English Explanatory Dictionary

bar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
  2. A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
  3. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
  4. A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
  5. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
  6. Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
  7. 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.
  8. 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).
  9. A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
  10. The counter of such premises.
  11. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
  12. Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
verb
  1. To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
  2. To prohibit.
  3. To lock or bolt with a bar.
  4. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
prep
  1. Except, other than, besides.
adv
  1. Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
noun
  1. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
name
  1. Alternative spelling of bar.
name
  1. A town and municipality of Montenegro.
name
  1. A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Barry.
name
  1. A town in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.
name
  1. A male or female given name from Hebrew.
name
  1. Acronym of Bureau of Automotive Repair
noun
  1. Initialism of Browning automatic rifle.
adj
  1. Acronym of bright, alert, responsive.

Pronunciation

/bɑː/ en-uk-baa.ogg /bɑɹ/ [bɑɹ] [bɑ˞] en-us-bar.ogg /bäː/

Word forms

bar bars barring barred the Bar more BAR most BAR

Etymology

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.

Synonyms

barroom ginshop pub public house tavern alehouse boozer boozing ken bousing ken drinker drinkery gargle-factory gin joint groggery local nineteenth hole pot-house rummery saloon watering hole wet bar ban prohibition measure bank block hinder obstruct interdict prohibit apart from barring except for excepting excluding other than save apart aside from bar besides but but for except forby modulo not counting outtake save for saving with the exception of ㍴

Related words

isobar

Derived words

address bar aero bar aerobar Aiskew and Leeming Bar Ancobar angle bar anti-roll bar anti-sway bar appbar armbar at bar at the bar baby bar bar association barback barbell barbell bar pad bar bike bar billiards barboy bar-breasted honeyeater barcade BarCamp bar car bar chair bar chart bar clam bar code barcoder bar cookie Bar Council bar crawl bar-crested antshrike bar diagram bar ditch Bar End bar exam bar examination barfeed barfeeder barfight bar fine barfish bar fly barfly barful bargirl bargoer bar-goer bar graph bar-headed goose Bar Hill bar hop barhop barhopper bar iron barkeep bar-keeper barkeeper barkeeping

Translations

Marathi: बार
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