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say it: bahr
bar is a noun and verb meaning "a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter". It is pronounced /ˈbɑɹ/ — bahr. It carries 19 recorded senses.
a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
“he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar”
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”
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”
(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”
meteorology
the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
“he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey”
law
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
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”
United Kingdom
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.