Bar vs. Rod

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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.”

  • 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.”

  • Bar (noun)

    A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

    “bar of chocolate”

    “bar of soap”

  • Bar (noun)

    A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.

    “a bar of light”

    “a bar of colour”

  • Bar (noun)

    A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.

  • 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”

  • 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.

  • Bar (noun)

    A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).

  • 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.”

  • Bar (noun)

    The counter of such a premises.

    “Step up to the bar and order a drink.”

  • Bar (noun)

    A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.

  • Bar (noun)

    , juice bar etc.}} A premises or counter serving any type of beverage.

  • Bar (noun)

    An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

  • Bar (noun)

    An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.

    “a burger bar”

    “a local fish bar”

  • Bar (noun)

    An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

    “ban|prohibition”

    “The club has lifted its bar on women members.”

  • 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.”

  • Bar (noun)

    A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.

  • Bar (noun)

    The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay

  • 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.”

  • 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.”

  • 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.”

  • Bar (noun)

    A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.

    “measure”

  • Bar (noun)

    One of those musical sections.

  • Bar (noun)

    Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.

  • Bar (noun)

    The crossbar.

  • Bar (noun)

    An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act

  • Bar (noun)

    One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.

  • Bar (noun)

    A city gate, in some British place names.

    “Potter’s Bar”

  • Bar (noun)

    A drilling or tamping rod.

  • Bar (noun)

    A vein or dike crossing a lode.

  • Bar (noun)

    A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

  • 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.

  • Bar (noun)

    The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

  • Bar (noun)

    A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

  • Bar (verb)

    To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

    “Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.”

  • Bar (verb)

    To prohibit.

    “I couldn’t get into the nightclub because I had been barred.”

  • Bar (verb)

    To lock or bolt with a bar.

    “bar the door”

  • Bar (verb)

    To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

  • Bar (preposition)

    Except, other than, besides.

    “He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.”

  • 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.”

  • 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.”

  • Rod (noun)

    A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • 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.”

  • Rod (noun)

    A feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • 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.”

  • 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.”

  • Rod (noun)

    Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.

    “He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.”

  • 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.

  • Rod (noun)

    A pistol; a gun.

  • Rod (noun)

    A penis.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Rod (noun)

    A Cuisenaire rod.

  • Rod (noun)

    A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.

  • Rod (verb)

    To reinforce concrete with metal rods.

  • Rod (verb)

    To penetrate sexually.

  • Rod (verb)

    To hot rod.

Wiktionary
  • 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”

  • Bar (noun)

    an amount of food or another substance formed into a narrow block

    “a bar of chocolate”

    “gold bars”

  • Bar (noun)

    a band of colour or light

    “bars of sunlight shafting through the windows”

  • Bar (noun)

    the heating element of an electric fire.

  • Bar (noun)

    the crossbar of a goal

    “Clark’s shot hit the bar”

  • 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”

  • Bar (noun)

    a sandbank or shoal at the mouth of a harbour or an estuary

    “the bar to the estuary of the River Eske”

  • Bar (noun)

    a charge in the form of a narrow horizontal stripe across the shield.

  • Bar (noun)

    a counter in a pub, restaurant, or cafe across which drinks or refreshments are served

    “standing at the bar”

  • Bar (noun)

    a room in a pub, restaurant, or hotel in which alcohol is served

    “the oak-panelled bar of the Lion”

    “bar stools”

  • Bar (noun)

    an establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served

    “a small friendly bar open all day”

  • Bar (noun)

    a small shop, stall, or area in a department store that serves refreshments or provides a specified service

    “a sandwich bar”

  • Bar (noun)

    a barrier or restriction to an action or advance

    “political differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship”

  • Bar (noun)

    a plea suspending an action or claim in a lawsuit.

  • 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”

  • 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”

  • 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”

  • Bar (noun)

    the profession of barrister

    “his dismissal from the Singapore Bar”

  • Bar (noun)

    barristers collectively.

  • Bar (noun)

    lawyers collectively.

  • Bar (noun)

    a particular court of law.

  • Bar (noun)

    a unit of pressure equivalent to a hundred thousand newtons per square metre or approximately one atmosphere.

  • Bar (verb)

    fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars

    “she bolted and barred the door”

  • Bar (verb)

    prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something or from going somewhere

    “journalists had been barred from covering the elections”

  • Bar (verb)

    forbid someone from undertaking (an activity)

    “the job she loved had been barred to her”

  • Bar (verb)

    exclude (something) from consideration

    “nothing is barred in the crime novel”

  • Bar (verb)

    prevent or delay (an action) by objection.

  • Bar (verb)

    mark (something) with bars or stripes

    “his face was barred with light”

  • Bar (preposition)

    except for

    “his kids were all gone now, bar one”

  • Bar (preposition)

    except the horses indicated (used when stating the odds).

Oxford Dictionary

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