Complete Definition of "bar"

see|Bar|bär|Bär
English

Pronunciation
(UK): IPA|/b��/, SAMPA|/bA:/
(US): AHD|/bär/, IPA|/b�r/, SAMPA|/bAr/
audio|en-us-bar.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
wikipedia
en-noun

  1. A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
  2. metallurgy 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.

#: Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloi, to physically disencourage the use of money

  1. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

#: bar of chocolate
#: bar of soap

  1. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
  2. A business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
  3. The counter of such a premises
  4. A similar device or simply a closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room.
  5. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
  6. (computing, whimsical, derived from fubar) Used to stand for some unspecified entity, usually a second entity following foo.

#: Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar

  1. (legal: the Bar) Short for the Bar Exam, the legal licensing exam.

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

  1. (British: the Bar) A collective term for barristers.
  2. (British: the Bar) (loosely) The profession of barristers.
  3. music A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
  4. music One of these musical sections.
  5. soccer The crossbar
  6. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
  7. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
  8. nautical 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).
  9. heraldry One of the ordinary|ordinaries in heraldry.

#: See wikipedia article on the topic: w|Ordinary (heraldry)

Synonyms
(business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages): pub (British), public house, tavern
(official order prohibiting some activity): ban, prohibition
(section of a staff, in music): measure

Derived terms
rel-top4|derived terms
admitted to the bar
anti-roll bar
at the bar
bar billiards
bar chart
bar code
Bar Council
barfly
barful
bar graph
bar iron
barkeep
barkeeper
barline
bar lunch
bar magnet
barmaid
barman
bar meal
bar of chocolate
bar of soap
rel-mid4
bar parlour
barperson
bar room
barring
bar sinister
bar steward
bartender
bar wood
bastard bar
behind bars
bus bar
buttery bar
called to the bar
called within the bar
chocolate bar
coffee bar
colour bar
crowbar
crush bar
debar
disbar, disbarment
rel-mid4
double bar
dragbar
drawbar
embar
fire bar
five bar
handlebar
horizontal bar
inner bar
juice bar
karaoke bar
lounge bar
luncheon bar
milk bar
minibar
outer bar
parallel bars
public bar
re-bar
rollbar
rel-mid4
roo bar
saddle bar
saloon bar
sandbar
sidebar
singles bar
snack bar
space bar
splinter bar
T-bar
toll bar
tommy bar
toolbar
torsion bar
towbar
unbar
wet bar
window bar
wine bar
wire bar
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Translations
trans-top|solid object with uniform cross-section
Dutch: stang m, staaf f, baar f, blok n
Esperanto: stango
Finnish: palkki
French: barre f
German: Block m, Barren m, Stange f
Greek: �άβδο� (ravdos) f, �λάκα (plaka) n, �λακίδιο (plakidio) n, κομμά�ι (komati) n
trans-mid
Interlingua: barra
Portuguese: barra f
Spanish: barra f
Swedish: ribba
Telugu: �డ�డ� (kaDDee)
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trans-top|metallurgy: solid object of round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular section
Dutch: staaf f, baar f, stang m
Finnish: palkki, tanko
German: Barren m
Greek: �άβδο� (ravdos) f
trans-mid
Interlingua: barra
Portuguese: barra f
Spanish: barra f
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trans-top|cuboid piece of any commodity
Dutch: blok n, stuk n, reep f (chocolate)
Finnish: patukka (chocolate, candy), pala (soap etc.), harkko (metal, concrete)
trans-mid
German: Block m, Stück n (of soap), Tafel f (of chocolate)
Greek: �άβδο� (ravdos) f, �λάκα (plaka) n, �λακίδιο (plakidio) n
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trans-top|long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder
Dutch: blok n
Finnish: pylväs, palkki, viiva
trans-mid
German: Balken m, Strich m, Streifen m
trans-bottom

trans-top|business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages
Dutch: bar m, café n, taveerne m
Estonian: baar
Finnish: baari, kapakka (coll.)
French: bar m
German: Bar f, Kneipe f, Austrian: Beisl n
Greek: μ�α� (bar) n, κα�ηλει� (kapilio) n, �ο�ο��λείο (potopolio) n
Interlingua: bar
trans-mid
Italian: bar m
Portuguese: bar m
Spanish: bar m
Swedish: #Swedish|bar c, pub#Swedish|pub c, krog#Swedish|krog c
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trans-top|counter of such a premises
Dutch: bar m, toog m, tapkast f
Esperanto: bufedo
Finnish: baaritiski
trans-mid
French: comptoir m, zinc#French|zinc m (informal)
German: Bar f, Theke f, Tresen m
Swedish: #Swedish|bar c
trans-bottom

