Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BAR
BAR
Definitions of BAR
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- 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 counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- Except, other than, besides.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- The counter of such premises.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- (programming, derived from) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following .
- (slang, hip-hop) A complimentary reference to a rapper's lyrics, especially when good.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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).
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- (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.
- (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.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (music) One of those musical sections.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- (metaphorical) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- (football, most codes) The crossbar.
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- (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).
- (heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (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.
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- (transitive) To prohibit.
- (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
- (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
- (legal senses) Alternative spelling of bar..
- A town and municipality in Montenegro
- A city in Zhytomyr, Ukraine
- (military) Initialism of Browning Automatic Rifle.
- A female given name.
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
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