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Bar
A bar (also known as a saloon or a tavern or sometimes as a pub or club, referring to the actual establishment, as in pub bar or savage club etc.) is a retail business establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks. Bars often also sell snack foods such as potato chips (also known as crisps) or peanuts, for consumption on their premises. Some types of bars, such as pubs, may also serve food from a restaurant menu. The term “bar” also refers to the countertop and area where drinks are served. The term “bar” derives from the metal or wooden bar (barrier) that is often located along the length of the “bar”.Bars provide stools or chairs that are placed at tables or counters for their patrons. Bars that offer entertainment or live music are often referred to as “music bars”, “live venues”, or “nightclubs”. Types of bars range from inexpensive dive bars
to elegant places of entertainment, often accompanying restaurants for dining.
Many bars operate a discount period, designated a “happy hour” or discount of the day to encourage off-peak-time patronage. Bars that fill to capacity sometimes implement a cover charge or a minimum drink-purchase requirement during their peak hours. Bars may have bouncers to ensure that patrons are of legal age, to eject drunk or belligerent patrons, and to collect cover charges. Such bars often feature entertainment, which may be a live band, vocalist, comedian, or disc jockey playing recorded music.
Patrons may sit or stand at the counter and be served by the bartender. Depending on the size of a bar and its approach, alcohol may be served at the bar by bartenders, at tables by servers, or by a combination of the two. The “back bar” is a set of shelves of glasses and bottles behind the counter. In some establishments, the back bar is elaborately decorated with woodwork, etched glass, mirrors, and lights.
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Bar (noun)
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
“The window was protected by steel bars.”
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Bar (noun)
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, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
“Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.”
“We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.”
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Bar (noun)
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
“bar of chocolate”
“bar of soap”
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Bar (noun)
A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
“a bar of light”
“a bar of colour”
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Bar (noun)
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
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Bar (noun)
Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨{{!}}⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly inclusive of oblique marks such as the slash.
“pipe|strikethrough”
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Bar (noun)
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.
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Bar (noun)
A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
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Bar (noun)
A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
“barroom|ginshop|pub|q3=British|public house|tavern|Thesaurus:pub”
“The street was lined with all-night bars.”
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Bar (noun)
The counter of such a premises.
“Step up to the bar and order a drink.”
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Bar (noun)
A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
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Bar (noun)
, juice bar etc.}} A premises or counter serving any type of beverage.
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Bar (noun)
An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
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Bar (noun)
An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
“a burger bar”
“a local fish bar”
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Bar (noun)
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
“ban|prohibition”
“The club has lifted its bar on women members.”
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Bar (noun)
}} A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
“Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.”
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Bar (noun)
A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
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Bar (noun)
The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
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Bar (noun)
“the Bar” or “the bar” The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
“He’s studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he’s failed it twice before.”
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Bar (noun)
A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
“He was called to the bar, he became a barrister.”
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Bar (noun)
A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.
“I don’t have any bars in the middle of this desert.”
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Bar (noun)
A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
“measure”
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Bar (noun)
One of those musical sections.
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Bar (noun)
Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
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Bar (noun)
The crossbar.
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Bar (noun)
An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
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Bar (noun)
One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
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Bar (noun)
A city gate, in some British place names.
“Potter’s Bar”
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Bar (noun)
A drilling or tamping rod.
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Bar (noun)
A vein or dike crossing a lode.
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Bar (noun)
A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
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Bar (noun)
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.
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Bar (noun)
The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
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Bar (noun)
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
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Bar (verb)
To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
“Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.”
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Bar (verb)
To prohibit.
“I couldn’t get into the nightclub because I had been barred.”
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Bar (verb)
To lock or bolt with a bar.
“bar the door”
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Bar (verb)
To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
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Bar (preposition)
Except, other than, besides.
“He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.”
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Bar (preposition)
Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
“Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it’s 10/1 bar.”
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Rod (noun)
A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
“The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.”
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Rod (noun)
A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
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Rod (noun)
A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
“When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.”
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Rod (noun)
A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
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Rod (noun)
An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
“The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.”
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Rod (noun)
A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
“I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.”
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Rod (noun)
A feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
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Rod (noun)
An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer’s rod, surveyor’s rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern engineer’s or surveyor’s rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor’s rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5½ yards.
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Rod (noun)
A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
“The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.”
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Rod (noun)
A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a drive-shaft.
“The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.”
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Rod (noun)
Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
“The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.”
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Rod (noun)
Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
“He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.”
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Rod (noun)
A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
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Rod (noun)
A pistol; a gun.
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Rod (noun)
A penis.
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Rod (noun)
A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
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Rod (noun)
A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
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Rod (noun)
A Cuisenaire rod.
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Rod (noun)
A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
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Rod (verb)
To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
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Rod (verb)
To penetrate sexually.
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Rod (verb)
To hot rod.
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Bar (noun)
a long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon
“bars on the windows”
“an iron bar”
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Bar (noun)
an amount of food or another substance formed into a narrow block
“a bar of chocolate”
“gold bars”
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Bar (noun)
a band of colour or light
“bars of sunlight shafting through the windows”
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Bar (noun)
the heating element of an electric fire.
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Bar (noun)
the crossbar of a goal
“Clark’s shot hit the bar”
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Bar (noun)
a metal strip below the clasp of a medal, awarded as an additional distinction
“he was awarded a second bar to his DSO”
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Bar (noun)
a sandbank or shoal at the mouth of a harbour or an estuary
“the bar to the estuary of the River Eske”
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Bar (noun)
a charge in the form of a narrow horizontal stripe across the shield.
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Bar (noun)
a counter in a pub, restaurant, or cafe across which drinks or refreshments are served
“standing at the bar”
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Bar (noun)
a room in a pub, restaurant, or hotel in which alcohol is served
“the oak-panelled bar of the Lion”
“bar stools”
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Bar (noun)
an establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served
“a small friendly bar open all day”
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Bar (noun)
a small shop, stall, or area in a department store that serves refreshments or provides a specified service
“a sandwich bar”
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Bar (noun)
a barrier or restriction to an action or advance
“political differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship”
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Bar (noun)
a plea suspending an action or claim in a lawsuit.
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Bar (noun)
any of the short sections or measures, typically of equal time value, into which a piece of music is divided, shown on a score by vertical lines across the stave
“the opening bars of the first hymn”
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Bar (noun)
a partition in a court room, now usually notional, beyond which most people may not pass and at which an accused person stands
“the prisoner at the bar”
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Bar (noun)
a rail marking the end of each chamber in the Houses of Parliament
“he had to appear at the Bar of the House for a reprimand by the Speaker”
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Bar (noun)
the profession of barrister
“his dismissal from the Singapore Bar”
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Bar (noun)
barristers collectively.
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Bar (noun)
lawyers collectively.
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Bar (noun)
a particular court of law.
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Bar (noun)
a unit of pressure equivalent to a hundred thousand newtons per square metre or approximately one atmosphere.
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Bar (verb)
fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars
“she bolted and barred the door”
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Bar (verb)
prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something or from going somewhere
“journalists had been barred from covering the elections”
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Bar (verb)
forbid someone from undertaking (an activity)
“the job she loved had been barred to her”
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Bar (verb)
exclude (something) from consideration
“nothing is barred in the crime novel”
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Bar (verb)
prevent or delay (an action) by objection.
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Bar (verb)
mark (something) with bars or stripes
“his face was barred with light”
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Bar (preposition)
except for
“his kids were all gone now, bar one”
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Bar (preposition)
except the horses indicated (used when stating the odds).