Definitions for bar
bɑrbar

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1. barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproomnoun

   a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter

   "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar"

2. barnoun

   a counter where you can obtain food or drink

   "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar"

3. barnoun

   a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon

   "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape"

4. measure, barnoun

   musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats

   "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song"

5. barnoun

   an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal

   "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar"

6. prevention, barnoun

   the act of preventing

   "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"

7. barnoun

   (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter

   "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter"

8. barnoun

   a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore

   "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river"

9. legal profession, bar, legal communitynoun

   the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction

   "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey"

10. stripe, streak, barnoun

    a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background

    "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave"

11. cake, barnoun

    a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)

    "a bar of chocolate"

12. Browning automatic rifle, BARnoun

    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

13. barnoun

    a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises

14. barnoun

    a heating element in an electric fire

    "an electric fire with three bars"

15. barverb

    (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried

    "spectators were not allowed past the bar"

16. bar, debar, excludeverb

    prevent from entering; keep out

    "He was barred from membership in the club"

17. barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, barverb

    render unsuitable for passage

    "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"

18. banish, relegate, barverb

    expel, as if by official decree

    "he was banished from his own country"

19. barverb

    secure with, or as if with, bars

    "He barred the door"

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1. Barnoun

   A city in Montenegro.

2. Etymology: From barre, from barre

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BARnoun

   Etymology: barre, Fr.

   1. A piece of wood, iron, or other matter, laid cross a passage to hinder entrance.

   And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other. Exodus, xxxvi. 33.

   2. A bolt; a piece of iron or wood fastened to a door, and entering into the post or wall to hold it.

   The fish-gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams, thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. Nehem. iii. 3.

   3. Any obstacle which hinders or obstructs.

   I brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, hitherto shalt thou come, and no farther. Job, xxxviii. 10.

   And had his heir surviv’d him in due course,
   What limits, England, hadst thou found? what bar?
   What world could have resisted? Samuel Daniel, Civil War.

   Hard, thou know’st it, to exclude
   Spiritual substance with corporeal bar. Parad. Lost, b. iv.

   Must I new bars to my own joy create,
   Refuse myself, what I had forc’d from fate? John Dryden, Aureng.

   Fatal accidents have set
   A most unhappy bar between your friendship. Nicholas Rowe, Ambitious Stepmother.

   4. A rock, or bank of sand, at the entrance of a harbour or river, which ships cannot sail over at low water.5. Any thing used for prevention.

   Lest examination should hinder and lett your proceedings, behold, for a bar against that impediment, one opinion newly added. Richard Hooker, Preface.

   Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze to be
   The founder of this law, and female bar. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

   6. The place where causes of law are tried, or where criminals are judged; so called from the bar placed to hinder crouds from incommoding the court.

   The great duke
   Came to the bar, where, to his accusations,
   He pleaded still not guilty. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   Some at the bar with subtlety defend,
   Or on the bench the knotty laws untye. John Dryden, Juvenal.

   7. An inclosed place in a tavern or coffeehouse, where the housekeeper sits and receives reckonings.

   I was under some apprehension that they would appeal to me; and therefore laid down my penny at the bar, and made the best of my way. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 403.

   8. In law.A peremptory exception against a demand or plea brought by the defendant in an action, that destroys the action of the plaintiff for ever. It is divided into a bar to common intent, and a bar special: a bar to a common intent, is an ordinary or general bar, that disables the declaration or plea of the plaintiff: a bar special, is that which is more than ordinary, and falls out in the case in hand, upon some special circumstance of the fact. John Cowell

   Bastardy is laid in bar of something that is principally commenced. John Ayliffe, Parergon.

   9. Any thing by which the compages or structure is held together.

   I went down to the bottoms of the mountains: the earth, with her bars, was about me for ever. Jonah, ii. 6.

   10. Any thing which is laid across another, as bars in heraldry.11. Bar of gold, or silver, is a lump or wedge from the mines, melted down into a sort of mould, and never wrought.12. Bars of a horse. The upper part of the gums between the tusks and grinders, which bears no teeth, and to which the bit is applied, and, by its friction, the horse governed.13. Bars, in musick, are strokes drawn perpendicularly across the lines of a piece of musick; used to regulate the beating or measure of musical time.

2. To Barverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To fasten or shut any thing with a bolt, or bar.

   My duty cannot suffer
   T’ obey in all your daughter’s hard commands;
   Though their injunction be to bar my doors,
   And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   When you bar the window-shutters of your lady’s bedchamber at nights, leave open the sashes to let in the air. Jonathan Swift, Directions to the Chambermaid.

