Bar

Quick meaning: Bar is a noun meaning A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
2. A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
3. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
4. (typography) 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.
5. (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.
6. (physics) 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).
7. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) 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 Sentences

a bar of light

a bar of colour

bar of chocolate

The window was protected by steel bars.

Word Forms

• bars
• barring
• barred

Synonyms for bar

Depending on context, synonyms include block, hinder, obstruct, ban, interdict, prohibit.

Antonyms for bar

Common opposites include unbar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include block, barricade, ginmill, blockade, saloon, taproom.

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