Word Finder - bar

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A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

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The window was protected by steel bars.

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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.

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Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.

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A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

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bar of chocolate

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A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.

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a bar of colour

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A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.

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Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly including oblique marks such as the slash.

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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.

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A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).

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A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.

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The street was lined with all-night bars.

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• barroom
• ginshop
• pub
• public house
• tavern

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The counter of such premises.

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Step up to the bar and order a drink.

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A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.

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(by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.

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An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

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An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.

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a burger bar

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An establishment offering cosmetic services.

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a nail bar; a brow bar

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An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

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The club has lifted its bar on women members.

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• ban
• prohibition

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

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(whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.

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Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.

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(Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.

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The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay

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"the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.

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He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.

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(metonym, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.

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He was called to the bar, he became a barrister.

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One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.

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I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.

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A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.

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One of those musical sections.

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• measure

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A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault

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Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.

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(most codes) The crossbar.

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The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.

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An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act

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A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.

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A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).

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One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.

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A city gate, in some British place names.

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Potter's Bar

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A drilling or tamping rod.

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A vein or dike crossing a lode.

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A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

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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.

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(in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

Let us put the bar there.

From a bar of iron he made four horseshoes.

He sat on the bar stool next to her.

He would find a bar where gangs hung out and purposely pick a fight with the biggest, most obnoxious member.

He sat at the bar, ordered a drink, then swiveled the stool for a better view.

Others were exposed to bar room fights, muggings, schooled in army combat or at least been the recipient of a bloody nose from a third grade bully.

She tossed the whiskey back and gulped it down, then slapped the glass on the bar before turning away.

Katie, you forgot your drink at the bar, Kris said, holding out the iced whiskey to her.

As if sensing she was some poor tourist, he dropped her off at a youth hostel located above a bar already teeming with people.

The Irish rock blaring from the bar below was loud enough, and cigarette smoke already curled in through the window.

They made their way to a small group at one side of the bar and squeezed their way into a booth meant for four and already holding four.

Katie whipped around the breakfast bar, eyes roving the kitchen for the knife block or something with which to defend herself.

Naw. She goes down to the bar on Tuesdays.

It contained a sofa, two wing chairs, a queen size bed, a fully stocked wet bar, kitchenette, bathroom, wide screen TV, books, and magazines.

There were a few couples at the bar, nothing interesting.

They chose a restaurant with a bar and music.

When he gets upset with me, his bar bill goes up.

He moved closer and she skirted the breakfast bar until it was between them.

He laid the suits across the bar and poured two drinks.

Jackson had chosen a restaurant with a bar area that had dancing.

They sat at a table in the bar, and after a few minutes Sam complained, "What do we have to do to get a drink around here?"

She didn't notice how far they'd gone until the blazing bar disappeared around a corner.

He started around the breakfast bar, and she kept pace with him on the opposite side.

Corday tossed two dollars on the bar and rose without a word.

He considered stopping for a beer or two but realized bellying up to the bar was no solution to life's problems.

She threw the suit back on the bar, and glared at him.

It consisted of a restaurant area, a large serpentine shaped bar and another room off to the side with two pool tables and a jukebox.

He paced around the parking lot for a few minutes cursing the first woman to ever deny him, and then stormed back into the bar, grabbed the red head, forced her to look into his eyes and growled, "You will not scream."

As he pulled her out of the bar, her eyes wide with fear, the boyfriend tried to stop him.

Jackson stood at the bar lost in thought.

Jackson set up the bar and Connor played gopher for everyone.

They made their way to the back of the bar where the bartender stood as if waiting for a bus.

He nuzzled her neck with his nose, "You realize you set the bar pretty high for next year."

He tossed him a bar of chocolate he'd stolen from the supplies.

In proportion as the mouth of the cove was wider compared with its length, the water over the bar was deeper compared with that in the basin.

The bar association should dump him.

He heard the bar slide into place and strode toward it to beat on the door.

Do you know that topless bar in Fayetteville?

Ingrid all but bolted out of the bar.

It's an open bar, Gerry said and motioned to the far side of the open space marking the living area.

He took a bite out of an ice cream bar he found in the refrigerator.

He had just been admitted to the bar, but on the outbreak of war he at once offered his services to the governor, and became lieutenant-colonel and then colonel of the 42nd Ohio Volunteers, recruited largely from among his former students.

William Livingston graduated at Yale College in 1741, studied law in the city of New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1748.

A few days later Nuncomar was thrown into prison on a charge of forgery preferred by a private prosecutor, tried before the supreme court sitting in bar, found guilty by a jury of Englishmen and sentenced to be hanged.

At last, in 1795, the House of Lords gave a verdict of not guilty on all charges laid against him; and he left the bar at which he had so frequently appeared, with his reputation clear, but ruined in fortune.

In 1803 Palgrave was articled to a firm of solicitors, but was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1827.

It is noted for the fine boxwood grown in the vicinity, is a port of call for Black Sea coasting steamers and carries on a considerable trade with Constantinople which might be increased were it not for the obstruction of the harbour by a bar.

He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1786.

Being brought before the bar of the House of Lords he made submission as to his conduct in declaring parliament dissolved by the prorogation, and in violating the Lords' privileges by bringing a habeas corpus in the King's Bench.

In 1721 he entered Merton College, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner, and studied philosophy, mathematics, French, Italian and music. He afterwards studied law at the Inner Temple, but was never called to the bar.