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{{see|Bar|bär|Bär}}

English

Pronunciation


Etymology 1

From {{term|barre||lang=enm}}, from {{term|barre||lang=fro}}

Noun

  1. A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
  2. a solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section, whose smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater (US), a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
  3. : Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloi, to physically disencourage the use of money
  4. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
  5. : bar of chocolate
  6. : bar of soap
  7. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
  8. A business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
  9. The counter of such a premises
  10. A similar device or simply a closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room.
  11. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
  12. (computing, whimsical, derived from fubar) Used to stand for some unspecified entity, usually a second entity following foo.
  13. : Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar
  14. (legal: the Bar) Short for the Bar Exam, the legal licensing exam.
  15. : He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
  16. (British: the Bar) A collective term for barristers.
  17. (British: the Bar) (loosely) The profession of barristers.
  18. A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
  19. One of these musical sections.
  20. The crossbar
  21. The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
  22. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
  23. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
  24. 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).
  25. One of the ordinary|ordinaries in heraldry.
  26. : See wikipedia article on the topic:
  27. A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault


Synonyms


Derived terms
Translations
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|stang|m}}, {{t+|nl|staaf|f}}, {{t+|nl|baar|f}}, {{t+|nl|blok|n}}
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|stango|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|barre|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Block|m}}, {{t-|de|Barren|m}}, {{t+|de|Stange|f}}
  • Greek: ράβδος (ravdos) , πλάκα (plaka) , πλακίδιο (plakidio) , κομμάτι (komati)
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|staaf|f}}, {{t+|nl|baar|f}}, {{t+|nl|stang|m}}
  • Finnish: ,
  • German: {{t-|de|Barren|m}}
  • Greek: ράβδος (ravdos)
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|blok|n}}
  • Finnish: , ,
  • German: {{t+|de|Balken|m}}, {{t+|de|Strich|m}}, {{t+|de|Streifen|m}}
  • Interlingua: bar
  • Italian: {{t+|it|bar|m}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|bar|m}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|bar|m}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|bar|c}}, {{t+|sv|pub|c}}, {{t-|sv|krog|c}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|δικηγορία|f|tr=dikigoria|sc=Grek}}, {{t+|el|ποινικολογία|f|tr=pinikologia|sc=Grek}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|maatstreep|f}}
  • Finnish: tahtiviiva
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|maat|m}}
  • Finnish: tahti
  • French: {{t+|fr|mesure|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Takt|m}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|takt|c}}
  • Dutch:
  • Finnish:
  • Italian: {{t+|it|barra|f}}
  • Italian: {{t-|it|asticella|f}}

Verb

{{en-verb|bar|r|ed}}

  1. To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
  2. To prohibit.
  3. : I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred
  4. To lock or bolt with a bar.
  5. : bar the door


Synonyms


Derived terms


Translations

Preposition

  1. except|Except, with the exception of.
  2. : He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.


Synonyms


Derived terms


Translations

See except

References

Etymology 2

From {{term|sc=Grek|βάρος|tr=baros||weight}}, coined c. 1900.

Noun

  1. A unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals.


Derived terms


Related terms


Translations
  • Dutch:
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|bar|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Bar|n}}

Category:English prepositions

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Albanian

Noun

bar

  1. grass


Category:Albanian nouns

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Aramaic

Adjective

bar (בר)

  1. son of (compare Hebrew בן "ben")
  2. : Bartholomew is the son of Tolmai


Category:Metasyntactic words

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Croatian

Noun

  1. public house


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Dutch

Etymology 1

From English bar#English|bar

Noun

bar (plural bars, diminutive barretje)

  1. bar, counter, drink cabinet
  2. bar, pub


Derived terms


Etymology 2

cognate with barren

Adjective

bar (no comparative; superlative barst, barste)

  1. harsh, tough (used mainly with koude (cold), or omstandigheden (conditions))
  2. barren, inhospitable, bare
  3. crude, grim, unfriendly


Alternative forms


Adverb

bar

  1. extremely (only in a negative sense)


Etymology 3

From {{term|sc=Grek|βάρος|tr=baros||weight}}, coined c. 1900.

