Word Finder - bars

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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.

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To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

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Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.

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To prohibit.

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I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.

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To lock or bolt with a bar.

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bar the door

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To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

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A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

She sat next to the bars on her cell.

Not so brave without those bars between us, are you, Lunchmeat?

Doc, I need some meal bars, anti-sleepers, and pain killers.

Memon's lifeless body was wedged between the bars of one cell.

These Chaco rivers are obstructed by sand bars and snags, which could be removed only by an expenditure of money unwarranted by the present population and traffic. In the southern pampa.

Though she tried hard not to fear death, she wondered what kind of creature was capable of breaking through bars made of materials she'd never before seen and held in place with some sort of magic.

The bars of her cell dissipated at his command, and she stepped into the hall.

Besides, if he was imprisoned for a crime like these murders, he'd still be rotting behind bars.

The masculine voice gave a surprised laugh, and he pressed his face to the bars.

His hands appeared through the cell bars.

The icicles are prison bars on our windows, trapping us, prisoners to this life of sin and degradation...

He locked the door and stood staring at her through the bars.

Sniffing the air, the wolf turned to him, and then trotted to the bars.

He tentatively slipped one hand through the bars.

Steel bars separated us initially, until it was clear she had no desire to harm me.

She checked the status of the systems from her micro and downed dehydrated meal bars and anti-sleepers.

It was stocked with meal bars.

She clenched her meal bars and crossed to the living area, sitting with her back to him.

She sat back in the low couch and ate her meal bars, mind going to the micro in his pocket.

She had enough for a month, but after a few days, she found herself wishing for real food instead of the stale bars.

He gripped the bars of his cell and pressed his face against them, trying to see into the neighboring cells.

We checked a couple of bars local to the World Wide office but they were crazy-busy after-work places and no one remembers diddly.

The sun pushed aside the shadows as it emerged from the depths of the distant sea until it sat on the horizon, casting long shadows and brilliant bars of light into the walled city.

She put a foot on the bottom rail, between the bars and gave herself a boost.

Her mind went to the quadruple locks on the front door and bars on the window.

I'll be standing by the monkey bars.

Yes. I can ask for directions to bars and brothels in another ten.

It is also darker in colour, has less of the frontal crest, shorter legs, a longer tail, and the markings beneath take the form of bars rather than stripes, while the bill, eyes and legs are all black.

Within the city the principal streets have been roughly paved, and iron bars placed across the narrow alleys to prevent the passage of camels.

On the east coast the principal streams are the Petani, Telubin, Kelantan, Besut, Trengganu, Dungun, Kmamun, Kuantan, Pahang, Rompin, Endau and Sedeli, all guarded by difficult bars at their mouths, and dangerous during the continuance of the north-east monsoon.

Such a passage as bars 5 to 8 in the first movement of Beethoven's 8th symphony is as unintelligible from the point of view of Wagnerian opera as the opening of the Rheingold is unintelligible from the point of view of symphony.

In the Ader transmitter as many as twelve carbon pencils were employed, arranged in a series of two groups with six pencils in parallel in each group. These were supported at their ends in parallel carbon bars, which were carried by a nearly horizontal wooden diaphragm.

In places the nematocysts may be crowded so thickly as to form a tough, supporting, " chondral " tissue, resembling cartilage, chiefly developed at the margin of the umbrella and forming streaks or bars supporting the tentacles (" Tentakelspangen," peronia) or the tentaculocysts (" Gehorspangen," otoporpae).

The whole of the middle lamella or originally formed cell-wall separating one from another disappears before the adult state is reached, so that the walls of the hydroids consist of a framework of lignified bars, with open communication between the cell cavities.

The river is navigable to Quibdo (250 m.), and for the greater part of its course for large vessels, but the bars at its mouth prevent the entrance of sea-going steamers.

The next important development in rail design originated in America, which, for the few lines that had been laid up to 1830, remained content with wooden bars faced with iron.

In this case the rack had pin teeth carried in a pair of angle bars.

There are no good ports on the coast because of the bars at the mouths of the rivers.

The harbours along the sounds and in the estuaries of the rivers are well protected from the storms of the ocean by the long chain of narrow islands in front, but navigation by the largest vessels is interrupted by shoals in the sounds, and especially by bars crossing the inlets between islands.

In earlier times a bridge here crossed the Fleet, leading from Newgate, while a quarter of a mile west of the viaduct is the site of Holborn Bars, at the entrance to the City, where tolls were levied.

The solidification is a very gradual process, depending, of course, for its completion on the size of the block; but before cutting into bars it is essential that the whole should be set and hardened through and through, else the cut bars would not hold together.

Many ingenious devices for forming bars have been produced; but generally a strong frame is used, across which steel wires are stretched at distances equal to the size of the bars to be made, the blocks being first cut into slabs and then into bars.

The soap is now milled in the form of ribbons with the perfume and colouring matter, and the resulting strips are welded into bars by forcing through a heated nozzle.

The bars are then cut or moulded into tablets, according to the practice of the manufacturer.

Sand bars keep filling up the mouths of these channels, necessitating frequent dredging and extension of the breakwaters, work undertaken by the Federal government, which also maintains a most comprehensive and completeystem of aids to navigation, including lighthouses and lightships, fog alarms, gas and other buoys, life-saving, storm signal and weather report stations.

The mature Wagner would not have carried out twenty bars in his flattest scenes with so little musical invention.

Of the gates, called Bars, the best specimen is Micklegate Bar on the S.W., where the heads of traitors were formerly exposed.

From serving primitively as the essential organ of the cleft the tongue-bar may have undergone reduction and modification, becoming a secondary bar in Amphioxus, subordinate to the primary bars in size, vascularity and development; finally, in the craniate vertebrates it would then have completed its involution, the suggestion having been made that the tongue-bars are represented by the thymusprimordia.

At the same time small bars of argentiferous lead, inserted at the back, are slowly pushed forward, so that in melting down they may replace the oxidized lead.

The distribution of magnetism and the position of the poles in magnets of other shapes, such as cylindrical or rectangular bars, cannot be specified by any general statement, though approximate determinations may be obtained experimentally in individual cases.'