For Bar we have terms and definitions in 28 topics. The topics are Backgammon, Blackjack, Boating, Charles Dickens, Dream, Drugs, Explosives, Finance, Glass, Heraldry, Hunting, Import Cars, Kiteboard, Law, Legislative Assembly, Motorcross, Nautical, Newspaper Design, Oceanography, Pavement, Personal Injury Law, Physical Geography, Shipping, Tap Dance, Technology, Vietnam War, Weightlifting and World War II Acronyms.

Bar (Backgammon)

The raised ridge down the center of a backgammon board dividing the home board from the outer board. Checkers are placed on the bar after they have been hit.

Bar (Blackjack)

(v). To ban a player from playing in a casino.

Bar (Boating)

A shoal of sand or mud on which you can run aground.

Bar (Charles Dickens)

The barristers of England; to be "called to the bar" meant that one had become eligible to practice as a barrister.

Bar (Dream)

To dream of tending a bar, denotes that you will resort to some questionable mode of advancement.
Seeing a bar, denotes activity in communities, quick uplifting of fortunes, and the consummation of illicit desires.

Bar (Drugs)

Marijuana

Bar (Explosives)

Derived from the Greek word “heavy”. A bar is a measure of pressure, one bar is equal to 0.9869 atmospheres or 105 pascals.
KBar
Kilobar = 1,000 Bars or 103 Bars
MBar
Megabar = 1,000,000 Bars or 106 Bars

Bar (Finance)

Slang for one million dollars.

Bar (Glass)

A single piece of glass formed by fusing several canes or rods. A bar can be cut into numerous slices, all with the same design, to be used as inlays or appliqués, or in making mosaic glass.

Bar (Heraldry)

An ordinary which crosses the shield horizontally. It differs from a fesse in that it occupies only one-fifth of the field. There is room for but four bars on a shield.

Bar (Hunting)

An offshore ridge or mound of sand, GRAVEL, or other unconsolidated material which is submerged (at least at high tide), especially at the mouth of a river or estuary, or lying parallel to, and a short distance from, the beach.

Bar (Import Cars)

An acronym for the Bureau of Automotive Repair.

Bar (Kiteboard)

The kite control device you use to steer the kite in the wind window.

Bar (Law)

1. Historically, the partition separating the general public from the space occupied by the judges, lawyers, and other participants in a trial. 2. More commonly, the term means the who body of lawyers.

Bar (Legislative Assembly)

The bar is the railing along the sides of the House and Senate chambers which separates the chamber floor (see Floor) and the side aisle. Only legislators and certain legislative staff may be within the bar; only invited guests and staff may occupy the side aisles. The press is allowed both within the bar (in the press area) and in the side aisles.

Bar (Motorcross)

Hop

Bar (Nautical)

Large mass of sand or earth, formed by the surge of the sea. They are mostly found at the entrances of great rivers or havens, and often render navigation extremely dangerous, but confer tranquility once inside. See also: Touch and go, grounding. Alfred Lord Tenneyson's poem 'Crossing the bar' an allegory for death.

Bar (Newspaper Design)

A thick rule. Often used for decoration, or to contain type for subheads or standing heads.

Bar (Oceanography)

Bars are old spits that have grown across a bay and are linking two headlands together.

Bar (Pavement)

A member used to reinforce concrete, usually made of steel.

Bar (Personal Injury Law)

1. Historically, the partition separating the general public from the space occupied by the judges, lawyers, and other participants in a trial. 2. More commonly, the term means the whole body of lawyers.

Bar (Physical Geography)

(1) Coarse grained deposit of sediment from a stream or ocean currents.
(2) A unit measurements for quantifying force. Equivalent to 1,000,000 dynes per square centimeter.

Bar (Shipping)

Sand bank that forms at the mouths of rivers and that often limits the type of ships that are able to reach up-river destinations.

Bar (Tap Dance)

In common usage, a measure of music.
Barrel Roll,

Bar (Technology)

See FooBar

Bar (Vietnam War)

Browning automatic rifle. A .30-caliber magazine-fed automatic rifle used by U.S. troops during World War II and Korea.

Bar (Weightlifting)

Short for barbell.

Bar (World War II Acronyms)

Browning Automatic Rifle

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