Bar
Encyclopedia

Food and drink

  • Bar (establishment)
    Bar (establishment)
    A bar is a business establishment that serves alcoholic drinks — beer, wine, liquor, and cocktails — for consumption on the premises.Bars provide stools or chairs that are placed at tables or counters for their patrons. Some bars have entertainment on a stage, such as a live band, comedians, go-go...

    , a retail establishment that serves alcoholic beverages
  • Bar (counter), the counter at which drinks are served by a bartender
    Bartender
    A bartender is a person who serves beverages behind a counter in a bar, pub, tavern, or similar establishment. A bartender, in short, "tends the bar". The term barkeeper may carry a connotation of being the bar's owner...

  • Dessert bar, a type of cookie

Law

  • Bar (law)
    Bar (law)
    Bar in a legal context has three possible meanings: the division of a courtroom between its working and public areas; the process of qualifying to practice law; and the legal profession.-Courtroom division:...

    , in a legal context has three possible meanings: the division of a courtroom between its working and public areas; the process of qualifying to practice law; and the legal profession
  • Bar examination
    Bar examination
    A bar examination is an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction.-Brazil:...

    , an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction
  • Bar association
    Bar association
    A bar association is a professional body of lawyers. Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their jurisdiction; others are professional organizations dedicated to serving their members; in many cases, they are both...

    , a professional body of lawyers. Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their jurisdiction; others are professional organizations dedicated to serving their members; in many cases, they are both

Science and computing

  • Bar (computer science), a metasyntactic variable
  • Bar (tropical cyclone)
    Bar (tropical cyclone)
    The bar of a mature tropical cyclone is a very dark gray-black layer of cloud appearing near the horizon as seen from an observer preceding the approach of the storm, and is composed of dense stratocumulus clouds. Cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds bearing precipitation follow immediately after the...

    , a layer of dark cloud near the horizon
  • Bar (unit)
    Bar (unit)
    The bar is a unit of pressure equal to 100 kilopascals, and roughly equal to the atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level. Other units derived from the bar are the megabar , kilobar , decibar , centibar , and millibar...

    , a unit of measuring pressure
  • BAR domain
    BAR domain
    BAR domains are highly conserved protein dimerisation domains that occur in many proteins involved in membrane dynamics in a cell. The BAR domain is banana shaped and binds to membrane via its concave face. It is capable of sensing membrane curvature by binding preferentially to curved membranes...

    , a protein domain
  • Base Address Register, a concept in computer hardware design

Media and entertainment

  • Bar (dance)
    Bar (dance)
    Bar is a form of folk dance from eastern Turkey.With their structure and formation, they are the dances performed by groups in the open. They are spread, in general, over the eastern part of Anatolia . The characteristic of their formation is that they are performed side-by-side, hand, shoulder and...

    , a form of dance that originated in Western Armenia and continue to be found in modern Turkey. The word "Bar" (պար) means dance in the Armenian language
  • Bar (music)
    Bar (music)
    In musical notation, a bar is a segment of time defined by a given number of beats of a given duration. Typically, a piece consists of several bars of the same length, and in modern musical notation the number of beats in each bar is specified at the beginning of the score by the top number of a...

    , a segment of time in musical notation
  • The Bar (painting), by John Brack
  • The Bar (book) (1906), a book by Margery Williams
    Margery Williams
    Margery Williams Bianco was an English-American author, primarily of popular children's books. A professional writer since the age of nineteen, she achieved lasting fame at forty-one with the 1922 publication of the classic that is her best-known work, The Velveteen Rabbit.-Early life and writing...

  • Bay Area Reporter
    Bay Area Reporter
    The Bay Area Reporter is a free weekly newspaper serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities in the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the oldest-continuously published, and one of the largest LGBT newspapers in the United States....

    , a newspaper
  • Biblical Archaeology Review
    Biblical Archaeology Review
    Biblical Archaeology Review is a publication that seeks to connect the academic study of archaeology to a broad general audience seeking to understand the world of the Bible and the Near and Middle East . Covering both the Old and New Testaments, BAR presents the latest discoveries and...

    , a journal
  • The Bar (TV series)
    The Bar (TV Series)
    The Bar was a popular Swedish reality television program, that was first seen in Sweden in 2000 and in other countries from 2001. For around two months, a number of contestants work in a bar and try to avoid periodic publicly-voted evictions from a communal house and hence win a cash prize...

    , a Swedish reality television program
  • The Bar (radio network)
    The Bar (radio network)
    The Bar is a 24-hour music network produced by Waitt Radio Networks. It's playlist is composed of Country/Rock music spanning from the 1960s to today from artists such as George Strait, The Eagles, Toby Keith, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Johnny Cash, etc. that mainly targets listeners ages...

