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bar1       [bahr] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, barred, bar·ring, preposition
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1.a relatively long, evenly shaped piece of some solid substance, as metal or wood, used as a guard or obstruction or for some mechanical purpose: the bars of a cage.
2.an oblong piece of any solid material: a bar of soap; a candy bar.
3.the amount of material in a bar.
4.an ingot, lump, or wedge of gold or silver.
5.a long ridge of sand, gravel, or other material near or slightly above the surface of the water at or near the mouth of a river or harbor entrance, often constituting an obstruction to navigation.
6.anything that obstructs, hinders, or impedes; obstacle; barrier: a bar to important legislation.
7.a counter or place where beverages, esp. liquors, or light meals are served to customers: a snack bar; a milk bar.
8.a barroom or tavern.
9.(in a home) a counter, small wagon, or similar piece of furniture for serving food or beverages: a breakfast bar.
10.the legal profession.
11.the practicing members of the legal profession in a given community.
12.any tribunal: the bar of public opinion.
13.a band or strip: a bar of light.
14.a railing in a courtroom separating the general public from the part of the room occupied by the judges, jury, attorneys, etc.
15.a crowbar.
16.Music.
a.Also called bar line. the line marking the division between two measures of music.
b.double bar.
c.the unit of music contained between two bar lines; measure.
17.Ballet. barre.
18.Law.
a.an objection that nullifies an action or claim.
b.a stoppage or defeat of an alleged right of action.
19.Typography. a horizontal stroke of a type character, as of an A, H, t, and sometimes e.
20.Architecture. (in tracery) a relatively long and slender upright of stone treated as a colonette or molded.
21.Building Trades.
a.an iron or steel shape: I-bar.
b.a muntin.
22.Military. one of a pair of metal or cloth insignia worn by certain commissioned officers.
23.bars, the transverse ridges on the roof of the mouth of a horse.
24.a space between the molar and canine teeth of a horse into which the bit is fitted.
25.(in a bridle) the mouthpiece connecting the cheeks.
26.bride2 (def. 1).
27.Heraldry. a horizontal band, narrower than a fess, that crosses the field of an escutcheon.
28.Obsolete. a gateway capable of being barred.
–verb (used with object)
29.to equip or fasten with a bar or bars: Bar the door before retiring for the night.
30.to block by or as if by bars: The police barred the exits in an attempt to prevent the thief's escape.
31.to prevent or hinder: They barred her entrance to the club.
32.to exclude or except: He was barred from membership because of his reputation.
33.to mark with bars, stripes, or bands.
–preposition
34.except; omitting; but: bar none.
—Idioms
35.at bar, Law.
a.before the court and being tried: a case at bar.
b.before all the judges of a court: a trial at bar.
36.behind bars, in jail: We wanted the criminal behind bars.
[Origin: 1175–1225; ME barre < OF < VL *barra rod, of obscure, perh. of pre-L orig.]

—Related forms
barless, adjective
bar·ra·ble, adjective

—Synonyms 1. rod, pole. 5. shoal, reef, bank, sand bar. 6. deterrent, stop. Bar, barrier, barricade mean something put in the way of advance. Bar has the general meaning of hindrance or obstruction: a bar across the doorway. Barrier suggests an impediment to progress or a defensive obstruction (natural or artificial): a trade barrier; a mountain barrier; a road barrier. A barricade is esp. a pile of articles hastily gathered or a rude earthwork for protection in street fighting: a barricade of wooden boxes. 7. saloon, café; cocktail lounge. 30, 31. obstruct, deter, impede, barricade. 32. eliminate.
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bar2       [bahr] Pronunciation Key
–noun
mosquito net.
[Origin: 1770–80; < LaF bère, baire, appar. repr. dial. pron. of F barre barrier, bar1]
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bar3       [bahr] Pronunciation Key
–noun Physics.
1.a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one million dynes per square centimeter.
2.(formerly) microbar. Abbreviation: b
[Origin: 1900–05; < Gk báros weight; cf. barometer, isobar]
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BAR
Browning automatic rifle.
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Bar.
Bible.
Baruch.
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bar.
1.barometer.
2.barometric.
3.barrel.
4.barrister.
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B.Ar.
Bachelor of Architecture.
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bar 1       (bär)  Pronunciation Key 


