Bar

Bar may mean:

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• A pole or stick, often made of wood or metal, sometimes used to mark a height, such as in high jump, or as a handrail, such as in ballet (where the word is usually spelled "barre") or Dance Dance Revolution, or as an obstacle.
• A quantity of a substance supplied as a bar-shaped piece: a bar of soap; a candy bar.
• A shape in which metal is traded, usually prior to further working: bar stock
• A law or rule preventing something.
• Bar (establishment), a retail establishment which serves alcoholic beverages (in Britain, a pub; in continental Europe, a café; in Italy, the term Bar is largely used, and is generally equivalent to caffé);
• Bar (counter), the counter from which drinks are dispensed in a Bar (establishment).
• Bar (unit), a scientific unit of pressure, roughly the atmosphere pressure on Earth at sea level. A millibar is 0.001 bar.
• Bar (music), a period of music.
• Bar association, the community of persons engaged in the practice of law.
• Bar (landform), a type of beach behind which lies a lagoon.
• Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter used as a diacritic.
• Toolbar, a visual menu with various icons.
• A macron over a digit or digits in mathematics used to indicated a repeating decimal.
• The second metasyntactic variable, after foo.
• Bar (Aramaic), a common prefix in New Testament Aramaic names, meaning son of and often indicating that the person is also known by another name.
• Bar (heraldry), a fess-like charge sometimes stated to be a diminutive of the fess.

Places:

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• Bar, Serbia and Montenegro, a large city in southeastern Montenegro.
• Bar, Ukraine, a fortress in the Podolia region of Ukraine that was once a part of Poland.
• Bar is a former county and duchy of France; see counts and dukes of Bar.
• Bar River, a tributary to the Meuse River in France.

Communes of France:

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• 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.

BAR may stand for:

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• British American Racing, a Formula One racing team.
• Browning Automatic Rifle, a U.S. WWI and WWII military weapon.
• Buy-American restrictions, a reference to the Buy American Act.

BAR may also represent:

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• The AAR reporting mark for the Bangor and Aroostook railroad.

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