bar
Betekenis
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- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- 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.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a 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.
- Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- 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.
- A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- One of those musical sections.
- A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- The crossbar.
- 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 ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially
- A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- A drilling or tamping rod.
- A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- 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.
- The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (slang) A complimentary reference to a rapper's lyrics, especially when good.
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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/bɑː/
Etymologie
From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.
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