bar
- Proper noun. A city in Montenegro.
- Noun. A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- Noun. (metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater (US), a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- Noun. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- Noun. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- Noun. A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. (For example, turning '''A''' into '''Ⱥ'''.).
- Noun. A business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
- Noun. The counter of such a premises.
- Noun. A similar device or simply a closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room.
- Noun. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- Noun. (computing, whimsical) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- Noun. (UK, legal) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- Noun. (legal, "the Bar") Short for the Bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- Noun. (legal, "the Bar") A collective term for lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
- Noun. (legal, loosely) The legal profession of lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
- Noun. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- Noun. (music) One of those musical sections.
- Noun. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault.
- Noun. (soccer) The crossbar.
- Noun. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- Noun. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- Noun. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- Noun. (nautical) 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).
- Noun. (heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
- Noun. A generic unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
- Noun. A city gate in UK places names, such as 'Potters Bar.'.
- Verb. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- Verb. (transitive) To prohibit.
- Verb. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
- Preposition. Except, with the exception of.
- Noun. A unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals.
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