Word: bar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre. Pronunciation: /bɑː/, /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞], /bäː/ 1. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The window was protected by steel bars. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money. Example: We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow. 3. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: bar of chocolate Example: bar of soap 4. A broad shaft, band, or stripe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a bar of light Example: a bar of colour 5. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart. Labels: countable, uncountable 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. Labels: countable, uncountable 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. Labels: countable, uncountable 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). Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The street was lined with all-night bars. 10. The counter of such premises. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Step up to the bar and order a drink. 11. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage. Labels: broadly, countable, in-compounds, uncountable Example: a coffee bar Example: a juice bar 13. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a burger bar Example: a local fish bar 14. An establishment offering cosmetic services. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a nail bar Example: a brow bar 15. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The club has lifted its bar on women members. Example: The Chief Medical Officer of London Transport believes that public opinion against smoking will harden to the point of a total bar on the Underground, as in other countries. 16. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Muſt I new bars to my own joy create? Example: Sexual preference or orientation shall not be a bar to becoming a foster parent. 17. A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo. Labels: countable, derived, uncountable Example: Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux. 18. A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 19. The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 20. The bar exam, the legal licensing exam. Labels: Philippines, US, countable, uncountable, usually Example: He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before. 21. Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others. Labels: countable, metonymically, uncountable Example: He was called to the bar. 22. One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert. 23. A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value. Labels: countable, uncountable 24. One of those musical sections. Labels: countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable Example: That rapper there, yeah, he got bars. 25. One of those musical sections. Labels: broadly, countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable Example: His musical journey, and this is a quote, is “a constant push and pull between self awareness and delusion”. That’s bars right there to be honest. 26. A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault. Labels: countable, uncountable 27. Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: to set the bar high/low Example: to raise the bar 28. The crossbar. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar. 29. The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit. Labels: countable, uncountable 30. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act. Labels: countable, uncountable 31. A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially Labels: countable, uncountable 32. A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 33. One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways. 34. A city gate, in some British place names. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Temple Bar, London 35. A drilling or tamping rod. Labels: countable, uncountable 36. A vein or dike crossing a lode. Labels: countable, uncountable 37. A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. Labels: countable, uncountable 38. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable 39. The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable 40. A measure of drugs, typically one ounce. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Tell Sick Boy tae gie us a bell if ye see um. The bastard owes us twenty fuckin bar. 41. A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters. Labels: countable, uncountable