Noun

  1. A unit of pressure, equal to 100,000 pascals.


Derived terms


Related terms


References


Category:Dutch adverbs Category:Dutch nouns

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Faroese

Verb

{{fo-conj-54|b|e|r|o|a|ó}} bar

  1. he, it bore, carried; 1st and 3rd person singular past tense form of bera#Faroese|bera (to bear, to carry)


Derived terms


Category:Faroese verb forms

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French

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Fr-bar.ogg


Noun

  1. bar#English | bar (establishment)
  2. bar#English | bar (counter)
  3. bass#English | bass (fish)


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German

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at De-bar.OGG


Adverb

bar

  1. in cash
  2. pure


Category:2000 German basic words Category:German adverbs

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Icelandic

Noun

bar (bars|bar-s, barir|bar-ir)

  1. bar


Category:Icelandic nouns

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Italian

Noun

bar (plural: bar)

  1. café, bar


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Old English

Etymology

Western Germanic *baira

Noun

bār

  1. boar


Category:Old English nouns

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Old High German

Etymology

Common Germanic *bazaz, whence also Old English bær, Old Norse berr

Adjective

bar

  1. bare


Category:Old High German adjectives

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Spanish

Noun

  1. bar, pub


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Swedish

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Sv-bar.ogg


Adjective

bar

  1. bare, uncovered, naked


Verb

bar


Noun

bar

  1. bar; place where mainly alcoholic drinks are served.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), n. [OE. barre, F. barre, fr. LL. barra, W.
bar the branch of a tree, bar, baren branch, Gael. & Ir.
barra bar. [root]91.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]

Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood. --Ex. xxvi.
26.
[1913 Webster]

2. 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.
[1913 Webster]

3. Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an
obstruction; a barrier.
[1913 Webster]

Must I new bars to my own joy create? --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

4. A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth
of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
[1913 Webster]

5. 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.
[1913 Webster]

6. (Law)
(a) 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.
(b) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for
arraignment, trial, or sentence.
(c) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or
district; the legal profession.
(d) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to
plaintiff's action.
[1913 Webster]

7. Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of
God.
[1913 Webster]

8. 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.
[1913 Webster]

9. (Her.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying
only one fifth part of the field.
[1913 Webster]

10. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a
bar of color.
[1913 Webster]

11. (Mus.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the
staff into spaces which represent measures, and are
themselves called measures.
[1913 Webster]

Note: A double bar marks the end of a strain or main division
of a movement, or of a whole piece of music; in
psalmody, it marks the end of a line of poetry. The
term bar is very often loosely used for measure, i.e.,
for such length of music, or of silence, as is included
between one bar and the next; as, a passage of eight
bars; two bars' rest.
[1913 Webster]

12. (Far.) pl.
(a) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper
jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
(b) 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.
[1913 Webster]

13. (Mining)
(a) A drilling or tamping rod.
(b) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
[1913 Webster]

14. (Arch.)
(a) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(b) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports
the glass of a window; a sash bar.
[1913 Webster]

Bar shoe (Far.), a kind of horseshoe having a bar across
the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog
from injury.

Bar shot, a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a
ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly used for
destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat.

Bar sinister (Her.), a term popularly but erroneously used
for baton, a mark of illegitimacy. See Baton.

Bar tracery (Arch.), ornamental stonework resembling bars
of iron twisted into the forms required.

Blank bar (Law). See Blank.

Case at bar (Law), a case presently before the court; a
case under argument.

In bar of, as a sufficient reason against; to prevent.

Matter in bar, or Defence in bar, any matter which is a
final defense in an action.

Plea in bar, a plea which goes to bar or defeat the
plaintiff's action absolutely and entirely.

Trial at bar (Eng. Law), a trial before all the judges of
one the superior courts of Westminster, or before a quorum
representing the full court.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barred (b[aum]rd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Barring.] [ F. barrer. See Bar, n.]
1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
[1913 Webster]

2. 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.
[1913 Webster]

He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened
to bar it in its dungeon. --Hawthorne.
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3. To except; to exclude by exception.
[1913 Webster]

Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me
By what we do to-night. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
[1913 Webster]