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n.  
  1. A relatively long, straight, rigid piece of solid material used as a fastener, support, barrier, or structural or mechanical member.
    1. A solid oblong block of a substance, such as soap or candy.
    2. A rectangular block of a precious metal.
    3. A horizontal bar.
    4. A horizontal rod that marks the height to be cleared in high jumping or pole vaulting.
    5. A narrow metal or embroidered strip worn on a military uniform indicating rank or service.
    6. Chiefly British A small insignia worn on a military decoration indicating that it has been awarded an additional time.
    7. The nullification, defeat, or prevention of a claim or action.
    8. The process by which nullification, defeat, or prevention is achieved.
    9. Attorneys considered as a group.
    10. The profession of law.
    11. A vertical line drawn through a staff to mark off a measure.
    12. A measure.
    13. A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.
    14. An establishment or room having such a counter.
  3. Sports
    1. A horizontal bar.
    2. A horizontal rod that marks the height to be cleared in high jumping or pole vaulting.
    3. A narrow metal or embroidered strip worn on a military uniform indicating rank or service.
    4. Chiefly British A small insignia worn on a military decoration indicating that it has been awarded an additional time.
    5. The nullification, defeat, or prevention of a claim or action.
    6. The process by which nullification, defeat, or prevention is achieved.
    7. Attorneys considered as a group.
    8. The profession of law.
    9. A vertical line drawn through a staff to mark off a measure.
    10. A measure.
    11. A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.
    12. An establishment or room having such a counter.
  4. A standard, expectation, or degree of requirement: a leader whose example set a high bar for others.
  5. Something that impedes or prevents action or progress. See Synonyms at obstacle.
  6. A ridge, as of sand or gravel, on a shore or streambed, that is formed by the action of tides or currents.
  7. A narrow marking, as a stripe or band.
    1. A narrow metal or embroidered strip worn on a military uniform indicating rank or service.
    2. Chiefly British A small insignia worn on a military decoration indicating that it has been awarded an additional time.
    3. The nullification, defeat, or prevention of a claim or action.
    4. The process by which nullification, defeat, or prevention is achieved.
    5. Attorneys considered as a group.
    6. The profession of law.
    7. A vertical line drawn through a staff to mark off a measure.
    8. A measure.
    9. A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.
    10. An establishment or room having such a counter.
  9. Heraldry A pair of horizontal parallel lines drawn across a shield.
  10. Law
    1. The nullification, defeat, or prevention of a claim or action.
    2. The process by which nullification, defeat, or prevention is achieved.
    3. Attorneys considered as a group.
    4. The profession of law.
    5. A vertical line drawn through a staff to mark off a measure.
    6. A measure.
    7. A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.
    8. An establishment or room having such a counter.
  11. The railing in a courtroom enclosing the part of the room where the judges and lawyers sit, witnesses are heard, and prisoners are tried.
  12. A place of judgment; a tribunal.
  13. Law
    1. Attorneys considered as a group.
    2. The profession of law.
    3. A vertical line drawn through a staff to mark off a measure.
    4. A measure.
    5. A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.
    6. An establishment or room having such a counter.
  14. Music
    1. A vertical line drawn through a staff to mark off a measure.
    2. A measure.
    3. A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.
    4. An establishment or room having such a counter.
  15. Variant of barre.
    1. A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.
    2. An establishment or room having such a counter.

tr.v.   barred, bar·ring, bars
  1. To fasten securely with a long, straight, rigid piece of material.
  2. To shut in or out with or as if with bars.
  3. To obstruct or impede; block.
  4. To keep out; exclude. See Synonyms at hinder1.
  5. To rule out; except.
  6. To mark with stripes or bands.
  7. Law To stop (a claim or action) by objection.

prep.   Except for; excluding: This was your best performance, bar none.


[Middle English barre, from Old French; see barre.]

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bar 2       (bär)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A unit of pressure equal to one million (106) dynes per square centimeter.


[Greek baros, weight; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots.]

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BAR  
abbr.   Browning automatic rifle

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barre also bar       (bär)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A handrail fixed to a wall, as in a dance studio, used by ballet dancers as a support in certain exercises.
  2. A fingering technique used with fretted stringed instruments in which a finger is laid across the fretboard to stop all or several strings at once.


[French, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *barra, of Gaulish origin.]

