Meaning of bar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of Bureau of Automotive Repair
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
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. Alternative spelling of bar.
   alt-of, alternative
5. A town and municipality of Montenegro.
6. A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
7. A town in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.
8. A male or female given name from Hebrew.
9. ISO 639-3 language code for Bavarian
10. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
    countable, uncountable
11. A diminutive of the male given name Barry.
12. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length
13. 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
14. A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ⁄4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip
15. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
    countable, uncountable
16. A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
    countable, uncountable
17. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity
18. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
    countable, uncountable
19. A broad shaft, band, or stripe
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
    countable, uncountable
24. The counter of such premises.
    countable, uncountable
25. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
    countable, uncountable
26. Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
    broadly, countable, in-compounds, uncountable
27. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
    countable, uncountable
28. An establishment offering cosmetic services.
    countable, uncountable
29. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
    countable, uncountable
30. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
    countable, uncountable
31. A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
    countable, uncountable
32. A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
    UK, countable, uncountable
33. The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
    UK, countable, uncountable
34. The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
    Philippines, US, countable, uncountable, usually
35. Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
    countable, metonymically, uncountable
36. 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
37. A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
    countable, uncountable
38. One of those musical sections.
    countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable
39. Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
    countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable
40. Something well-said or well-written.
    broadly, countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable
41. A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
    countable, uncountable
42. Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
43. The crossbar.
    countable, uncountable
44. The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
    countable, uncountable
45. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
    countable, uncountable
46. A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially
    countable, uncountable
47. A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
    countable, uncountable
48. 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
49. One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
    countable, uncountable
50. A city gate, in some British place names.
    countable, uncountable
51. A drilling or tamping rod.
    countable, uncountable
52. A vein or dike crossing a lode.
    countable, uncountable
53. A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
    countable, uncountable
54. 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
55. The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
56. A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
    countable, slang, uncountable
57. A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The window was protected by steel bars.”

“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.”

“bar of chocolate”

“bar of soap”

“a bar of light”

“a bar of colour”

“The street was lined with all-night bars.”

“Step up to the bar and order a drink.”

“a coffee bar”

“a juice bar”

“a burger bar”

“a local fish bar”

“a nail bar”

“a brow bar”

“The club has lifted its bar on women members.”

“The Chief Medical Officer of London Transport believes that public opinion against smoking will harden to the point of a total bar on the Underground, as in other countries.”

“Muſt I new bars to my own joy create?”

“Sexual preference or orientation shall not be a bar to becoming a foster parent.”

“Mr Harding could look back on his initial judgement of Paul's talent with great satisfaction while Paul could reflect that to be Irish was not necessarily a bar to progress.”

“Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux.”

“He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.”

“He was called to the bar.”

He became a barrister.

“I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.”

“That rapper there, yeah, he got bars.”

“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.”

“to set the bar high/low”

“to raise the bar”

“[…] there’s no World War III now, but in the words of the prominent Never Trumper and Atlantic contributor Eliot Cohen, “that’s a pretty low bar.””

“Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar.”

“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.”

“On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways.”

“Temple Bar, London”

“Tell Sick Boy tae gie us a bell if ye see um. The bastard owes us twenty fuckin bar.”

“Barry is there, playing Ms. Pac-Man. "Hey, Bar." "Well, have you met him yet?" Barry asks.”

“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.”

“After Spanish actress Penelope Cruz posted an Instagram story showing released Palestinian prisoners reuniting with their families for the first time, Israeli model Bar Refaeli felt compelled to respond.”

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