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▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
▸ noun: A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
▸ noun: A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (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).
▸ noun: A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
▸ noun: The counter of such premises.
▸ noun: A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
▸ noun: (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
▸ noun: An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
▸ noun: An establishment offering cosmetic services.
▸ noun: An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
▸ noun: Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
▸ noun: (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
▸ noun: (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
▸ noun: (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
▸ noun: (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
▸ noun: (music) One of those musical sections.
▸ noun: (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
▸ noun: (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
▸ noun: (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
▸ noun: (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
▸ noun: An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
▸ noun: (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
▸ noun: 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).
▸ noun: (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
▸ noun: A city gate, in some British place names.
▸ noun: (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
▸ noun: (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
▸ noun: (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
▸ noun: (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
▸ noun: (slang, hip-hop) A complimentary reference to a rapper's lyrics, especially when good.
▸ verb: (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
▸ verb: (transitive) To prohibit.
▸ verb: (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
▸ verb: To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
▸ noun: A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
▸ noun: A town and municipality of Montenegro
▸ noun: A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
▸ noun: A city in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine
▸ noun: (legal senses) Alternative spelling of bar. [A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.]
▸ noun: (military) Initialism of Browning Automatic Rifle.
▸ adjective: (veterinary medicine, slang) Acronym of bright, alert, responsive. [Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.]
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