bar
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5.6
- noun
- /bɑr/
- Specialized
:
compás
- Students were now ready to write four bars using correct note values.
- bar lines
- 4-bar
- four bars
I had my version of playing those rock'n'roll bars that you played.
- I had my version of playing those rock'n'roll bars that you played.
- And I'm like, no, that's how I count bars.
- Turnarounds are the last two bars of any standard of Blues of rhythm changes of many standards.
Examples
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As the child begins to audiate music produced by the three bars, additional bars can be added.
Academic text (1991) -
As they pulled into the garage, they finished the last bars of "You Send Me."
Fiction book (1992) -
Let's take it back to the last 2 bars of the blues.
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Whistle the first bars of "Rule, Britannia".
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Then he whistled a bar or so of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Fiction book (1992) -
Three-four, changes to four-four on fourth bar and back to three-four on bar five, if you can count that high.
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Leaking tinnily through the headset, we hear the opening bars of "Comin' Up Around the Bend."
Fiction book (1998) -
The composer created a series of forty-four graded eight-bar variations on the cueca
Academic text (1996) -
If you examine the sketchbooks he used, 29 bars of Mozart's finale appear, copied out by Beethoven.
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In his music class, he learned to count the beats in each bar as they practiced the rhythm.
Synonyms
11
5.3
A segment of music with a set number of beats
Idioms
Compounds
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7.3
A Jewish ceremony for a boy on his thirteenth birthday marking his religious responsibilities
- Specialized
1
6.0
A metal bar under a car that reduces how much the car leans in turns
- Specialized
1
3.4
A vertical line on a music staff that shows where one group of beats ends and the next begins
- Specialized
1
3.5
A strong metal bar inside a vehicle that protects people if it flips over
1
6.5
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
Etymology
Bar in music means a section marked off by a vertical 'bar' line, like a small fence that holds a set number of beats, so each bar groups the music's rhythm.