    , a 24-hour music network produced by Waitt Radio Networks

Places

  • Bar (gate), as in Potters Bar
    Potters Bar
    Potters Bar is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire, England, located north of Central London. In 2001 it had a population of 21,618....

     and the Bars of York
  • Bar (landform)
    Bar (landform)
    A shoal, sandbar , or gravelbar is a somewhat linear landform within or extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt or small pebbles. A spit or sandspit is a type of shoal...

  • Bar (river morphology)
    Bar (river morphology)
    A bar in a river is an elevated region of sediment that has been deposited by the flow. Types of bars include mid-channel bars , point bars , and mouth bars...

    , in a river is an elevated region of sand or gravel that has been deposited by the flow
  • Bar (river), France
  • Bar, Corrèze
    Bar, Corrèze
    Bar is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:...

    , France
  • Bar, Meuse, France, former seat of the Counts and Dukes of Bar
  • Bar, Montenegro
    Bar, Montenegro
    Bar is a coastal town in Montenegro. It has a population of 17,727...

    , a coastal town in Montenegro. It has a population of 13,719 (2003 census). Bar is the centre of Bar Municipality and a major seaport of Montenegro
  • Bar, Tibet
    Bar, Tibet
    Bar is a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It lies at an altitude of 4676 metres ....

  • Bar, Ukraine
    Bar, Ukraine
    Bar is a city located on the Rov River in the Vinnytsia Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Barskyi Raion , and is part of the historic region of Podolia. The current estimated population is 17,200 .-History:The city was a small trade outpost named Row...

  • Bár
    Bár
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    , Hungary
  • Bar, a historic duchy of both the Holy Roman Empire and the crown of France; see Counts and Dukes of Bar
    Counts and dukes of Bar
    Bar was a historic duchy of both the Holy Roman Empire and the crown of France, though later totally incorporated with Lorraine into France in 1766. The duchy of Bar includes the "pays" of Barrois.- History :...


People

  • Bar Refaeli
    Bar Refaeli
    Bar Refaeli is an Israeli model and occasional actress, most known for her modeling work and for her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. She was the cover model of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.-Early life:...

     (born 1985), Israeli model
  • Ellen Bar, New York City Ballet soloist
  • Moshe Bar (investor) (born 1971), Israeli technologist, author, investor and entrepreneur
  • Moshe Bar (neuroscientist)
    Moshe Bar (neuroscientist)
    Moshe Bar is a neuroscientist, associate professor in psychiatry and radiology at Harvard Medical School, and associate professor in psychiatry and neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital. He directs the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical...

    , neuroscientist, associate professor in psychiatry and radiology, and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory at Harvard Medical School
  • Shirley Temple Bar
    Shirley Temple Bar
    Shirley Temple Bar is a drag queen from Dublin, Ireland, whose name is a play on both Shirley Temple and a cultural area of Dublin city called Temple Bar. A 1997 winner of the Alternative Miss Ireland competition, Shirley hosts a weekly bingo and drag show in Dublin's largest gay bar, The George...

    , drag queen from Dublin, Ireland
  • Haim Bar
    Haim Bar
    Haim Bar is a former Israeli footballer who spent his whole career playing for Maccabi Netanya-Honours:*Israeli Premier League :**1973–74, 1977–78, 1979–80, 1982–83*Israel State Cup :**1978*League Cup :...

     (born 1954), former Israeli footballer
  • Amos Bar
    Amos Bar
    Amos Bar , also known as "Possah", was an Israeli author, teacher, and editor. Most of his books are for children and young adults.-Biography:...

     (1931–2011), Israeli author, teacher, and editor
  • Israel Bar
    Israel Bar
    Israel Bar was an Austrian-born Israeli citizen convicted of espionage. On March 31, 1961, Bar, a senior employee in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, was arrested under suspicion of espionage for the Soviet Union...

     (1912–1966), convicted of espionage by Israel in 1961
  • Walter Bar
    Walter Bar
    Walter Bar is a Swiss fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.-References:...

     (born 1938), Swiss fencer
  • Shlomo Bar
    Shlomo Bar
    Shlomo Bar is an Israeli musician, composer, and social activist. He is a pioneer of ethnic music in Israel.- Biography :Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1943, Bar emigrated to Israel a few years later. He learnt how to play the darbuka and other ethnic percussion instruments, performing in various small...

     (born 1943), Israeli musician, composer, and social activist
  • Alon Bar
    Alon Bar
    Alon Bar is an Israeli/American filmmaker.He wrote the award winning feature film "Aaron Cohen's Debt,"...

     (born 1966), Israeli/American filmmaker
  • Sergiu Bar
    Sergiu Bar
    Sergiu Bar is a Romanian footballer currently under contract for Romanian side CSU Voinţa Sibiu.-External links:* *...