trans-top|closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room
Dutch: bar m
Estonian: baarikapp
Finnish: baarikaappi
trans-mid
German: Bar f
Greek: μ�α� (bar) n, μ�α�άκι (baraki) n
Swedish: #Swedish|bar c
trans-bottom

trans-top|official order prohibiting some activity
Dutch: verbod n
Esperanto: malpermeso, prohibicio
Finnish: kielto, este#Finnish|este
trans-mid
German: Verbot n
Interlingua: prohibition#Interlingua|prohibition
Portuguese: proibição f
Swedish: förbud n
trans-bottom

trans-top|computing: a second entity following foo
trans-mid
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trans-top|collective term for barristers
Greek: δικηγ��οι (dikigori) m|p
trans-mid
trans-bottom

trans-top|profession of barristers
Dutch: orde van advocaten f
trans-mid
Greek: δικηγο�ία (dikigoria) f, �οινικολογία (pinikologia) f
trans-bottom

trans-top|music: vertical line across a staff
Dutch: maat
Finnish: tahtiviiva
trans-mid
German: Taktstrich m
Swedish: taktstreck n
trans-bottom

trans-top|music: section of a staff
Finnish: tahti
German: Takt m
trans-mid
Swedish: takt c
trans-bottom

trans-top|nautical: sand formation
Finnish: särkkä
trans-mid
trans-bottom

checktrans-top
ttbc|Basque: taberna, ardandegi (5)
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Noun
wikipedia|Bar (unit)
en-noun

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

Derived terms
kilobar
megabar
millibar

Related terms
isobar

Translations
!--DefI-->
trans-top|unit of pressure
Dutch: bar
Finnish: baari
French: bar m
German: Bar n
trans-mid
trans-bottom

Verb
en-verb|bars|barring|barred|barred

  1. transitive To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
  2. transitive To prohibit.

#: I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred

  1. transitive To lock or bolt with a bar.

#: bar the door

Synonyms
(obstruct): block, hinder, obstruct
(prohibit): ban, interdict, prohibit
(lock or bolt with a bar):

Derived terms
outbar
unbar

Translations
trans-top|to obstruct the passage of
Dutch: blokkeren, versperren
Esperanto: bloki
Finnish: estää, tukkia, sulkea
French: bloquer
German: blockieren, versperren
Interlingua: barrar
trans-mid
Portuguese: barrar
trans-bottom

trans-top|to prohibit
Dutch: verbieden
Esperanto: malpermesi
Finnish: estää, kieltää
French: interdire
trans-mid
German: verbieten
Interlingua: prohibir
Italian: vietare
Portuguese: proibir
trans-bottom

trans-top|to lock or bolt with a bar
Dutch: blokkeren, barreren, versperren
Esperanto: bari
Finnish: salvata, teljetä
trans-mid
French: barrer
German: versperren
trans-bottom

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ttbc|Spanish: barrar
trans-bottom

Preposition
bar

  1. except|Except, with the exception of.

#: He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.

Synonyms
apart from, barring, except, except for, excluding, other than, save

Derived terms
bar none
all over bar the shouting

Translations
See except

References
R:Heraldry 1862

Category:English prepositions


Albanian

Noun
bar m

  1. grass

Category:Albanian nouns


Aramaic

Adjective
bar (�ר)

  1. son of (compare Hebrew �� "ben")

#: <!--give the Aramaic here!-->Bartholomew is the son of Tolmai

Category:Metasyntactic words


Croatian

Noun
hr-noun|m

  1. public house

Dutch

Etymology 1
From English bar#English|bar

Noun
bar m (plural bars, diminutive barretje)

  1. bar, drink cabinet
  2. bar, pub

Derived terms
bardame, barjuffrouw, barmeid, barmeisje f
barkelner, barman m
barkruk f or m

Etymology 2
etystub

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
barre

Adverb
bar

  1. extremely (only in a negative sense)

References
R:Koenen

Category:Dutch adverbs
Category:Dutch nouns


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
hetta bar ikki til - this wasn't possible

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Category:Faroese verb forms


French

Pronunciation
IPA | /ba��/

Noun
fr-noun|m

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

German

Adverb
bar

  1. in cash
  2. pure

Category:German adverbs
Category:2000 German basic words


Icelandic

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

  1. bar

Category:Icelandic nouns


Italian

Noun
bar m (plural: bar)

  1. café, bar

Old English

Etymology
Western Germanic *baira

Noun
b�r m

  1. boar

Category:Old English nouns


Old High German

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

Adjective
bar

  1. bare

Category:Old High German adjectives


Swedish

Pronunciation
audio|Sv-bar.ogg|audio

Adjective
sv-adj-reg
bar

  1. bare, uncovered, naked

Verb
bar

  1. sv-verb-form-past|bära

Noun
sv-noun-reg-r-c|bar|bare
bar c

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

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