on other parts of the bar.--Bar-shot, two half balls joined together by a bar of iron, for cutting and destroying spars and rigging. When whole balls are thus fitted they are more properly double-headed shot.--To bar. To secure the lower-deck ports, as above. -
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A small piece of cast-iron introduced across the middle of each link of the larger chain-cables, where, acting as a strengthener, it prevents collapse, and keeps the links endways to each other.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer š„
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A long piece of wood or iron. Bars have various denominations in the construction of artillery-carriages, as sweep- and cross-bars for tumbrils, fore, hind, and under cross-bars for powder-carts, shaft-bars for wagons, and dowel-bars, used in mortar-beds. -
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In heraldry, is one of those important figures or charges known as ordinaries. It is formed by two horizontal lines passing over the shield like the fess, but it differs from it in size,--the fess occupying a third, the bar only a fifth part of the shield. The fess is also confined to the centre, while the bar may be borne in several parts of the shield.
Wikipedia 
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A Bar is originally a long unbent (usually rounded) piece made of metal. It was originally made to spilt a room into two different parts (the one before, and the one behind the bar). Bars or handrails run through courtrooms in some countries. From there, there is the work barrister (who is a specialised lawyer). Lawyers in North America use the phrase "called to the bar" to refer to when a newly-graduated lawyer is admitted to the law society, which entitles them to practise law.
Businesses that serve alcohol.
Later, the meaning got extended, and also meant a long table where alcoholic drinks (such as beer, wine, or liquor) are served. It later came to mean the business where such drinks are served, such as a pub or nightclub. Bars such as pubs and nightclubs also serve snack food. In most countries, bars are regulated and licensed by the regional or local governments, which establish laws regarding the opening hours and serving policies. In Canada and the United States, a liquor tax is placed on the sales of alcoholic beverages. -
music
A bar or measure is used in writing music. Each bar is a small amount of time. Most music has a regular beat (or pulse) which can be felt. Each bar usually has the same number of beats in it. Music that feels like 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4 will be divided into bars with four beats-worth of music in each bar.
The bar line (or barline) is a vertical line which separates the bars.
At the beginning of the music there will be a time signature which shows how many beats there are in each bar.
A double bar does not mean "two bars". It means two single barlines drawn close together, one being thicker than the other. It is a "repeat sign". If there are two dots on the left of the double bar line the player should go back to where there was previously a double bar with two dots on the right, or back to the beginning of the piece.
A double barline without dots shows the end of a piece of music.
The first beat of a bar feels stronger than the others. When a conductor beats time his hand (or baton) always goes DOWN for the first beat of the bar. This feels strong. The last beat of a bar is an "upbeat" because the conductor's hand always goes up.
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unit
The bar (symbol bar), decibar (symbol dbar) and the millibar (symbol mbar, also mb) are units of pressure. They are not SI units, but they are anyhow also used with (although discouraged) for use with the SI. The bar is still used in descriptions of pressure because it is about the same as atmospheric pressure.
Origin.
The word "bar" has its origin in the Greek word "Ī²Ī¬ĻĪæĻ" (baros), meaning weight. Its official symbol is "bar"; the earlier "b" is now no longer used, but still often seen especially as "mb" rather than the correct "mbar" for millibars.
The bar and millibar were defined by Sir Napier Shaw in 1909 and internationally used in 1929.