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Browning automatic rifle  
n.   Abbr. BAR
A .30-caliber air-cooled, automatic or semiautomatic, gas-operated, magazine-fed rifle used by U.S. troops in World Wars I and II and the Korean War.


[After John Moses Browning.]

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bar  (1)
c.1175, "stake or rod of iron used to fasten a door or gate," from O.Fr. barre, from V.L. *barra "bar, barrier," which some suggest is from Gaulish *barros "the bushy end," but OED regards this as "discredited" because it "in no way suits the sense." Bar code first recorded 1963. Behind bars "in prison" is from 1951. Meaning "bank of sand across a harbor or river mouth" is from 1586, so called because it was an obstruction to navigation.

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bar  (2)
"tavern," 1592, from the bars of the barrier or counter over which drinks or food were served to customers (see bar (1)). Barmaid is from 1772; bar-tender is 1836, Amer.Eng.; barfly "habitual drunkard" is from 1910.

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bar  (3)
"whole body of lawyers, the legal profession," 1559, a sense which derives ultimately from the railing that separated benchers from the hall in the Inns of Court. Students who had attained a certain standing were "called" to it to take part in the important exercises of the house. After c.1600, however, this was popularly assumed to mean the bar in a courtroom, which was the wooden railing marking off the area around the judge's seat, where prisoners stood for arraignment and where a barrister (q.v.) stood to plead. As the place where the business of court was done, bar in this sense had become synonymous with "court" by c.1330.

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bar

noun
1. a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom] 
2. a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" 
3. a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" 
4. musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" [syn: measure] 
5. an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar" 
6. the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [syn: prevention] 
7. (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter" 
8. a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" 
9. the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" [syn: legal profession] 
10. a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" [syn: stripe] 
11. a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: cake] 
12. a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn: Browning automatic rifle] 
13. a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises 
14. a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars" 
15. (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar" 

verb
1. prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" 
2. render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade] 
3. expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" [syn: banish] 
4. secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant: unbar] 

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bar

In addition to the idiom beginning with bar, also see behind bars; no holds barred.


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bar       (bär)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. A unit used to measure atmospheric pressure. It is equal to a force of 100,000 newtons per square meter of surface area, or 0.987 atmosphere.
  2. An elongated, offshore ridge of sand, gravel, or other unconsolidated sediment, formed by the action of waves or long-shore currents and submerged at least during high tide. Bars are especially common near the mouths of rivers or estuaries.
  3. A ridgelike mound of sand, gravel or silt formed within a stream, along its banks, or at its mouth. Bars form where the stream's current slows down, causing sediment to be deposited.

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bar (bär)
n.

  1. The international unit of pressure equal to 1 megadyne (106 dyne) per square centimeter or 0.987 atmosphere.
  2. A metal segment of greater length than width which serves to connect two or more parts of a removable partial denture.
  3. A segment of tissue or a tight cellular junction that serves to constrict the passage of fluid, usually urine.

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Bar

A graphical representation of a stock's movement that usually contains the open, high, low and closing prices for a set period of time.

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For example, if a technical trader is working with daily data, one bar is the set of quotes for one day. In the case of one-minute data, it is the price data for one minute. Also, if the data is displayed using a candlestick chart, one bar equals one candlestick or in the case of bar charts, one bar is equal to one bar.

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Main Entry: bar
Pronunciation: 'bär
Function: noun
often attrib 1 a : the railing in a courtroom that encloses the area around the judge where prisoners are stationed in criminal cases or where the business of the court is transacted in civil cases —compare BENCH 1, DOCK, JURY BOX, STAND b : COURT, TRIBUNAL bar>
2 a : the whole body of lawyers; especially : those qualified to practice in the courts of a particular jurisdiction bar> bar> —compare BENCH 3b b : the profession or occupation of lawyer c : BAR EXAMINATION bar>
3 : something that prevents admission, progress, or action: as a : an intangible impediment, obstacle, or barrier bar> bar to conviction> b : the permanent preclusion of a claim or action esp. due to the loss of a previous suit based on the same cause of action and between the same parties bar to the present suit —Martino v. McDonald's System, Incorporated, 598 Federal Reporter, Second Series 1079 (1979)> bar to the present action> —compare collateral estoppel at ESTOPPEL 2a, MERGER 4, RES JUDICATA 2—at bar : before the court at bar>—at the bar : in the legal profession at the bar —Railroad E. Hauser>

