bar
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɑː/
- (General American) enPR: bär, IPA(key): /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /baː/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
- Homophones: baa, bah (in some pronunciations)
Etymology 1
From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.
Noun
bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- The window was protected by steel bars.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) 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.
- Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
- We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- bar of chocolate
- bar of soap
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- a bar of light
- a bar of colour
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- (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 (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- Hyponyms: pipe, strikethrough, macron
- (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).
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- Synonyms: barroom, ginshop, (British) pub, public house, tavern; see also Thesaurus:pub
- The street was lined with all-night bars.
- The counter of such premises.
- Synonym: wet bar
- Step up to the bar and order a drink.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- coffee bar; juice bar
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- a burger bar
- a local fish bar
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- a nail bar; a brow bar
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- Synonyms: ban, prohibition
- The club has lifted its bar on women members.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act V, page 83:
- Muſt I new bars to my own joy create?
- 2013, Terence Dillon, A Long Way Home, page 184:
- Mr Harding could look back on his initial judgement of Paul's talent with great satisfaction while Paul could reflect that to be Irish was not necessarily a bar to progress.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (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.
- He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
- (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- He was called to the bar. ― He became a barrister.
- (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.
- I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (music) One of those musical sections.
- Synonym: measure
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- (soccer, 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.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- 1868, “Route 20: London to Tiflis […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 320:
- Travellers change at Batoum into a steamer which performs the service between that port and Poti, and which has a less draught of water to enable it to cross the bar of the river Rion.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- Temple Bar, London
- (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.
- 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “The First Shag in Ages”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 151:
- Tell Sick Boy tae gie us a bell if ye see um. The bastard owes us twenty fuckin bar.
- (slang, hip-hop) A complimentary reference to a rapper's lyrics, especially when good.
- That rapper there, yeah, he got bars.
Derived terms
terms derived from the noun "bar"
- address bar
- aero bar, aerobar
- 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 (Ramsayornis fasciatus)
- barcade
- BarCamp
- bar car
- bar chair
- bar chart
- bar code, barcoder
- Bar Council
- bar crawl
- bar-crested antshrike (Thamnophilus multistriatus)
- bar ditch
- bar down
- bar exam, bar examination
- barfeed
- barfeeder
- barfight
- bar fine
- barfish (Morone spp.; Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
- bar fly, barfly
- barful
- bargirl
- bargoer, bar-goer
- bar graph
- bar-headed goose (Anser indicus)
- Bar Hill
- bar hop, barhop
- barhopper
- bar iron
- barkeep
- bar-keeper, barkeeper
- barkeeping
- barlady
- bar-lamb
- barless
- barlike
- bar line, barline
- barling
- barload
- bar lunch
- bar magnet
- barmaid, barmaiden
- barman
- barmate
- bar meal
- bar mining
- bar money
- barnight
- bar of chocolate
- bar off
- bar of soap
- bar out
- bar pad
- bar parlour
- barperson
- bar phone
- barplot
- barpost
- bar-resto
- bar review
- barring
- barrister
- bar room
- bar shoe
- bar shot
- bar-shouldered dove (Geopelia humeralis)
- barside
- bar-sinister, bar sinister
- bar soap
- bar spin, barspin
- bar spoon
- barstaff
- bar star
- barstaurant
- bar steward
- barstock, bar stock
- bar stool
- bar syrup
- bar table
- bartack
- bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica)
- bar-tend
- bartender
- bartop
- bar up
- barwalking
- barware
- barway
- bar whore
- barwing (Actinodura spp.)
- bar-winged rail (†Nesoclopeus poecilopterus)
- barwise
- barwoman
- barwood, bar wood
- bass bar, bass-bar
- bastard bar
- beach bar
- bean-to-bar
- bebar
- beer bar
- behind bars
- behind the bar
- Bell Bar
- belly up to the bar
- biker bar
- bikini bar
- Boston Bar
- breaker bar
- breakfast bar
- broken bar
- brown bar
- brushbar
- bull bar
- bumper bar
- burger bar
- burglar bar
- burning bar
- busbar, bus bar
- bush bar
- butter bar
- buttery bar
- button bar
- called within the bar
- call to the bar
- candy bar
- Carter Bar
- cash bar
- cereal bar
- Charlie bar
- chinning bar
- chin-up bar
- choco bar
- chocolate bar
- cocktail bar
- coffee bar
- color bar, colour bar
- Congo bar
- copperbar
- crash bar
- credit bar
- crowbar
- crown bar
- crush bar
- curl bar
- dairy bar
- debar
- dessert bar
- detector bar
- disbar, disbarment
- dive bar
- doré bar
- dotted bar line
- double bar
- draft-bar
- dragbar
- draught-bar
- drawbar
- drop bar
- dry bar
- dun-bar (Cosmia calami)
- eight-bar blues
- embar
- energy bar
- error bar
- eyebar
- fern bar
- finger bar
- firebar, fire bar
- five bar
- five-bar swordtail (Graphium antiphates)
- flashbar
- flybar
- football bar
- footbar
- forbar
