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1. n. 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. n. (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. n. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. | |
bar of chocolate | |
bar of soap | |
4. n. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe. | |
a bar of light | |
a bar of colour | |
5. n. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart. | |
6. n. (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. n. (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. n. (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle). | |
9. n. 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. n. The counter of such a premises. | |
Step up to the bar and order a drink. | |
11. n. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room. | |
12. n. (by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type of beverage. | |
13. n. An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served. | |
14. n. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises. | |
a burger bar | |
a local fish bar | |
15. n. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity. | |
The club has lifted its bar on women members. | |
16. n. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. | |
17. n. (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. n. (Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass. | |
19. n. (law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay | |
20. n. (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. n. (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. n. (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. n. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value. | |
24. n. (music) One of those musical sections. | |
25. n. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault | |
26. n. (metaphorical) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome. | |
27. n. (football-most codes) The crossbar | |
28. n. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit. | |
29. n. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act | |
30. n. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. | |
31. n. (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. n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess. | |
33. n. A city gate, in some British place names. | |
Potter's Bar | |
34. n. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod. | |
35. n. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode. | |
36. n. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. | |
37. n. (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. n. (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. n. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level. | |