   2. To hinder; to obstruct.

   When law can do no right,
   Let it be lawful, that law bar no wrong. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

   3. To prevent.

   The houses of the country were all scattered, and yet not so far off as that it barred mutual succour. Philip Sidney, b. i.

   Doth it not seem a thing very probable, that God doth purposely add, Do after my judgments; as giving thereby to understand, that his meaning in the former sentence was but to bar similitude in such things as were repugnant to his ordinances, laws, and statutes? Richard Hooker.

   4. To shut out from.

   Hath he set bounds between their love and me?
   I am their mother; who shall bar them from me? William Shakespeare, Richard III.

   Our hope of Italy not only lost,
   But shut from ev’ry shore, and barr’d from ev’ry coast. Dryd.

   5. To exclude from a claim.

   God hath abridged it, by barring us from some things of themselves indifferent. Richard Hooker, b. ii. § 4.

   Give my voice on Richard’s side,
   To bar my master’s heirs in true descent!
   God knows I will not. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

   His civil acts do bind and bar them all;
   And as from Adam, all corruption take,
   So, if the father’s crime be capital,
   In all the blood, law doth corruption make. John Davies.

   It was thought sufficient not only to exclude them from that benefit, but to bar them from their money. Edward Hyde.

   If he is qualified, why is he barred the profit, when he only performs the conditions? Jeremy Collier, on Pride.

   6. To prohibit.

   For though the law of arms doth bar
   The use of venom’d shot in war. Hudibras.

   What is a greater pedant than a mere man of the town?
   Bar him the playhouses, and you strike him dumb. Addison.

   7. To except; to make an exception.

   Well, we shall see your bearing. ——
   —— Nay, but I bar to-night; you shall not gage me
   By what we do to-night. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   8. In law. To hinder the process of a suit.

   But buff and belt men never know these cares;
   No time, nor trick of law, their action bars:
   Their cause they to an easier issue put. John Dryden, Juvenal.

   From such delays as conduce to the finding out of truth, a criminal cause ought not to be barred. John Ayliffe, Parergon.

   If a bishop be a party to a suit, and excommunicates his adversary, such excommunication shall not disable or bar his adversary. John Ayliffe, Parergon.

   9. To bar a vein. This is an operation performed upon the veins of the legs of a horse, and other parts, with intent to stop the malignant humours. It is done by opening the skin above it, disengaging it, and tying it both above and below, and striking between two ligatures.

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1. bar

   A bar can refer to several things based on the context: 1. A business establishment where alcoholic beverages are served, often across a counter. 2. A rectangular piece of any of several forms of matter; such as, a bar of soap or gold. 3. A long, narrow, rigid piece of metal, wood, or similar material. 4. In music, it represents a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value. 5. In law, it refers to the profession or institution of legal practitioners or the specific area in a courtroom where the defendant sits during a trial. 6. In graphs and charts, it is a rectangular shape used to represent data. 7. In sports, it can refer to a physical obstacle that participants need to jump over or pass under. 8. In computer science, it could refer to a digital presentation of information, such as a scroll bar or progress bar. 9. In baking, it can be a type of cake that is typically rectangular and baked in a sheet pan; for example, brownies or lemon bars. Please provide additional context for a more specific definition.

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1. Barnoun

   a piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door

2. Barnoun

   an indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap

3. Barnoun

   anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier

4. Barnoun

   a bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation

5. Barnoun

   any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons

6. Barnoun

   the railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court

7. Barnoun

   the place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence

8. Barnoun

   the whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession

9. Barnoun

   a special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action

10. Barnoun

    any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God

11. Barnoun

    a barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept

12. Barnoun

    an ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field

13. Barnoun

    a broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color

14. Barnoun

    a vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures

15. Barnoun

    the space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed

16. Barnoun

    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 center of the sole

17. Barnoun

    a drilling or tamping rod

18. Barnoun

    a vein or dike crossing a lode

19. Barnoun

    a gatehouse of a castle or fortified town

20. Barnoun

    a slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar

21. Barnoun

    to fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate

22. Barnoun

    to restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up

23. Barnoun

    to except; to exclude by exception

24. Barnoun

    to cross with one or more stripes or lines

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1. Bar

   The bar is a non-SI unit of pressure, defined by the IUPAC as exactly equal to 100,000 Pa. It is about equal to the atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level, and since 1982 the IUPAC has recommended that the standard for atmospheric pressure should be harmonized to 100,000 Pa = 1 bar ≈ 750.0616827 Torr. The same definition is used in the compressor and the pneumatic tool industries. The bar and the millibar were introduced by the British meteorologist William Napier Shaw in 1909, while he was the director of the Meteorological Office in London. Units derived from the bar are the megabar, kilobar, decibar, centibar, and millibar. They are not SI or cgs units, but they are accepted for use with the SI. The bar is legally recognized in countries of the European Union. The bar unit is sometimes deprecated. While the BIPM includes it under the class "Non-SI units accepted for use with the SI", the NIST includes it in the list of units to avoid and recommends to use kilopascals and megapascals instead. Bar is a unit of gauge pressure, i.e., pressure in bars above ambient or atmospheric pressure; see absolute pressure and gauge pressure below.

