bar
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
Adverb
- 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.
Origin
From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer, 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.
Noun Entry 2
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The street was lined with all-night bars.
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
- The counter of such premises.
- Step up to the bar and order a drink.
Synonyms: wet bar
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- a coffee bar
- a juice bar
Origin
From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.
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Derived
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 and grill bar association barback barbell barbell bar pad bar bike bar billiards barboy bar-breasted honeyeater barcade BarCamp
Noun Entry 3
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
Origin
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.
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Derived
allobar baric centibar decibar kilobar megabar microbar millibar nanobar picobar
Preposition
- Except, other than, besides.
- He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
- "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." - 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter I, in The Redemption,...
- 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. - 2019...
Synonyms: 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
Derived
Verb
- To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
- '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...
- To prohibit.
- I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
- To lock or bolt with a bar.
- to bar the door
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- 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...