For the sake of distinguishing the feet more
clearly, I have barred them singly. --Burney.
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WordNet bar
n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served
over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at
the bar" [syn: barroom, saloon, ginmill, taproom]
2: a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a
hot dog and a coke at the bar"
3: 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: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;
"the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song"
[syn: measure]
5: an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal;
"it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar"
6: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving";
"money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of
influenza" [syn: prevention]
7: (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: 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: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a
particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in
New Jersey" [syn: legal profession, legal community]
10: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of
chocolate" [syn: cake]
11: a portable .30 caliber magazine-fed automatic rifle operated
by gas pressure; used by United States troops in World
War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn: {Browning
automatic rifle}]
12: a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as
they perform exercises
13: a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire
with three bars"
14: (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"
v 1: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from
membership in the club" [syn: debar, exclude]
2: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade
the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block,
blockade, stop, block off, block up]
3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his
own country" [syn: banish, relegate]
4: secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant:
unbar]
[also: barring, barred]
Moby Dictionary
Hershey bar , Maypole , abscind , accent , accent mark , achievement ,
ait , alehouse , alerion , ambo , amputate , animal charge , annihilate ,
annulet , anticipate , arch dam , archipelago , argent ,
armorial bearings , armory , arms , aside from , atoll , avert ,
aviation badge , azure , backstop , badge , bamboo curtain , ban , band ,
bandeau , bang , banish , bank , bar line , bar out , bar sinister ,
barrage , barrel house , barricade , barrier , barring , barroom , bate ,
baton , batten , batten down , beam , bear-trap dam , bearings ,
beaver dam , beer garden , beer parlor , belt , bench , bend ,
bend sinister , beside , besides , bespangle , bespeckle , bespot ,
billet , bind , bistro , blank wall , blazon , blazonry , blind alley ,
blind gut , blind tiger , block , block up , blockade , blockage ,
blotch , board , bob , bolt , boom , boozer , bordure , bottleneck ,
boycott , brace , brake , breakwater , breastwork , brick wall ,
broad arrow , bucket shop , buffer , buffet , bulkhead , bulkhead in ,
bullion , bulwark , bung , but , button , button up , cabaret ,
cadency mark , cafe , cancel , cant hook , cantina , canton , caulk , cay ,
cecum , chaplet , character , charge , check , checker , checkrein ,
chevron , chicken , chief , chink , chock , choke , choke off , choke up ,
choking , choking off , circumscribe , circumscription , clap ,
claw bar , clip , clog , clog up , close , close off , close out ,
close tight , close up , coat of arms , cockatrice , cocktail lounge ,
cofferdam , coin gold , coin silver , confine , congest , congestion ,
constipate , constipation , constrict , contain , continental island ,
contract , control , copper , coral head , coral island , coral reef ,
cork , coronet , costiveness , counsel , count out , counter , cover ,
crack , crank , craze , crescent , crest , crisscross , crop , cross ,
cross moline , cross-hatching , crossbar , crosscut , crow , crowbar ,
crowd , crown , cruciate , cul-de-sac , cull , curb , custos , cut ,
cut across , cut away , cut off , cut out , dam , dam up , dapple , dash ,
dead end , debar , debarment , debarring , decussate , defense , deflect ,
degree , delimit , delimitate , delineation , demarcation , deny ,
deport , desk , deter , device , diagonal , difference , differencing ,
difficulty , dike , direct , disallow , discourage , disenable ,
dishearten , disqualify , ditch , dive , dock , dog , dot , dotted line ,
dramshop , drinkery , drinking saloon , eagle , earthwork , eliminate ,
embankment , embargo , embolism , embolus , encumbrance , enjoin ,
enucleate , epaulet , eradicate , ermine , ermines , erminites ,
erminois , escritoire , escutcheon , estop , ex , except , except for ,
excepting , exception , excise , exclude , exclude from , excluding ,
exclusion , exclusive of , exile , expression mark , extinguish ,
extirpate , falcon , fasten , fence , fend , fend off , fermata , fess ,
fess point , field , file , fill , fill up , flagstaff , flake , flanch ,
flat , fleck , fleur-de-lis , fold , fold up , forbid , ford , foreclose ,
forestall , foul , freckle , freeze out , fret , fur , fusil , garland ,
gate , gin mill , gold , gold nugget , gorge , gravity dam , griffin ,
groggery , grogshop , groin , gules , gyron , hachure , hairline , halt ,
hamper , handspike , hardship , harlequin , hash mark , hatching ,
hatchment , hedge , helmet , help , hem , heraldic device , hinder ,
hindrance , hold , holm , honky-tonk , honor point , hurdle ,
hydraulic-fill dam , ignore , impalement , impaling , impasse , impede ,
impediment , inadmissibility , inescutcheon , infarct , infarction ,
ingot , inhibit , injunction , insignia of branch , insularity ,
intercross , interdict , intersect , iris , iron crow , iron curtain ,
island , island group , islandology , isle , jam , jetty , jimmy ,
keep from , keep off , keep out , key , key signature , knock off ,
label , latch , lead , leaping weir , leave out , leaving out , lectern ,
ledger line , legal profession , let alone , levee , lever , lie across ,
ligature , limb , line , lineation , lion , list , local , lock , lock out ,
lock up , lockout , logjam , lop , lounge , lozenge , maculate ,
make impossible , mantling , marble , marbleize , mark , marlinespike ,
marshaling , martlet , mascle , measure , metal , metronomic mark ,
milldam , moat , mole , motley , mottle , motto , mound , mullet ,
mutilate , narrowing , nickel , nightclub , nip , nombril point ,
nonadmission , notation , nugget , oak leaf , obstacle , obstipate ,
obstipation , obstruct , obstruction , obviate , occlude ,
oceanic island , octofoil , omission , omit , omitting , or , ordinary ,
organization insignia , orle
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