Bar

Bar or BAR can refer to several things:

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 law or rule preventing something.
Bar (establishment) - a retail establishment which serves alcoholic beverages (in Britain, a pub; in continental Europe, a caf�).
- Bar (counter) - the counter from which drinks are dispensed in a Bar (establishment).
Bar (heraldry) - a fesslike charge sometimes stated to be a diminutive of the fess.
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 (law) - 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.
Bar (computing) - 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.

There are places named Bar:

Bar, Corr�ze - a commune in the d�partement of Corr�ze, France.
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 is part of the name of several communes of France:

Bar-le-Duc, in the Meuse d�partement.
Bar-sur-Aube, in the Aube d�partement.
Bar-sur-Seine, in the Aube d�partement.

BAR is an acronym for:

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:

The AAR reporting mark for the Bangor and Aroostook railroad.

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Bar

See also: Bar, Acronym, Alcohol, Aramaic, Association of American Railroads, Atmosphere, Aube, Ballet, Bangor and Aroostook