Bar
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). To prohibit. To lock or bolt with a bar.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater (US), a piece of thinner material being called a strip. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart. A business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house. The counter of such a premises A similar device or simply a closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity. A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo. The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay Short for the Bar exam, the legal licensing exam. A collective term for lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others. The legal profession of lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others. A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value. One of those musical sections. The crossbar The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501). One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess. A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault A unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals.
Part of speech: preposition
Definition: Except, with the exception of.
Rod
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.A unit of length. Equal to a pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters.An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5½ yards.A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a drive-shaft.Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.A pistol; a gun.A penis; the male rod.A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
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