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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
  • A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
  • A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
  • A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
  • An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
  • An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
  • A similar device or simply a closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room.
  • A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
  • A unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals.
  • backgammon The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
  • whimsical|derived from fubar A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
  • heraldiccharge One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
  • loosely|"the Bar" The legal profession of lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
  • "the Bar" A collective term for lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
  • "the Bar" Short for the Bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
  • 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.
  • music A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
  • music One of those musical sections.
  • 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).
  • soccer The crossbar
  • sports A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
  • The counter of such a premises
  • legal The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay

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Preposition:

  • Except, with the exception of.

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Proper noun:

  • a city in Montenegro

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Verb:

  • transitive To lock or bolt with a bar.
  • transitive To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
  • transitive To prohibit.

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