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Bar

The term bar may refer to:

Generally

Bar (establishment), a retail establishment that serves alcoholic beverages
Bar (counter), the counter from which drinks are dispensed
Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter used as a diacritic
Walking stick (device)
Grab bar
Barbell
Handlebar, steering mechanism for bicycles and motorcycles
Rebar
An ingot or gold bar
Chocolate bar or candy bar
Dessert bar, a type of square cookie baked in a pan
A preposition meaning "wikt:except"
Bar (music), or measure, is a unit of time in Western music representing a regular grouping of beats
Bar, a name of Scandinavian origin referring to gates/gatehouses of in towns of northern England such as the gatehouses in the city walls of York, England and North Bar in Beverley
Medal bar, an addition to a military decoration earned by a subsequent act
Vertical bar symbol, |
Bar, Aramaic and Hebrew for "son", as in Bar mitzvah

Maths and science

Bar (unit), a scientific unit of pressure
A Vinculum (symbol) over a digit or digits in mathematics used to indicate a repeating decimal
Bar chart (or graph), a chart with rectangular bars of lengths used for comparing two or more values
Barred spiral galaxy, a formation of stars found in approximately half of all spiral galaxies
Bar (computer science), a metasyntactic variable used in computer science

Landforms

Bar (river morphology), generally long, narrow accumulations of sediment in a river that are visible above water level during normal flows
Gravel bar, a deposited accumulation of gravel in a river that typically can be seen above the surface at normal flows
Point bar, a bar in a river that is situated on the inside bank of a meander bend
Shoal

Law

Bar (law)
Bar examination
Bar association

Places

Bar, Montenegro, a city in the southeastern region
Bar, Ukraine, a fortress and city in the Podolia region of Ukraine that was once a part of Poland
Barrois (Bar), the territory of the counts and dukes of Bar in France
Bar (river), a tributary to the Meuse in France
Bar, Tibet, a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China
Bár, a village in Hungary
Barbizon, an artist's village in France
Wairau Bar, New Zealand

Communes of France

Bar, Corrèze, in the Corrèze département
Bar-le-Duc, in the Meuse département
Bar-sur-Aube, in the Aube département
Bar-sur-Seine, in the Aube département

People

Bar (Aramaic), a common prefix in New Testament Aramaic names
Bar Hebraeus, a Syriac Orthodox Church Father
Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
Ellen Bar, New York City Ballet soloist
Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Israeli-American physicist
David Bar-Tov, Israeli judge
Michael Bar-Zohar, Israeli historian
Micha Bar-Am, Israeli photographer

Acronyms

Barbie as Rapunzel, an animated film
Board for Anthropological Research
Bob Akin Racing, a sportscar racing team that was active until 1987
Biblical Archaeology Review
BAR domain (Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs), a protein domain
British American Racing, a Formula One racing team which was active between the years of 1999 to 2005
British Association of Removers
M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, a U.S. WWI and WWII military weapon
Buy-American restrictions, a reference to the Buy American Act
Beta Adrenergic Receptor

Codemarks

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, reporting mark "BAR"
Barbados, International Olympic Committee country code "BAR"
Harvey House Railroad Depot, in Barstow, California; station code BAR
"BAR", the ISO 639-3 code for the Austro-Bavarian language

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Bar" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Catalan, Czech, German, French, Galician, Croatian, Indonesian, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish.

Translation(s) in other languages: Belarusian (Taraškievica): Бар (неадназначнасьць), Bosnian: Bar (čvor), Bulgarian: Бар, Greek: Μπαρ, Spanish: Bar (desambiguación), Esperanto: BAR, Korean: , Italian: BAR, Georgian: ბარი, Latvian: BAR, Japanese: バール, Romanian: Bar (dezambiguizare), Russian: Бар (значения), Serbian: Бар (вишезначна одредница), Thai: บาร์, Ukrainian: Бар (значення).


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