Bar
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[edit] Food and drink
- Bar (establishment), a retail establishment that serves alcoholic beverages
- Bar (counter), the counter at which drinks are served by a bartender
- Dessert bar, a type of cookie
[edit] Law
- Bar (law), 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, an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction
- Bar association, 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
[edit] Science and computing
- Bar (computer science), a metasyntactic variable
- Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of dark cloud near the horizon
- Bar (unit), a unit of measuring pressure
- BAR domain, a protein domain
- Base Address Register, a concept in computer hardware design
- Another term for the landform known as a shoal
[edit] Media and entertainment
- Bar (dance), 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), a segment of time in musical notation
- The Bar (painting), by John Brack
- The Bar (book) (1906), a book by Margery Williams
- Bay Area Reporter, a newspaper
- Biblical Archaeology Review, a journal
- The Bar (TV series), a Swedish reality television program
- The Bar (radio network), a 24-hour music network produced by Waitt Radio Networks
[edit] Places
- Bar (landform)
- Bar (river morphology), in a river is an elevated region of sand or gravel that has been deposited by the flow
- Bar (river), France
- Bar, Corrèze, France
- Bar, Meuse, France, former seat of the Counts and Dukes of Bar
- Bar, Montenegro, 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, Ukraine
- Bár, Hungary
- Bar, a historic duchy of both the Holy Roman Empire and the crown of France; see Counts and Dukes of Bar
[edit] People
- Bar Refaeli (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), neuroscientist, associate professor in psychiatry and radiology, and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory at Harvard Medical School
- Shirley Temple Bar, drag queen from Dublin, Ireland
- Haim Bar (born 1954), former Israeli footballer
- Amos Bar (1931–2011), Israeli author, teacher, and editor
- Israel Bar (1912–1966), convicted of espionage by Israel in 1961
- Walter Bar (born 1938), Swiss fencer
- Shlomo Bar (born 1943), Israeli musician, composer, and social activist
- Alon Bar (born 1966), Israeli/American filmmaker
- Sergiu Bar (born 1980), Romanian footballer
- Zvi Bar (born 1935)
- Noma Bar (born 1973), Graphic Designer
- Bar, a patronymic prefix in Aramaic and Hebrew
[edit] Punctuation
- Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter or other grapheme
- Vertical bar, a punctuation symbol
[edit] BAR
- Austro-Bavarian language, ISO 639-3 code BAR
- Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, reporting mark BAR
- British American Racing, a Formula One constructor
- The California Bureau of Automotive Repair
- Harvey House Railroad Depot, station code BAR
- IATA code for Baker Army Air Field (abandoned), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands
[edit] Weapons
- Browning BAR, a semi-automatic rifle produced in Belgium and Japan
- M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, an American family of automatic rifles and light machine guns
[edit] Other
- A dowel, pole, or beam used as a support structure
- Bar (heraldry), an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across the shield
- Medal bar, a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal
- Bar Confederation, an 18th-century Polish association
- A type of gatehouse in city walls of the Middle Ages
- Bar mitzvah
- Bar (form), a cell phone form factor
[edit] See also
- Barr (disambiguation)
- Barre (disambiguation)
- Bars (disambiguation)
- Bär
- Barr (placename element), a pre-Indo-European linguistic root meaning 'wooded hill', 'natural barrier'
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