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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Adj

Definition 1:
• Acronym of bright, alert, responsive.
Labels: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, sciences, veterinary, zoology, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, slang
Adv
Pronunciation: /bɑː/

Definition 1:
• Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
Example: Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.
Labels: hobbies, horse-racing, horseracing, horses, lifestyle, pets, racing, sports, not-comparable
Name

Definition 1:
• Alternative spelling of bar.
Labels: law, alt-of, alternative

Definition 2:
• A town and municipality of Montenegro.

Definition 3:
• A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.

Definition 4:
• A town in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.

Definition 5:
• A male or female given name from Hebrew.

Definition 6:
• Acronym of Bureau of Automotive Repair
Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

Definition 7:
• A diminutive of the male given name Barry.
Noun

Definition 1:
• Initialism of Browning automatic rifle.
Labels: government, military, politics, war, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Noun
Pronunciation: /bɑː/

Definition 1:
• A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
Example: The window was protected by steel bars.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 2:
• A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
Example: Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux.
Labels: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences, uncountable

Definition 3:
• A bear.
Labels: US, archaic, dialectal

Definition 4:
• 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.
Example: Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
Example: We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
Labels: engineering, metallurgy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, countable, uncountable

Definition 5:
• A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
Example: bar of chocolate
Example: bar of soap
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 6:
• A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
Example: a bar of light
Example: a bar of colour
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 7:
• A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 8:
• Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
Labels: media, publishing, typography, countable, uncountable

Definition 9:
• 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.
Labels: mathematics, sciences, countable, uncountable

Definition 10:
• A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
Labels: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, countable, uncountable

Definition 11:
• A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
Example: The street was lined with all-night bars.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: barroom, ginshop, pub, public house, tavern, alehouse, boozer, boozing ken, bousing ken, drinker, drinkery, gargle-factory, gin joint, groggery, local, nineteenth hole, pot-house, rummery, saloon, watering hole
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 12:
• The counter of such premises.
Example: Step up to the bar and order a drink.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 13:
• A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 14:
• Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
Example: a coffee bar
Example: a juice bar
Labels: broadly, countable, in-compounds, uncountable

Definition 15:
• An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
Example: a burger bar
Example: a local fish bar
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 16:
• An establishment offering cosmetic services.
Example: a nail bar
Example: a brow bar
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 17:
• An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
Example: The club has lifted its bar on women members.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: ban, prohibition
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 18:
• Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 19:
• A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
Labels: UK, countable, uncountable

Definition 20:
• The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
Labels: law, UK, countable, uncountable

Definition 21:
• The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
Example: He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
Labels: law, Philippines, US, countable, uncountable, usually, with the

Definition 22:
• Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
Example: He was called to the bar.
Labels: law, countable, metonymically, uncountable

Definition 23:
• One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
Example: I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.
Labels: business, communications, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, telecommunications, countable, uncountable

Definition 24:
• A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: measure
Labels: entertainment, lifestyle, music, countable, uncountable

Definition 25:
• One of those musical sections.
• Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
Example: That rapper there, yeah, he got bars.
Labels: dancing, entertainment, hip-hop, hobbies, lifestyle, music, sports, countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable

Definition 26:
• One of those musical sections.
• Something well-said or well-written.
Labels: entertainment, lifestyle, music, broadly, countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable

Definition 27:
• A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
Labels: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, countable, uncountable

Definition 28:
• Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
Example: to set the bar high/low
Example: to raise the bar
Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable

Definition 29:
• The crossbar.
Labels: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports, countable, uncountable

Definition 30:
• The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
Labels: backgammon, games, countable, uncountable

Definition 31:
• An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 32:
• A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially
Labels: geography, hydrology, natural-sciences, nautical, transport, countable, uncountable

Definition 33:
• A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
• A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: bank
Labels: geography, hydrology, natural-sciences, nautical, transport, countable, uncountable

Definition 34:
• One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
Labels: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics, countable, uncountable

Definition 35:
• A city gate, in some British place names.
Example: Temple Bar, London
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 36:
• A drilling or tamping rod.
Labels: business, mining, countable, uncountable

Definition 37:
• A vein or dike crossing a lode.
Labels: business, mining, countable, uncountable

Definition 38:
• A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
Labels: architecture, countable, uncountable

Definition 39:
• 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.
Labels: farriery, hobbies, horses, lifestyle, pets, sports, countable, uncountable

Definition 40:
• The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
Labels: farriery, hobbies, horses, lifestyle, pets, sports, countable, in-plural, uncountable

Definition 41:
• A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
Labels: countable, slang, uncountable

Definition 42:
• A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
Labels: countable, uncountable
Noun
Pronunciation: /bɑː/

Definition 1:
• A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, i.e. a megadyne per square centimetre.

Definition 2:
• A dyne per square centimetre, i.e. a microbar in the modern sense.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: barye, barad
Labels: obsolete
Prep
Pronunciation: /bɑː/

Definition 1:
• Except, other than, besides.
Example: He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: apart from, barring, except for, excepting, excluding, other than, save, apart, aside, aside from, bar, besides, but, but for, except, forby, modulo, not counting, outtake, save for, saving, with the exception of
Verb
Pronunciation: /bɑː/

Definition 1:
• To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
Example: Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
Labels: transitive

Definition 2:
• To prohibit.
Example: I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
Labels: transitive

Definition 3:
• To lock or bolt with a bar.
Example: to bar the door
Labels: transitive

Definition 4:
• To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bar