bar
Noun
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is a type of: room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceilingsubtypes:
- barrelhouse, honky-tonk - a cheap drinking and dancing establishment
- cocktail lounge - a barroom in a hotel or restaurant where cocktails are served
- sawdust saloon - a saloon whose floor is covered with sawdust
- speakeasy - (during prohibition) an illegal barroom
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is a type of: counter - table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transactedsubtypes:
- cash bar - a counter at a large party where you can purchase drinks by the glass
- oyster bar - a bar (as in a restaurant) that specializes in oysters prepared in different ways
- salad bar - a bar where diners can assemble a salad to their own taste
- buffet, snack bar, snack counter - usually inexpensive bar
- soda fountain - a counter where ice cream and sodas and sundaes are prepared and served
- sushi bar - a bar where sushi is served
- wet bar - a bar for mixing drinks that has a sink with running water
- wine bar - a bar that serves only wine
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is a type of: implement - instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an endsubtypes:
- belaying pin - a wood or metal bar to which a rope can be secured (as on a ship or in mountain climbing)
- bolt, deadbolt - the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
- bolt - a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- carpenter's level - a straight bar of light metal with a spirit level in it
- chinning bar - a horizontal bar on which you can chin yourself
- core - a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
- crossbar - a horizontal bar that goes across something
- drawbar - a strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled
- fret - a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- grab bar - a bar attached parallel to a wall to provide a handgrip for steadying yourself
- handlebar - the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle
- handspike - a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever
- heaver - a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope)
- lever - a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
- rail - a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- rotor - the revolving bar of a distributor
- shackle - a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar
- slice bar - iron bar used to loosen and rake clinkers out of furnaces
- anti-sway bar, stabilizer bar - a rigid metal bar between the front suspensions and between the rear suspensions of cars and trucks; serves to stabilize the chassis
- towel bar, towel rail - a horizontal bar a few inches from a wall for holding towels
- rail, rails, runway, track - a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
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is a type of: musical notation - (music) notation used by musicianssame as: measure
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is a type of: impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor - any structure that makes progress difficultis a part of: goal - game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
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subtypes:
- averting - the act of preventing something from occurring
- debarment - the act of prevention by legal means
- disqualification - the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified
- interception - the act of intercepting; preventing something from proceeding or arriving
- non-proliferation, nonproliferation - the prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons)
- forestalling, obviation, preclusion - the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively
- prophylaxis - the prevention of disease
- save - (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- crushing, quelling, stifling, suppression - forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
same as: prevention -
referred to in: meteorology - the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather)is a type of: pressure unit - a unit measuring force per unit areahas:
- millibar - a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar
- bar absolute, barye, microbar - the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter
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is a type of:
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referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authorityis a type of: profession - the body of people in a learned occupationsame as: legal community, legal profession
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is a type of: marking - a pattern of marks
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is a type of: block - a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)subtypes: tablet - a small flat compressed cake of some substancesame as: cake
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same as: browning automatic rifle
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is a type of: support - any device that bears the weight of another thingis a part of:
- high bar, horizontal bar - gymnastic apparatus consisting of a bar supported in a horizontal position by uprights at both ends
- bars, parallel bars - gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights
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domain region: britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdomis a type of: heating element - the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat
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referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
Verb
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subtypes: spike - stand in the way of
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