bar
- noun
- /bɑr/
- I carefully placed the heavy bar of steel on the workbench.
- a bar of soap
- candy bar
- iron bar
They're the protein bars looking like a snack.
- They're the protein bars looking like a snack.
- Another face vibrator, the gold bar thing, It is awesome.
- So we sell physical gold and silver bars and coins.
- I got a black bar plug for my office.
Examples
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Across the doorway, there is a metal bar which my uncle leans on with both hands.
Fiction book (1991) -
I got a black bar plug for my office.
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Who put that bar there?
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Now that mouse will push that bar forever.
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All right, Then insert the bar and click it into place.
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What's the angle of the bar after it's moved?
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I went and got you... ...a candy bar.
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You'll be issued one bar of soap, two rolls of toilet paper per month.
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In the flexed-arm hang test, children held their chin above the bar using an underhand grip.
Academic text (2012) -
When iron filings are put near a simple bar magnet on Earth, the filings show a pattern.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
A sweet made of chocolate or sugar that you eat as a snack
A solid block of material shaped for easy use, like soap or wax
A solid sweet made from cocoa, shaped like a bar to eat as a snack
A rectangular milk chocolate bar made by the Hershey company
A small solid piece that you use to wash your body or hands
A sweet snack made from peanuts and syrup, shaped like a bar
A sweet snack made from carob powder that people eat like chocolate
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
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bar for a long rod comes from an old word for a 'bar' or 'beam', the same idea behind the word barrier, so think of a straight piece of wood or metal that can block or support something.