bar
/bɑɹ/
Frequency: 4.94 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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).
Countable; Uncountable
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Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bɑɹ/
- British English: /bɑː/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Transitive verb
- Archaic