Bar

Bar may refer to:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Punctuation

• Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter or other grapheme
• Vertical bar, a punctuation symbol

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

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

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

See also

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