| bar | |
| 1. s. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. | |
| The window was protected by steel bars. | |
| 2. s. (metallurgy) 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 | |
| Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money. | |
| We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow. | |
| 3. s. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. | |
| bar of chocolate | |
| bar of soap | |
| 4. s. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe. | |
| a bar of light | |
| a bar of colour | |
| 5. s. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart. | |
| 6. s. (typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨!⟩, fraction bar (as in12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly(obsolete) inclusive of oblique marks such as the slash | |
| 7. s. (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 mantiss | |
| 8. s. (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle). | |
| 9. s. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house. | |
| The street was lined with all-night bars. | |
| 10. s. The counter of such a premises. | |
| Step up to the bar and order a drink. | |
| 11. s. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room. | |
| 12. s. (by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type of beverage. | |
| 13. s. An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served. | |
| 14. s. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises. | |
| a burger bar | |
| a local fish bar | |
| 15. s. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity. | |
| The club has lifted its bar on women members. | |
| 16. s. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. | |
| 17. s. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo. | |
| Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar. | |
| 18. s. (Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass. | |
| 19. s. (law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay | |
| 20. s. (US, law) "the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam. | |
| He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before. | |
| 21. s. (law, metonym, "the Bar", "the bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others. | |
| He was called to the bar, he became a barrister. | |
| 22. s. (telecommunications) A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself. | |
| I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert. | |
| 23. s. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value. | |
| 24. s. (music) One of those musical sections. | |
| 25. s. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault | |
| 26. s. (metaphorical) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome. | |
| 27. s. (football-most codes) The crossbar | |
| 28. s. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit. | |
| 29. s. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act | |
| 30. s. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. | |
| 31. s. (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 obstru | |
| 32. s. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess. | |
| 33. s. A city gate, in some British place names. | |
| Potter's Bar | |
| 34. s. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod. | |
| 35. s. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode. | |
| 36. s. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. | |
| 37. s. (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. | |
| 38. s. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed. | |
| 39. v. To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). | |
| Our way was barred by a huge rockfall. | |
| 40. v. To prohibit. | |
| I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred. | |
| 41. v. To lock or bolt with a bar. | |
| bar the door | |
| 42. v. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe. | |
| 43. prep. Except, other than, besides. | |
| He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife. | |
| 44. prep. (horse racing) 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. | |
| 45. s. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level. | |
