• Dutch: blokkeren, versperren
• Esperanto: bloki
• Finnish: estää, tukkia, sulkea
• French: bloquer
• German: blockieren, versperren
• Interlingua: barrar
• Portuguese: barrar

• Dutch: verbieden
• Esperanto: malpermesi
• Finnish: estää, kieltää
• French: interdire
• German: verbieten
• Interlingua: prohibir
• Italian: vietare
• Portuguese: proibir

• ttbc Spanish: barrar

Preposition

1. Except, with the exception of.

   He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.

Synonyms

• apart from, barring, except, except for, excluding, other than, save

Derived terms

• bar none
• all over bar the shouting

Translations

See except

References

Heraldry 1862}}

Etymology 2

From

Faroese

Verb

Bar may refer to:

• A rod/stick, pole, or handrail made of structural steel
  • Grab bar
  • Rebar
• an ingot or gold bar
• Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter used as a diacritic
• Bar (establishment), a retail establishment which serves alcoholic beverages
  • Bar (counter), the counter from which drinks are dispensed

Math and science

• Bar (unit), a scientific unit of pressure
• Bar (computer science), a metasyntactic variable used in computer science
• A vinculum over a digit or digits in mathematics used to indicate a repeating decimal
• Gravel bar, a hydrologically sediment accumulation
• Bar chart (or graph), a chart with rectangular bars of lengths used for comparing two or more values.
• Bar (astronomy), a formation of stars found in approximately half of all spiral galaxies

Law

• Bar association, the community of persons engaged in the practice of law
  • Bar examination, a lengthy law examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction
• Personal bar, a Scots practice term for estoppel.

Other

• Bar (landform) (commonly called a "shoal"), a type of beach behind which lies a lagoon
• A gatehouse in the city walls of York, England
• Medal bar, an addition to a military decoration earned by a subsequent act
• Bar (music), a period of music
• Candy bar
• Handlebar, steering mechanism for bicycles and motorcycles
• Vertical bar symbol, |
• Bar (of Xanax)
• Barbell for weightlifting.
• Bar, Hebrew for "son", as in Bar mitzvah

Places

• Bar, Montenegro, a city in the southeastern region
• Bar, Ukraine, a fortress in the Podolia region of Ukraine that was once a part of Poland
• Barrois (Bar), the territory of the counts and dukes of Bar in France
• Bar River, a tributary to the Meuse River in France
• Bar, Tibet, a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China
• Bár, a village in Hungary
• Barbizon, an artist's village in France
• Wairau Bar, New Zealand

Communes of France

• 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

People

• Bar (Aramaic), a common prefix in New Testament Aramaic names
• Bar Hebraeus, a Syriac Orthodox Church Father
• Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
• Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress
• Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Israeli-American physicist
• David Bar-Tov, Israeli judge
• Michael Bar-Zohar, Israeli historian
• Micha Bar-Am, Israeli photographer

Acronyms

• Board for Anthropological Research
• Biblical Archaeology Review
• BAR domain (Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs), a protein domain
• Bit Aspect Ratio, a length (BPI)-to-width (TPI) ratio of a magnetic bit
• British American Racing, a Formula One racing team which was active between 1999 to 2005
• British Association of Removers
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, a U.S. WWI and WWII military weapon
• Buy-American restrictions, a reference to the Buy American Act
• Base Address Register, a type of pointer register used in Memory-mapped I/O and Port-mapped I/O

Codemarks

• Bangor and Aroostook railroad, AAR reporting mark "BAR"
• Barbados, International Olympic Committee country code "BAR"
• Harvey House Railroad Depot, in Barstow, California; station code BAR

See also

• Bär
• Barr
• Barr-
• Barre
• Barbiturate
• lookfrom bar

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