bar
English
/bɑː/, /bɑɹ/
noun
Definitions
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (countable) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨⟩, fraction bar (as in ), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- (mathematics) 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.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
- The counter of such premises.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (programming) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo (foo).
- (UK) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- (UK) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
- (US) "the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- (law) Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
- (telecommunications) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (music) One of those musical sections.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
- (metaphorical) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- (football) The crossbar.
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- (geography) 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).
- (heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (farriery) 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.
- (farriery) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English barre derived from Old French barre (bar, barrier, beam, gate, bolt) derived from Latin *barra derived from Frankish *bara (bar, fence, barrier, beam) derived from Proto-Germanic *barō (beam, barrier, bar) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (pierce, strike, brown, bore, dig, cut, carve, grey, rub, split).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰerH-
Gloss
pierce, strike, brown, bore, dig, cut, carve, grey, rub, split
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- app English
- appbar English
- arm English
- armbar English
- back English
- bar-goer English
- barback English
- barboy English
- barcode English
- barcoder English
- barfight English
- barfish English
- barfly English
- barful English
- bargirl English
- bargoer English
- barhop English
- barhopper English
- baric English
- baricity English
- barista English
- barkeep English
- barkeeper English
- barkeeping English
- barlady English
- barless English
- barlessness English
- barlike English
- barline English
- barmaid English
- barman English
- barnight English
- barperson English
- barplot English
- barpost English
- barrable English
- barre English
- barre chord English
- barrer English
- barreth English
- barroom English
- barside English
- barspin English
- bartack English
- bartender English
- bartenderess English
- bartendress English
- bartop English
- barwalking English
- barware English
- barway English
- barwise English
- barwoman English
- barwood English
- bebar English
- boy English
- brush English
- brushbar English
- bus English
- busbar English
- centibar English
- coder English
- copper English
- copperbar English
- crossbar English
- crossbarred English
- crow English
- crowbar English
- curl English
- curl bar English
- decibar English
- disbar English
- disbarment English
- disbarrable English
- drag English
- dragbar English
- draw English
- drawbar English
- eye English
- eyebar English
- fight English
- fire English
- firebar English
- fish English
- flash English
- flashbar English
- fly English
- foot English
- footbar English
- forbar English
- girl English
- goer English
- granola English
- granola bar English
- handle English
- handlebar English
- heterobaric English
- homobaric English
- hop English
- hopper English
- hot English
- hotbar English
- hyperbaric English
- hypobaric English
- imbar English
- keep English
- keeper English
- keeping English
- kilobar English
- knee English
- kneebar English
- lady English
- life English
- lifebar English
- light English
- lightbar English
- line English
- maid English
- megabar English
- metabarcoder English
- microbar English
- millibar English
- minibar English
- monobaric English
- multibar English
- multibaric English
- nanobar English
- night English
- nonbar English
- normobaric English
- nut English
- nutbar English
- outbar English
- overbar English
- person English
- photobaric English
- picobar English
- pinch English
- pinchbar English
- plot English
- post English
- pry English
- prybar English
- roll English
- rollbar English
- room English
- sand English
- sandbar English
- side English
- sidebar English
- snack English
- snackbar English
- sole English
- solebar English
- sound English
- soundbar English
- spin English
- strip English
- strip bar English
- swingle English
- swinglebar English
- tack English
- task English
- taskbar English
- tender English
- thermobaric English
- tie English
- tiebar English
- toll English
- tollbar English
- tone English
- tonebar English
- tool English
- toolbar English
- top English
- topbar English
- track English
- trackbar English
- tribar English
- type English
- typebar English
- unbar English
- underbar English
- upbar English
- walking English
- water English
- waterbar English
- way English
- woman English
- wood English
- baari Finnish
- *barra Latin
- *imbarricāre Latin
- *labanka Latin
- barra Latin
- ferentarius Latin
- ferio Latin
- ferīta Latin
- foro Latin
- forāmen Latin
- forāre Latin
- pharus Latin
- Bar German
- Barhocker German
- Barkeeper German
- Barmann German
- Barmixer German
- Barre German
