Bar : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Bar	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Bar
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bar n a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" Synonym(s): barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" Synonym(s): measure, bar an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar" the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" Synonym(s): prevention, bar (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter" a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" Synonym(s): legal profession, bar, legal community a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" Synonym(s): stripe, streak, bar a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" Synonym(s): cake, bar a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War Synonym(s): Browning automatic rifle, BAR a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars" (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar" v prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" Synonym(s): bar, debar, exclude render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" Synonym(s): barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" Synonym(s): banish, relegate, bar secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" Antonym(s): unbar
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), n. [OE. barre, F. barre, fr. LL. barra, W. bar the branch of a tree, bar, baren branch, Gael. & Ir. barra bar. [root]91.] 1. A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door. Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood. --Ex. xxvi. 26. 2. An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap. 3. Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. Must I new bars to my own joy create? --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Barred} (b[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Barring}.] [ F. barrer. See {Bar}, n.] 1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate. 2. To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. --Hawthorne. 3. To except; to exclude by exception. Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. --Shak. 4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines. For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly. --Burney.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
bar /bar/ n. 1. [very common] The second {metasyntactic variable}, after {foo} and before {baz}. "Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR...." 2. Often appended to {foo} to produce {foobar}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bar 1. /bar/ The second {metasyntactic variable}, after {foo} and before {baz}. E.g. "Suppose function FOO calls functions BAR..." 2. Often appended to {foo} to produce {foobar}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-07)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bar used to denote the means by which a door is bolted (Neh. 3:3); a rock in the sea (Jonah 2:6); the shore of the sea (Job 38:10); strong fortifications and powerful impediments, etc. (Isa. 45:2; Amos 1:5); defences of a city (1 Kings 4:13). A bar for a door was of iron (Isa. 45:2), brass (Ps. 107:16), or wood (Nah. 3:13).