BAR
- noun
- /bɑr/
- Archaic
- During the training exercise, the recruits learned how to operate a bar effectively.
Examples
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The veteran spoke about the reliability of the bar in various battles throughout history.
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"I thought I saw Gabe at the bar," he heard a familiar voice say.
Fiction book (1990) -
Munny crawled along the floor of the bar room, covered with blood, heading for the door.
Fiction book (1993) -
Give me Reiben on BAR, Jackson, Wade, Beasley and Caparzo.
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Paroled after serving seven months of a two-year sentence, and at a party at his uncle's bar celebrating his release...
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The soldier carried a bar to be ready for combat during World War II.
Synonyms
A gun with a long barrel you hold against your shoulder to shoot
A portable .30 caliber automatic rifle used by United States soldiers in World War I, World War II, and Korea
Idioms
Compounds
A Jewish ceremony for a boy on his thirteenth birthday marking his religious responsibilities
- Specialized
A metal bar under a car that reduces how much the car leans in turns
- Specialized
A vertical line on a music staff that shows where one group of beats ends and the next begins
- Specialized
A strong metal bar inside a vehicle that protects people if it flips over
A long strong iron bar with a flat or forked end that you use to force things apart
A horizontal bar fixed at a height for lifting your body until your chin is above it
- Offensive
A system that keeps people of different races apart and often denies rights to Black people
- Specialized
A pair of vertical lines in written music that show the end of a main section or the whole piece
- Specialized
A symbol in programming that returns true when one or both conditions are true
- Archaic
A machine that prints a whole line at once by hitting paper with a moving bar
- Archaic
A diagonal band on a shield in heraldry running from the upper right to the lower left
- Specialized
A unit of pressure measured from complete vacuum and equal to the air pressure at sea level
A table game like pool where short cues hit balls into holes while knocking wooden pegs loses points
- Specialized
A solid metal bar that sits in a horse's mouth to help the rider control the horse
- US
A protective face guard made of metal bars used by the catcher in baseball or softball
- Specialized
A straight rectangular piece of metal that attracts iron and has opposite poles at each end
- Specialized
An arch of bone or flexible tissue at the side of a fish's throat that supports the gills
A single metal pole fixed high between two posts that gymnasts swing and perform moves on
- Specialized
A metal rod in a sewing machine that holds and moves the needle up and down
- US
A long heavy metal tool with a flat chisel end for prying and a curved claw end for pulling nails
- Specialized
A long heavy tool for packing material tightly into a hole or small space
A ski lift with a T-shaped bar that pulls skiers or snowboarders uphill as they hold it
- Specialized
A metal bar under a vehicle that twists to act like a spring and absorb shocks
Surface Forms
Morphology
BAR = B + A + R
This is an uppercase military abbreviation formed from letters, and the meaning of the weapon cannot be inferred compositionally from the letters themselves.
Etymology
BAR comes from the first letters of Browning Automatic Rifle, named after the gun designer John Browning. So BAR is a short name for that specific automatic rifle used by soldiers.