Glossary

The term bar or BAR may refer to the following:

• a retail establishment where alcoholic beverages are served, or the surface upon which beverages are served
• in a legal context, either the physical division between the working and public areas of a courtroom, the process of qualifying to practice law or the legal profession itself
• Bar association, a professional body of lawyers
• Bar examination, a test that is used to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law within a specific jurisdiction
• a metric unit of pressure, approximately equal to the atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level
• a part of a tropical cyclone composed of dense stratocumulus clouds
• Shoal (also sandbank, sandbar, gravelbar), a type of linear land form, partly or fully submerged in a body of water, composed of silt, sand and/or small pebbles
• BAR (Bin–Amphiphysin–Rvs) domain, a protein domain
• a type of Turkish folk dance
• a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in musical notation
• The Bar, a 1954 painting by Australian artist John Brack
• Biblical Archaeology Review, a bi-monthly archaeology magazine
• Bay Area Reporter, a weekly LGBT community newspaper
• The Bar, an international reality television program of Swedish origin
• a patronymic prefix in Hebrew and Aramaic
• Bar (or stroke), a diacritic consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme
• X-bar theory, a component of linguistic theory
• Bavarian language, with an ISO 639-3 code of BAR
• Vertical bar (or pipe), a punctuation symbol and computer character with multiple uses in typography and computing
• Foobar (also fubar, foo and bar), a placeholder name for variables, functions and commands in computing and computing-related documentation
• a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China
• a town in the municipality of the same name in Montenegro
• a city in the Vinnytsia Oblast (or province) in Ukraine
• a river in the Ardenees department of the Champagne-Ardenne region in France
• a commune in the Corrèze department of the Limousin region in France
• Bar-le-Duc (formerly Bar), a commune in the Meuse department of the Lorraine region in France
• Bár, a village in the Baranya county in Hungary
• B?r, the name of two different villages in the Hormozgan and Razavi Khorasan provinces respectively, in Iran
• Bohr (also B?r), a village in the Bushehr province in Iran
• Harvey House Railroad Depot (also Casa del Desierto or Barstow Amtrak Station), a railway station in Barstow, California in the US with the station code of BAR
• Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, formerly a US railroad company
• British American Racing (later Lucky Strike BAR Honda), formerly a Formula One constructor that competed from 1999 to 2005
• California Bureau of Automotive Repair, a part of the state government of California in the US
• a type of mobile phone form factor
• an ordinary in heraldry consisting of a horizontal band across a shield
• Medal bar (or medal clasp), a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a medal
• Chin-up bar (or pull-up bar), a piece of playground or exercise equipment on which the user does a chin-up or pull-up