bar
- noun
- /bɑr/
- The shutters were closed, and bars of sunlight striped the carpet.
- striped bars
- solid bars
- black bars
So the symbol we use is an X with a bar.
- So the symbol we use is an X with a bar.
Examples
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And the green bar is healthy and red is infected.
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The zebra has striking black and white bars that help it blend into the grasslands.
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It's got this, like, red bar on this side, but it's got a blue bar on this side.
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The light reflected from the library window through the bars onto the floor of the cell in stripes.
Fiction book (1992) -
You can see it has these three vertical bars of light, just like Mustangs have had for years.
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As I walked up to the front door, I noticed the ornate bars that covered the windows.
Fiction book (1992) -
Starlings fluttered and roosted on the power lines stretched like gray bars over the house.
Fiction book (1990) -
Hubble's tuning fork distinguishes "normal" spiral galaxies from spirals that show a bar across the center.
Academic text (2005) -
The design features colorful bars in various patterns that contrast with the background.
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The artist painted a series of vertical bars in bright colors to create a vibrant mural.
Synonyms
A long narrow line of color on clothes, flags, or animals
A strip of different color or material used as decoration
A long thin line of color or light on something
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
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Etymology
Bar for a stripe means a narrow band, just like a long thin 'bar', so the bars on a tiger or a flag are simply long, colored bands.