bar

n//baː//

stång, ribba, bom, bar, krog, pub, disk, barskåp, förbud, advokatsamfund, sandbank, bank, grund, förbjuda

  1. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

  2. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.

  3. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) 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.

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

  5. (mathematics) 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.

  6. The counter of such premises.

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

  8. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

  9. (law, metonym, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.

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

  11. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.

  12. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:

  13. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

  14. (transitive) To prohibit.

  15. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.

  16. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

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