Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BAR

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Definitions of BAR

1. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
2. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
3. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
4. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
5. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
6. An establishment offering cosmetic services.
7. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
8. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
9. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
10. A city gate, in some British place names.
11. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
12. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
13. Except, other than, besides.
14. A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
15. A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
16. The counter of such premises.
17. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
18. (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
19. (programming, derived from) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following .
20. (slang, hip-hop) A complimentary reference to a rapper's lyrics, especially when good.
21. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
22. (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly including oblique marks such as the slash.
23. (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 mantissa.
24. (physics) 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).
25. (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
26. (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
27. (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
28. (law, metonym, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
29. (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
30. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
31. (music) One of those musical sections.
32. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
33. (metaphorical) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
34. (football, most codes) The crossbar.
35. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
36. (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 obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
37. (heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
38. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
39. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
40. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
41. (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.
42. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
43. (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
44. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
45. (transitive) To prohibit.
46. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
47. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
48. (legal senses) Alternative spelling of bar..
49. A town and municipality in Montenegro
50. A city in Zhytomyr, Ukraine
51. (military) Initialism of Browning Automatic Rifle.
52. A female given name.

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Examples of Using BAR in a Sentence

• The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar.
• His rabbinical education was acquired mainly at Tiberias in the academy presided over by Johanan bar Nappaha, with whom his relationship was almost that of a son.
• While most output is human-readable, bar code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers.
• The organisation was founded on 16 March 1971 in Kruger's Bar, Dunquin, County Kerry, Ireland, by Michael Hardman, Graham Lees, Jim Makin, and Bill Mellor, who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer and the homogenisation of the British brewing industry.
• Disbarment, also known as striking off, is the removal of a lawyer from a bar association or the practice of law, thus revoking their law license or admission to practice law.
• He passed his first bar exam ("Staatsexamen") in Berlin in 1901, and the following year he received his doctorate with a dissertation on "The Theory of Adequate Causation".
• The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it.
• He is also a professor of law at the Law School, a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a research associate at the NBER.
• Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, Gandhi trained in the law at the Inner Temple in London and was called to the bar in June 1891, at the age of 22.
• For example, foo and bar are used in over 330 Internet Engineering Task Force Requests for Comments, the documents which define foundational internet technologies like HTTP (web), TCP/IP, and email protocols.
• From 1301, the upper Meuse roughly marked the western border of the Holy Roman Empire with the Kingdom of France, after Count Henry III of Bar had to receive the western part of the County of Bar (Barrois mouvant) as a French fief from the hands of King Philip IV.
• He describes his family's faith as a "kind of super-Reform Judaism" where there were "no kosher laws, no bar mitzvahs, no tallit, no kippot".
• With the exceptions of Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Quebec (whose private law is based on civil law), and British Columbia (whose notarial tradition stems from scrivener notary practice), a notary public in the rest of the United States and most of Canada has powers that are far more limited than those of civil-law or other common-law notaries, both of whom are qualified lawyers admitted to the bar: such notaries may be referred to as notaries-at-law or lawyer notaries.
• He passed the bar examination after studying law under Oliver Ellsworth and others, but was unable to find work as a lawyer.
• Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar.
• Commercial parasailing operations can be found worldwide, with customized powerboats that can accommodate numerous passenger observers and up to three airborne parasailors at a time wearing specially designed Body Harness w/ Tow Bar and/or seated in a Customized Gondola.
• In common law systems, the peremptory pleas (pleas in bar) are defensive pleas that set out special reasons for which a trial cannot proceed; they serve to bar the case entirely.
• The instrument differs from a conventional guitar in that it is played without using frets; conceptually, it is somewhat akin to playing a guitar with one finger (the bar).
• Though they were ultimately unsuccessful, Bar Kokhba and his rebels did manage to establish and maintain a Jewish state for about three years after beginning the rebellion.
• A silvery-colored metal, tin is soft enough to be cut with little force, and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort.

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