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1. Bar

   bär, n. a rod of any solid substance: a bolt: a hindrance or obstruction—the barrier of a city or street, as the bars of York, Temple Bar, a toll-bar: a bank of sand or other matter at the mouth of a river: any terminus or limit (of life)—e.g. as in To cross the bar: the railing that encloses a space in a tavern, the counter across which drinks are served, a public-house: the wooden rail dividing off the judge's seat, at which prisoners are placed for arraignment or sentence—hence, To appear at the bar, To pass the bar = to be formally referred for trial from a lower court to a higher: any tribunal: the pleaders in a court as distinguished from the judges: a division in music.—v.t. to fasten or secure, as with a bar: to hinder or exclude:—pr.p. bar′ring; pa.p. barred.—ns. Bar′-ī′ron, iron in malleable bars; Bar′maid, a female waiter at the bar of a tavern or hotel.—prep. Bar′ring, excepting, saving.—ns. Bar′ring-out, the shutting of the school-room doors and windows by the pupils against the master, in order to enforce assent to their demands; Bar′wood, a kind of red dye-wood imported from Africa in bars. [O. Fr. barre—Low L. barra, perh. of Celt. origin.]

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1. bar

   1. [very common] The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz. “Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR....” 2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar.

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1. bar

   A submerged or emerged embankment of sand, gravel, or mud created on the sea floor in shallow water by waves and currents. A bar may be composed of mollusk shells.

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1. bar

   A small piece of cast-iron introduced across the middle of each link of the larger chain-cables, where, acting as a strengthener, it prevents collapse, and keeps the links endways to each other.

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1. bar

   A long piece of wood or iron. Bars have various denominations in the construction of artillery-carriages, as sweep- and cross-bars for tumbrils, fore, hind, and under cross-bars for powder-carts, shaft-bars for wagons, and dowel-bars, used in mortar-beds.

2. bar

   In heraldry, is one of those important figures or charges known as ordinaries. It is formed by two horizontal lines passing over the shield like the fess, but it differs from it in size,—the fess occupying a third, the bar only a fifth part of the shield. The fess is also confined to the centre, while the bar may be borne in several parts of the shield.

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1. bar

   The bar symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the bar symbol and its characteristic.

2. BAR

   What does BAR stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the BAR acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bar

   In old days, when a counter did not obtain, and drinking vessels had to be set down on the benches or barrel ends, a bar separated the frequenters of a tavern from the drawers or tapsters. Similarly, at the Courts of Law the Bar was a rail behind which a barrister or counsel had to plead his client’s cause.

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bar

   a short, straight band of equal width.

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1. BAR

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bar is ranked #24890 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bar surname appeared 999 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bar.
   
   74.5% or 745 total occurrences were White.
   8.2% or 82 total occurrences were Black.
   7.6% or 76 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   7.4% or 74 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.6% or 16 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Automatic Rifle
   • Barrier
   • Block
   • Counter
   • Expel
   • Forbid
   • Heating Element
   • Hindrance
   • Implement
   • Law
   • Marking
   • Meteorology
   • Musical Notation
   • Obstruction
   • Pressure Unit
   • Profession
   • Ridge
   • Room
   • Secure
   • Support

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bar' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1416

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bar' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1046

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bar' in Nouns Frequency: #446

Anagrams for bar »

1. ABR

2. ARB

3. bra

4. rab

How to pronounce bar?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say bar in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bar in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of bar in a Sentence

1. Dave Arnold:

   There’s still so much room in exploring new techniques in cocktails, classic cocktails made with standard mixers and the standard back bar are delicious. You don’t need to stray from that. But once you want to get into things you can’t make with classic techniques, that’s when you need to start pulling in newer techniques. This isn’t just for people interested in buying expensive equipment. It’s something that can work in any bar.

2. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

3. P. J. O'Rourke:

   Skiing consists of wearing 3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

4. Margaret Thatcher:

   Elizabeth Truss and Nadine Dorris walked into a bar, the IQ of the bar was greatly diminished by this.

5. Trong Young:

   One of the best ways to judge the FB trends in a city is to see what the hotels are doing, recently Anti:dote at Fairmont Hotel and Manhattan Bar at Regent Singapore hotel opened, while Four Seasons hired one of the greatest bartenders in history -- Javier de lad Muelas -- to consult on its beverage and cocktail list at One Ninety bar.

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