Definition of "bar"
- noun
A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
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.
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. (For example, turning A into Ⱥ.).
A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
The counter of such a premises.
A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc., a premises or counter serving non-alcoholic drinks.
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
Short for the Bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
One of those musical sections.
A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault.
The crossbar.
The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
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.
One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
A city gate in UK places names, such as 'Potters Bar.'.
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals.
- verb
To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
To prohibit.
To lock or bolt with a bar.
To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- preposition
Except, with the exception of.
Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
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