- four-ale bar
- full bar
- Gantt bar
- gas bar
- gay bar
- glazing bar
- granola bar
- ground bar
- Hague Bar
- Halligan bar
- handlebar
- h-bar, h bar
- healthbar, health bar
- high bar
- hitching-bar
- honesty bar, honor bar
- horizontal bar
- hosted bar
- hostess bar
- hotbar, hot bar
- I-bar
- ice cream bar
- imbar
- inner bar
- isallobar
- jail bars
- J-bar
- Jesus bar
- Johnson bar
- joint bar
- judder bar
- juice bar
- kangaroo bar
- karaoke bar
- Katy bar the door, kitty bar the door
- kneebar
- know from a bar of soap
- KTV bar
- Leeming Bar
- Legbar
- lemon bar
- lesbian bar
- lifebar
- lift the bar
- lightbar
- link bar
- Logan bar
- lounge bar
- lower the bar
- luncheon bar
- lup sup bar
- Marble Bar
- menu bar
- milk bar
- mill bar
- minibar
- monkey bars
- mosquito bar
- mouth bar
- multibar
- multi-grip bar
- nail bar
- Nanaimo bar
- navigation bar
- Nazi bar
- N-bar
- needle bar
- nerf bar
- neutral grip bar
- no host bar
- nonbar
- nosebar
- nut-bar, nutbar, nut bar
- open bar
- outer bar
- overbar
- oxygen bar
- oyster bar
- parallel bars
- pass the bar
- P-bar
- peeler bar
- piano bar
- pinch bar, pinchbar
- point bar
- Potters Bar
- power bar
- prison bars, prisoners' bars
- progress bar
- prop up the bar
- pry bar, prybar
- public bar
- puddle bar, puddled bar
- push-up bar
- radius bar
- raise the bar
- randle-bar
- raw bar
- rebar
- restobar
- rollbar, roll bar
- roo bar
- Russian bar
- saddle bar
- salad bar
- saloon bar
- sandbar, sand bar
- sandwich bar
- scale bar
- scrimping bar
- scroll bar
- servibar
- set the bar
- sidebar
- singles bar
- sissy bar
- sky bar
- slant bar
- slice bar
- slidebar
- snackbar, snack bar, snack-bar
- soap bar
- solebar
- soundbar
- space bar
- splinter bar
- split bar
- sports bar
- spreader bar
- spring bar
- starting bar
- status bar
- stir bar
- strip bar, striptease bar
- summer bar
- sway bar
- swinglebar
- Swiss bar
- taskbar
- T-bar
- tend bar
- tiebar
- tiki bar
- title bar
- titty bar
- tollbar, toll bar, toll-bar
- tommy bar
- tonebar
- tool-bar, toolbar, tool bar
- topbar
- torsion bar
- towbar, tow bar
- trackbar
- tribar
- triple bar
- twelve-bar blues, twelve bar blues
- type bar, typebar
- unbar
- underbar
- upbar
- utility bar
- V-bar
- vertical bar
- view bar
- wall bars
- waterbar, water bar
- wet bar
- whammy bar
- window bar
- wine bar
- wing bar
- wire bar
- wrecking bar
- X-bar
- Z-bar
Descendants
- → Albanian: bar m
- → Arabic: بَار m (bār)
- → Armenian: բար (bar)
- → Bulgarian: бар (bar)
- → Burmese: ဘား (bha:)
- → Chichewa: bála
- → Cantonese: 吧 (baa1)
- → Czech: bar m
- → Danish: bar c
- → Dutch: bar m
- → Esperanto: baro
- → Estonian: baar
- → French: bar m
- → Romanian: bar
- → Galician: bar m
- → Georgian: ბარი (bari)
- → German: Bar f
- → Greek: μπαρ n (bar)
- → Gulf Arabic: بار (bār)
- → Hebrew: בָּר (bar), בָּאר (bár)
- → Hungarian: bár (also via German)
- → Icelandic: bar m
- → Irish: beár m
- → Italian: bar m
- → Japanese: バー (bā)
- → Khmer: បារ (baa)
- → Korean: 바 (ba)
- → Lithuanian: bãras m
- → Macedonian: бар m (bar)
- → Malagasy: ba
- → Mandarin: 吧 (bā)
- → Norwegian:
- → Persian: بار (bâr)
- → Polish: bar m
- → Portuguese: bar m
- → Russian: бар m (bar)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ба̑р m, bȃr m
- → Slovene: bȃr m
- → Spanish: bar m
- → Swahili: baa
- → Swedish: bar c (see there for further descendants)
- → Thai: บาร์ (baa)
- → Turkish: bar
- → Xhosa: íbhári
- → Zulu: ibha
Translations
See also
References
Etymology 2
From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer,[1] from Medieval Latin barrare (“to bar”), from the noun. Cognate to Occitan barrar, Spanish barrar, Portuguese barrar.
Preposition properly imperative of the verb. Compare barring.
Verb
bar (third-person singular simple present bars, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)
- (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
- 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza V, page 47:
- 'One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night, / But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light; / Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, / Then look for me by moonlight, / Watch for me by moonlight, / I'll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way.'
- (transitive) To prohibit.
- I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
- (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
- to bar the door
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208, column 1:
- I lived in a hut in the yard. To be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Esperanto: bari
Translations
Preposition
bar
- Except, other than, besides.
- Synonyms: apart from, barring, except for, excepting, excluding, other than, save; see also Thesaurus:except
- He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
- 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter I, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, page 5:
- "I might be a fool," the younger man admitted quietly, "even an idiot, but there's not a person living, bar you, who possess the courage to call me a weakling, Sir."
- 2019 October, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line upgrade presses on”, in Modern Railways, page 62:
- These see the overhead wires installed on all bar the slow lines between Bedford and Wellingborough by next May, with the remaining section completed by August, when the full programme is due to be completed.
- (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
- Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.
Derived terms
Translations
with the exception of — see except
References
- “barren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 31 October 2019.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “bar”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 446.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.
Noun
bar (plural bars)
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
Further reading
Bar (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Bar in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.