- Barren German
- Barstuhl German
- Bartender German
- Cocktailbar German
- Hausbar German
- Salatbar German
- abarognosia Italian
- bar Italian
- barista Italian
- barra Italian
- frigobar Italian
- microbar Italian
- millibar Italian
- minibar Italian
- bar Dutch, Flemish
- barkruk Dutch, Flemish
- barman Dutch, Flemish
- barrevoets Dutch, Flemish
- barvoets Dutch, Flemish
- barvrouw Dutch, Flemish
- homobar Dutch, Flemish
- koffiebar Dutch, Flemish
- bar French
- bar laitier French
- barmaid French
- barman French
- barrage French
- barre French
- barre de fraction French
- barre oblique French
- barrement French
- barrer French
- barrette French
- barreur French
- phare French
- restobar French
- бар Russian
- бариста Russian
- барме́н Russian
- бармен Russian
- забо́р Russian
- заборчик Russian
- bar Spanish, Castilian
- barcito Spanish, Castilian
- barman Spanish, Castilian
- barra Spanish, Castilian
- barrote Spanish, Castilian
- bartender Spanish, Castilian
- cierrabares Spanish, Castilian
- embargar Spanish, Castilian
- frigobar Spanish, Castilian
- minibar Spanish, Castilian
- βάρος Ancient Greek
- βράγος Ancient Greek
- φάρος Ancient Greek
- φρύνη Ancient Greek
- ἀβαρής Ancient Greek
- ῐ̓́σος Ancient Greek
- *bʰars- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰerH- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰerH-o-s Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰruH-ró-s Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰruHg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰébʰrus Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷreh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- barometer Norwegian Bokmål
- bartender Norwegian Bokmål
- bar Portuguese
- barman Portuguese
- barra Portuguese
- barrar Portuguese
- barreira Portuguese
- barrote Portuguese
- frigobar Portuguese
- minibar Portuguese
- quilobar Portuguese
- *barjaną Proto-Germanic
- *barō Proto-Germanic
- *berô Proto-Germanic
- *brūnaz Proto-Germanic
- *burōną Proto-Germanic
- bar Swedish
- ツールバー Japanese
- バー Japanese
- バーテンダー Japanese
- bar Polish
- barek Polish
- barista Polish
- barman Polish
- bar Norwegian Nynorsk
- barnål Norwegian Nynorsk
- barometer Norwegian Nynorsk
- barskog Norwegian Nynorsk
- bartender Norwegian Nynorsk
- bartre Norwegian Nynorsk
- millibar Norwegian Nynorsk
- brerd Old English
- barre Middle English
- bibarren Middle English
- crose bar Middle English
- forbarren Middle English
- unbarren Middle English
- bar Irish
- bara- Irish
- beár Irish
- iseabar Irish
- barometer Danish
- barre Danish
- bar Czech
- barman Czech
- barový Czech
- barre Old French
- barriere Old French
- bari Esperanto
- bar Serbo-Croatian
- barometar Serbo-Croatian
- бар Serbo-Croatian
- bar Catalan, Valencian
- barra Catalan, Valencian
- bar Icelandic
- barþjónn Icelandic
- millibar Icelandic
- bar Galician
- minibar Galician
- bara Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- barman Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- بور Persian
- บาร์ Thai
- φάρος Greek (modern)
- բիր Old Armenian
- բորենի Old Armenian
- bar Afrikaans
- бар Bulgarian
- bord Middle High German
- ဘား Burmese
- barre Middle French
- ברמן Hebrew (modern)
- brejo Old Portuguese
- 兔爸 Chinese
- 巴 Chinese
- bar Old Swedish
- 바텐더 Korean
- ibha Zulu
- បារ Central Khmer
- *bara Frankish
- baras Lithuanian
- ibhari Xhosa
- koroba Tok Pisin
- *bara Proto-Albanian
- *bera Proto-Albanian
- *birjā Proto-Albanian
- *brima Proto-Albanian
- *bárˀnis Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *bárˀtei Proto-Balto-Slavic
- ba Malagasy
- *barros Gaulish
- بار Gulf Arabic
- kurbaal Fiji Hindi
- hop
- arm
- pry
- nut
- way
- fly
- top
- app
- tie
- hot
- boy
- bus
- eye
- girl
- foot
- crow
- sole
- wood
- spin
- maid
- post
- tone
- type
- tool
- tack
- back
- fish
- toll
- plot
- line
- goer
- knee
- curl
- fire
- life
- draw
- lady
- sand
- room
- drag
- task
- roll
- side
- keep
- light
- track
- barre
- woman
- night
- strip
- unbar
- flash
- upbar
- water
- snack
- coder
- bebar
- imbar
- pinch
- baric
- brush
- fight
- sound
- disbar
- outbar
- barfly
- topbar
- appbar
- barman
- nonbar
- tiebar
- forbar
- tribar
- handle
- copper
- keeper
- barhop
- bartop
- busbar
- prybar
- barrer
- person
- armbar
- eyebar
- barway
- barboy
- hotbar
- hopper
- tender
- barful
- nutbar
- overbar
- rollbar
- typebar
- barspin
- keeping
- barwise
- drawbar
- picobar
- megabar
- barfish
- granola
- nanobar
- barreth
- barplot
- barless
- barline
- minibar
- tollbar
- bartack
- bargoer
- barpost
- decibar
- barcode
- crowbar
- barkeep
- sandbar
- kneebar
- sidebar
- tonebar
- footbar
- toolbar
- walking
- dragbar
- barside
- barroom
- swingle
- barware
- taskbar
- barback
- kilobar
- barlike
- solebar
- bargirl
- barlady
- firebar
- lifebar
- barista
- barmaid
- barwood
- multibar
- soundbar
- snackbar
- pinchbar
- millibar
- microbar
- flashbar
- bar-goer
- brushbar
- lightbar
- waterbar
- centibar
- barwoman
- barrable
- crossbar
- barnight
- barcoder
- curl bar
- trackbar
- barfight
- underbar
- baricity
- strip bar
- bartender
- barhopper
- monobaric
- copperbar
- handlebar
- homobaric
- barperson
- hypobaric
- barkeeper
- barkeeping
- barwalking
- disbarment
- normobaric
- multibaric
- swinglebar
- photobaric
- hyperbaric
- granola bar
- barlessness
- barre chord
- thermobaric
- crossbarred
- disbarrable
- bartendress
- heterobaric
- bartenderess
- metabarcoder