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- 1 Acronym of bright, alert, responsive. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, slang
"Anytime you notice your horse is ADR instead of BAR, it's time to get on the phone to your vet."
- 1 Alternative spelling of bar. alt-of, alternative
- 2 A town and municipality of Montenegro.
- 3 A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
- 4 A town in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.
- 5 A male or female given name from Hebrew.
"Defense Minister Israel Katz paid a visit to released hostage Bar Kuperstein, who was an off-duty soldier when he was abducted by Hamas terrorists from the Nova party near Re’im on October 7, 2023."
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- 6 Acronym of Bureau of Automotive Repair abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 7 A diminutive of the male given name Barry.
"Barry is there, playing Ms. Pac-Man. "Hey, Bar." "Well, have you met him yet?" Barry asks."
- 1 A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. countable, uncountable
"The window was protected by steel bars."
- 2 A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- 3 Initialism of Browning automatic rifle. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 4 the act of preventing wordnet
- 5 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. countable, uncountable
"Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money."
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- 6 a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon wordnet
- 7 A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. countable, uncountable
"bar of chocolate"
- 8 an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal wordnet
- 9 A broad shaft, band, or stripe. countable, uncountable
"a bar of light"
- 10 a counter where you can obtain food or drink wordnet
- 11 A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart. countable, uncountable
- 12 (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried wordnet
- 13 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. countable, uncountable
- 14 a heating element in an electric fire wordnet
- 15 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. countable, uncountable
- 16 a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises wordnet
- 17 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). countable, uncountable
- 18 a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter wordnet
- 19 A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house. countable, uncountable
"The street was lined with all-night bars."
- 20 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 wordnet
- 21 The counter of such premises. countable, uncountable
"Step up to the bar and order a drink."
- 22 a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) wordnet
- 23 A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room. countable, uncountable
- 24 a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background wordnet
- 25 Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage. broadly, countable, in-compounds, uncountable
"a coffee bar"
- 26 musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats wordnet
- 27 An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises. countable, uncountable
"a burger bar"
- 28 the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction wordnet
- 29 An establishment offering cosmetic services. countable, uncountable
"a nail bar"
- 30 a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore wordnet
- 31 An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity. countable, uncountable
"The club has lifted its bar on women members."
- 32 (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter wordnet
- 33 Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. countable, uncountable
"Muſt I new bars to my own joy create?"
- 34 A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo. countable, uncountable
"Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux."
- 35 A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass. UK, countable, uncountable
- 36 The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay. UK, countable, uncountable
- 37 The bar exam, the legal licensing exam. Philippines, US, countable, uncountable, usually
"He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before."
- 38 Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others. countable, metonymically, uncountable
"He was called to the bar."
- 39 One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining. countable, uncountable
"I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert."
- 40 A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value. countable, uncountable
- 41 One of those musical sections.; Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully. countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable
"That rapper there, yeah, he got bars."
- 42 One of those musical sections.; Something well-said or well-written. broadly, countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable
"His musical journey, and this is a quote, is “a constant push and pull between self awareness and delusion”. That’s bars right there to be honest."
- 43 A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault. countable, uncountable
- 44 Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"to set the bar high/low"
- 45 The crossbar. countable, uncountable
"Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar."
- 46 The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit. countable, uncountable
- 47 An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act. countable, uncountable
- 48 A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially countable, uncountable
- 49 A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:; A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501). countable, uncountable
"Travellers change at Batoum into a steamer which performs the service between that port and Poti, and which has a less draught of water to enable it to cross the bar of the river Rion."
- 50 One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess. countable, uncountable
"On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways."
- 51 A city gate, in some British place names. countable, uncountable
"Temple Bar, London"
- 52 A drilling or tamping rod. countable, uncountable
- 53 A vein or dike crossing a lode. countable, uncountable
- 54 A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. countable, uncountable
- 55 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. countable, uncountable
- 56 The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed. countable, in-plural, uncountable
- 57 A measure of drugs, typically one ounce. countable, slang, uncountable
"Tell Sick Boy tae gie us a bell if ye see um. The bastard owes us twenty fuckin bar."
- 58 A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters. countable, uncountable
- 1 Except, other than, besides.
"He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife."
- 2 Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
"Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar."
- 1 To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). transitive
"Our way was barred by a huge rockfall."
- 2 prevent from entering; keep out wordnet
- 3 To prohibit. transitive
"I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred."
- 4 secure with, or as if with, bars wordnet
- 5 To lock or bolt with a bar. transitive
"to bar the door"
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- 6 render unsuitable for passage wordnet
- 7 To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
"I lived in a hut in the yard. To be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight."
- 8 expel, as if by official decree wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.
From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer, from Medieval Latin barrare (“to bar”), from the noun. Cognate to Occitan barrar, Spanish barrar, Portuguese barrar. Preposition properly imperative of the verb. Compare barring.
From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer, from Medieval Latin barrare (“to bar”), from the noun. Cognate to Occitan barrar, Spanish barrar, Portuguese barrar. Preposition properly imperative of the verb. Compare barring.
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.
From Serbo-Croatian Bȃr.
Shortenings.
From Ukrainian Бар (Bar).
From בר.
See also for "bar"
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