Bar

A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.

A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.

A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. (For example, turning A into Ⱥ.).

A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.

The counter of such a premises.

A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.

In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc., a premises or counter serving non-alcoholic drinks.

An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.

The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.

Short for the Bar exam, the legal licensing exam.

A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.

A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.

One of those musical sections.

A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault.

The crossbar.

The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.

An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.

A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.

A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation.

One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.

An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.

A city gate in UK places names, such as 'Potters Bar.'.

A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals.

To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

To prohibit.

To lock or bolt with a bar.

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

Except, with the exception of.

Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.