bar
- noun
- /bɑr/
- Specialized
- To save your work, click the save button located on the toolbar near the status bar.
- a menu bar
- a top bar
- a slide bar
Let's see if we can toggle the bar one more time.
- Let's see if we can toggle the bar one more time.
Examples
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How far along is the progress bar?
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The results are shown as a bar graph on the user's display.
Academic text (2001) -
Notice the vertical bar on the right side of the Document Size section.
Academic text (2008) -
Examples include browser search bars, Facebook apps, and updated staff intranets.
Academic text (2012) -
For example, students use potential energy graphs, equations, and bar charts to express the energy balance in chemical reactions.
Academic text (2012) -
The menu bar at the top of the application allows users to access different features quickly.
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If you want to customize your workspace, you can drag and drop icons onto the navigation bar.
Synonyms
A row of buttons or icons on a computer screen that gives quick access to tools
A bar on the computer screen that shows open programs and lets you switch between them
A bar at the top of a window that shows the document or program name
A short message that appears on the screen to tell you something and offer a quick action like undo
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
Etymology
Bar for a strip on a screen comes from the same image of a long narrow piece, so a menu bar or status bar is a strip that holds buttons or information.