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Main Entry: bar
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: barred; bar·ring
1 : to keep out : EXCLUDE bar the items from sale>
2 : to prevent from doing or accomplishing (something) bar her recovery> bars his reinstatement>
3 : PRECLUDE: as a : to act as a bar to (as a claim or action) bars actions —Louisiana Civil Code> barred the subsequent claim> b : to prevent (a party) from bringing a claim or action barred by the judgment…from relitigating their claims —Roach v. Teamsters Local Union Number 688, 595 Federal Reporter, Second Series 446 (1979)> —see also ESTOP —compare MERGE 2 —bar·ra·ble adjective

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bar
1. /bar/ The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz. E.g. "Suppose function FOO calls functions BAR..."
2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar.
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bar

/bar/ n.
1. [very common] The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz. "Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR...."
2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar.

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Bar Harbor, ME (CDP, FIPS 2830) Location: 44.38242 N, 68.21187 W
Population (1990): 2768 (1537 housing units)
Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 04609

Bar Nunn, WY (town, FIPS 5248) Location: 42.92621 N, 106.34633 W
Population (1990): 835 (291 housing units)
Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Diamond Bar, CA (city, FIPS 19192) Location: 33.99940 N, 117.81428 W
Population (1990): 53672 (17664 housing units)
Area: 39.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 91765, 91789

Big Bar, CA Zip code(s): 96010

Goodyears Bar, CA Zip code(s): 95944

Sawyers Bar, CA Zip code(s): 96027

Scott Bar, CA Zip code(s): 96085

Somes Bar, CA Zip code(s): 95568

Gold Bar, WA (town, FIPS 27365) Location: 47.85775 N, 121.69570 W
Population (1990): 1078 (431 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Bar\ (b[aum]r), n. [OE. barre, F. barre, fr. LL. barra, W. bar the branch of a tree, bar, baren branch, Gael. & Ir. barra bar. [root]91.]

1. A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.

Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood. --Ex. xxvi. 26.

2. An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.

3. Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.

Must I new bars to my own joy create? --Dryden.

4. A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

5. Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.

6. (Law) (a) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court. (b) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence. (c) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession. (d) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.

7. Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.

8. A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

9. (Her.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

10. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.

11. (Mus.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

Note: A double bar marks the end of a strain or main division of a movement, or of a whole piece of music; in psalmody, it marks the end of a line of poetry. The term bar is very often loosely used for measure, i.e., for such length of music, or of silence, as is included between one bar and the next; as, a passage of eight bars; two bars' rest.

12. (Far.) pl. (a) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed. (b) 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 center of the sole.

13. (Mining) (a) A drilling or tamping rod. (b) A vein or dike crossing a lode.

14. (Arch.) (a) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. (b) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.

Bar shoe (Far.), a kind of horseshoe having a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury.

Bar shot, a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat.

Bar sinister (Her.), a term popularly but erroneously used for baton, a mark of illegitimacy. See Baton.

Bar tracery (Arch.), ornamental stonework resembling bars of iron twisted into the forms required.

Blank bar (Law). See Blank.

Case at bar (Law), a case presently before the court; a case under argument.

In bar of, as a sufficient reason against; to prevent.

Matter in bar, or Defence in bar, a plea which is a final defense in an action.

Plea in bar, a plea which goes to bar or defeat the plaintiff's action absolutely and entirely.

Trial at bar (Eng. Law), a trial before all the judges of one the superior courts of Westminster, or before a quorum representing the full court.

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Bar

Bar\ (b[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barred (b[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Barring.] [ F. barrer. See Bar, n.]

1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.

2. To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.

He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. --Hawthorne.

3. To except; to exclude by exception.

Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. --Shak.

4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines.

For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly. --Burney.

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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Bar

used to denote the means by which a door is bolted (Neh. 3:3); a rock in the sea (Jonah 2:6); the shore of the sea (Job 38:10); strong fortifications and powerful impediments, etc. (Isa. 45:2; Amos 1:5); defences of a city (1 Kings 4:13). A bar for a door was of iron (Isa. 45:2), brass (Ps. 107:16), or wood (Nah. 3:13).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary