bar

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv. 介词 prep.
/bɑː/    /bɑɹ/|[bɑɹ]|[bɑ˞]|/bäː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. countable,uncountable
    — The window was protected by steel bars.
  2. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
  3. 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. countable,uncountable
    — Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
  4. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. countable,uncountable
    — bar of chocolate
  5. A broad shaft, band, or stripe. countable,uncountable
    — a bar of light
  6. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart. countable,uncountable
  7. Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash. countable,uncountable
  8. 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. countable,uncountable
  9. A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle). countable,uncountable
  10. A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house. countable,uncountable
    — The street was lined with all-night bars.
  11. The counter of such premises. countable,uncountable
    — Step up to the bar and order a drink.
  12. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room. countable,uncountable
  13. Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage. broadly,countable,in-compounds,uncountable
    — a coffee bar
  14. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises. countable,uncountable
    — a burger bar
  15. An establishment offering cosmetic services. countable,uncountable
    — a nail bar
  16. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity. countable,uncountable
    — The club has lifted its bar on women members.
  17. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. countable,uncountable
    — Muſt I new bars to my own joy create?
  18. A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo. countable,derived,uncountable
    — Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux.
  19. A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass. UK,countable,uncountable
  20. The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay. UK,countable,uncountable
  21. The bar exam, the legal licensing exam. Philippines,US,countable,uncountable,usually
    — He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
  22. Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others. countable,metonymically,uncountable
    — He was called to the bar.
    He became a barrister.
  23. One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining. countable,uncountable
    — I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.
  24. A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value. countable,uncountable
  25. One of those musical sections.; Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully. countable,in-plural,slang,uncountable
    — That rapper there, yeah, he got bars.
  26. One of those musical sections.; Something well-said or well-written. broadly,countable,in-plural,slang,uncountable
    — His musical journey, and this is a quote, is “a constant push and pull between self awareness and delusion”. That’s bars right there to be honest.
  27. A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault. countable,uncountable
  28. Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — to set the bar high/low
  29. The crossbar. countable,uncountable
    — Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar.
  30. The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit. countable,uncountable
  31. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act. countable,uncountable
  32. A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially countable,uncountable
  33. A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:; A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501). countable,uncountable
    — Travellers change at Batoum into a steamer which performs the service between that port and Poti, and which has a less draught of water to enable it to cross the bar of the river Rion.
  34. One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess. countable,uncountable
    — On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways.
  35. A city gate, in some British place names. countable,uncountable
    — Temple Bar, London
  36. A drilling or tamping rod. countable,uncountable
  37. A vein or dike crossing a lode. countable,uncountable
  38. A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. countable,uncountable
  39. 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. countable,uncountable
  40. The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed. countable,in-plural,uncountable
  41. A measure of drugs, typically one ounce. countable,slang,uncountable
    — Tell Sick Boy tae gie us a bell if ye see um. The bastard owes us twenty fuckin bar.
  42. A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). transitive
    — Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
  2. To prohibit. transitive
    — I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
  3. To lock or bolt with a bar. transitive
    — to bar the door
  4. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
    — I lived in a hut in the yard. To be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.
副词 adv.
  1. Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name. not-comparable
    — Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.
介词 prep.
  1. Except, other than, besides.
    — He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.

词形变化

bars plural bars present,singular,third-person barring participle,present barred participle,past barred past bars plural

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.
词源 2
From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer, from Medieval Latin barrare (“to bar”), from the noun. Cognate to Occitan barrar, Spanish barrar, Portuguese barrar.
Preposition properly imperative of the verb. Compare barring.
词源 3
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.
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