     (born 1980), Romanian footballer
  • Zvi Bar
    Zvi Bar
    Zvi Bar, born 1935 in Kfar Yona, is an Israeli politician and current mayor of the Israeli city of Ramat Gan. First elected mayor of the city in 1989, he has since been reelected four times consecutively – in 1993, 1998, 2003, and 2008....

     (born 1935)
  • Noma Bar
    Noma Bar
    Avinoam Noma Bar, is a Graphic Designer. His work has appeared in many media outlets including: Time Out London, BBC, Random House, The Observer, The Economist and Wallpaper*...

     (born 1973), Graphic Designer
  • Bar, a patronymic
    Patronymic
    A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...

     prefix in Aramaic and Hebrew

Punctuation

  • Bar (diacritic)
    Bar (diacritic)
    A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme. It may be used as a diacritic to derive new letters from old ones, or simply as an addition to make a grapheme more distinct from others....

    , a line through a letter or other grapheme
  • Vertical bar
    Vertical bar
    The vertical bar is a character with various uses in mathematics, where it can be used to represent absolute value, among others; in computing and programming and in general typography, as a divider not unlike the interpunct...

    , a punctuation symbol

BAR

  • Austro-Bavarian language, ISO 639-3 code BAR
  • Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
    Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
    The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad is a defunct United States railroad company, that brought rail service to Aroostook County, Maine. Brightly painted BAR box cars attracted national attention in the 1950s. First-generation diesel locomotives operated on BAR until they were museum pieces...

    , reporting mark BAR
  • British American Racing
    British American Racing
    British American Racing was a Formula One constructor that competed in the sport from 1999 to 2005. BAR began by acquiring Tyrrell, and used Supertec engines for their first year...

    , a Formula One constructor
  • The California Bureau of Automotive Repair
    California Bureau of Automotive Repair
    The California Bureau of Automotive Repair has two primary functions: to educate on and enforce the Automotive Repair Act with associated regulations and to administer the California Smog Check Program. The California Bureau of Automotive Repair is part of the California Department of Consumer...

  • Harvey House Railroad Depot
    Harvey House Railroad Depot
    The Harvey House Railroad Depot, known as the Casa del Desierto - its original name, is a former Fred Harvey Harvey House located in Barstow, in the Mojave Desert within San Bernardino County, California...

    , station code BAR
  • IATA code for Baker Army Air Field (abandoned), Baker Island
    Baker Island
    Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia, and is a possession of the United States. Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north.Located at...

    , United States Minor Outlying Islands
    United States Minor Outlying Islands
    The United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 3166-1 code, consists of nine United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea: Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll,...


Weapons

  • Browning BAR
    Browning BAR
    The BAR is a gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Browning Arms Company first in Belgium and later in Japan. The rifle loads from a box magazine detachable from a hinged floor plate. This rifle should not be confused with the M1918 military rifle, which is a completely different...

    , a semi-automatic rifle produced in Belgium and Japan
  • M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, an American family of automatic rifles and light machine guns

Other

  • A dowel
    Dowel
    A dowel is a solid cylindrical rod, usually made of wood, plastic or metal. In its original manufactured form, dowel is called dowel rod.Dowel rod is employed in numerous, diverse applications. It is used to form axles in toys, as detents on gymnastics grips, as knitting needles, as structural...

    , pole, or beam
    Beam (structure)
    A beam is a horizontal structural element that is capable of withstanding load primarily by resisting bending. The bending force induced into the material of the beam as a result of the external loads, own weight, span and external reactions to these loads is called a bending moment.- Overview...

     used as a support structure
  • Bar (heraldry)
    Bar (heraldry)
    In heraldry, a bar is an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across the shield.-Common ordinaries:A single bar placed across the top of the field is called a chief. A single bar placed over the center of the field is a fess. A division of the field by many bars — often six or eight — is a...

    , an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across the shield
  • Medal bar
    Medal bar
    A medal bar or medal clasp is a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal. It is most commonly used to indicate the campaign or operation the recipient received the award for, and multiple bars on the same medal are used to indicate that the...

    , a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal
  • Bar Confederation
    Bar Confederation
    The Bar Confederation was an association of Polish nobles formed at the fortress of Bar in Podolia in 1768 to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against Russian influence and against King Stanisław August Poniatowski and Polish reformers who were...

    , an 18th-century Polish association
  • A type of gatehouse
    Gatehouse
    A gatehouse, in architectural terminology, is a building enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a castle, manor house, fort, town or similar buildings of importance.-History:...

     in city walls of the Middle Ages
  • Bar mitzvah
  • Bar (form), a cell phone form factor

See also

  • Barr (disambiguation)
  • Barre (disambiguation)
  • Bars (disambiguation)
  • Bär
    Bär
    Bär is the surname of:* Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn , Russian poet and grammarian* Dietmar Bär, German actor* Gert Bär , German mathematics...

  • Barr (placename element), a pre-Indo-European linguistic root meaning 'wooded hill', 'natural barrier'
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