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.
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.
prep. Except for; excluding: This was your best performance, bar none.
[Middle English barre, from Old French; see barre.]
bar 2 (bär) n. A unit of pressure equal to one million (106) dynes per square centimeter.
[Greek baros, weight; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots.]
BAR abbr. Browning automatic rifle
barre also bar (bär) n.
A handrail fixed to a wall, as in a dance studio, used by ballet dancers as a support in certain exercises.
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.]
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.
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.
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.
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.
bride
O.E. bryd, from P.Gmc. *bruthiz "woman being married" (cf. O.Fris. breid, Du. bruid, O.H.G. brut, Ger. Braut "bride"). Goth. cognate bruþs, however, meant "daughter-in-law," and the form of the word borrowed from O.H.G. into M.L. (bruta) and O.Fr. (bruy) only had this sense. In ancient IE custom, the married woman went to live with her husband's family, so the only "newly-wed female" in such a household would be the daughter-in-law. On the same notion, some trace the word itself to the PIE verbal root *bru- "to cook, brew, make broth," as this was the daughter-in-law's job. Bridesmaid is from 1552 (as bridemaid).
A graphical representation of a stock's movement that usually contains the open, high, low and closing prices for a set period of time.
Investopedia Commentary
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.
Main Entry: bar Pronunciation: 'bär Function: noun often attrib1 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, STANDb:COURT, TRIBUNALbar> 2 a: the whole body of lawyers; especially: those qualified to practice in the courts of a particular jurisdiction bar> bar> —compare BENCH 3bb: the profession or occupation of lawyer c:BAR EXAMINATIONbar> 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>
Main Entry: bar Function: transitive verb Inflected Forms: barred; bar·ring 1: to keep out :EXCLUDEbar 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·bleadjective
Main Entry: 1bar Pronunciation: 'bär Function: noun often attributive1 a: a piece of metal that connects parts of aremovable partial denture b: the part of the wall of a horse's hoof that is bent inward toward the frog at the heel on each side and that extends toward the center of the sole 2: a straight stripe, band, or line much longer than it is wide: as a: a transverse ridge on the roof of a horse's mouth —usually used in plural b: the space in front of the molar teeth of a horse in which the bit is placed
Main Entry: 2bar Function: transitive verb Inflected Forms: barred;bar·ring : to cut free and ligate (a vein in a horse's leg) aboveand below the site of a projected operative procedure
Main Entry: 3bar Function: noun : a unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals or to one million dynes per square centimeter or to 0.9869 atmosphere
Main Entry: bar Function: abbreviation barometer; barometric
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).
[bahr] 
noun, verb, barred, bar⋅ring, preposition 