Bar vs. Rod

Grammarly Online - Best Grammar and Plagiarism Checker for Students, Teachers

Barnoun

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

Barnoun

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.

Barnoun

A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

Barnoun

A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.

Barnoun

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

Barnoun

(typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨{{!}}⟩, fraction bar (as in 1 2 ), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly inclusive of oblique marks such as the slash.

Barnoun

(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.

Barnoun

(physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).

Barnoun

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

Barnoun

The counter of such a premises.

Barnoun

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

Barnoun

, juice bar etc.}} A premises or counter serving any type of beverage.

Barnoun

An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

Barnoun

An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.

Barnoun

An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

Barnoun

Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.

Barnoun

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

Barnoun

A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.

Barnoun

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

Barnoun

"the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.

Barnoun

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

Barnoun

(telecommunications) A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.

Barnoun

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

Barnoun

(music) One of those musical sections.

Barnoun

(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault

Barnoun

(metaphorical) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.

Barnoun

The crossbar.

Barnoun

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

Barnoun

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

Barnoun

A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.

Barnoun

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. (FM 55-501).

Barnoun

(heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.

Barnoun

A city gate, in some British place names.

Barnoun

(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.

Barnoun

(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.

Barnoun

(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

Barnoun

(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.

Barnoun

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

Barnoun

A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Barverb

(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

Barverb

(transitive) To prohibit.

Barverb

(transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.

Barverb

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

Barpreposition

Except, other than, besides.

Barpreposition

(horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.

Barnoun

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.

Barnoun

An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.

Barnoun

Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.

Barnoun

A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

Barnoun

Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.

Barnoun

The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.

Barnoun

Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.

Barnoun

A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

Barnoun

An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

Barnoun

A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.

Barnoun

A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

Barnoun

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

Barnoun

A drilling or tamping rod.

Barnoun

A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

Barverb

To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.

Barverb

To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; - sometimes with up.

Barverb

To except; to exclude by exception.

Barverb

To cross with one or more stripes or lines.

Barnoun

a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter;

Barnoun

a counter where you can obtain food or drink;

Barnoun

a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon;

Barnoun

musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;

Barnoun

an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal;

Barnoun

the act of preventing;

Barnoun

(meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter;

Barnoun

a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore;

Barnoun

the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction;

Barnoun

a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax);

Barnoun

a portable .30 caliber magazine-fed automatic rifle operated by gas pressure; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War

Barnoun

a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises

Barnoun

a heating element in an electric fire;

Barnoun

(law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried;

Barverb

prevent from entering; keep out;

Barverb

render unsuitable for passage;

Barverb

expel, as if by official decree;

Barverb

secure with, or as if with, bars;

Barnoun

a long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon

Barnoun

an amount of food or another substance formed into a narrow block

Barnoun

a band of colour or light

Barnoun

the heating element of an electric fire.

Barnoun

the crossbar of a goal

Barnoun

a metal strip below the clasp of a medal, awarded as an additional distinction

Barnoun

a sandbank or shoal at the mouth of a harbour or an estuary

Barnoun

a charge in the form of a narrow horizontal stripe across the shield.

Barnoun

a counter in a pub, restaurant, or cafe across which drinks or refreshments are served

Barnoun

a room in a pub, restaurant, or hotel in which alcohol is served

Barnoun

an establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served

Barnoun

a small shop, stall, or area in a department store that serves refreshments or provides a specified service

Barnoun

a barrier or restriction to an action or advance

Barnoun

a plea suspending an action or claim in a lawsuit.

Barnoun

any of the short sections or measures, typically of equal time value, into which a piece of music is divided, shown on a score by vertical lines across the stave

Barnoun

a partition in a court room, now usually notional, beyond which most people may not pass and at which an accused person stands

Barnoun

a rail marking the end of each chamber in the Houses of Parliament

Barnoun

the profession of barrister

Barnoun

barristers collectively.

Barnoun

lawyers collectively.

Barnoun

a particular court of law.

Barnoun

a unit of pressure equivalent to a hundred thousand newtons per square metre or approximately one atmosphere.

Barverb

fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars

Barverb

prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something or from going somewhere

Barverb

forbid someone from undertaking (an activity)

Barverb

exclude (something) from consideration

Barverb

prevent or delay (an action) by objection.

Barverb

mark (something) with bars or stripes

Barpreposition

except for

Barpreposition

except the horses indicated (used when stating the odds).

Rodnoun

A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.

Rodnoun

A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.

Rodnoun

(fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.

Rodnoun

A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.

Rodnoun

An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.

Rodnoun

A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.

Rodnoun

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).

Rodnoun

An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5½ yards.

Rodnoun

(archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.

Rodnoun

A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a drive-shaft.

Rodnoun

(anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.

Rodnoun

(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.

Rodnoun

(chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.

Rodnoun

(slang) A pistol; a gun.

Rodnoun

A penis.

Rodnoun

(slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.

Rodnoun

(ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.

Rodnoun

(mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.

Rodnoun

(rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.

Rodverb

(construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.

Rodverb

To penetrate sexually.

Rodverb

(slang) To hot rod.

Rodnoun

A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).