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Bar
/bɑː/
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
📖 Definitions of "Bar"
- 1
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
"The window was protected by steel bars."
- 2
A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1/4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
"Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money."
- 3
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
"bar of chocolate"
- 4
A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
"a bar of colour"
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