(countable, finance, trading) One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
(countable, informal) An arboretum.
(finance, trading) The act of or potential for arbitrage.
verb
(finance, trading, transitive) To engage in arbitrage.
bar
bar
noun
(UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
(UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
(US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
(by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
(countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
(farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
(figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
(geography, nautical, hydrology) 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).
(heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
(law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
(music) One of those musical sections.
(physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
(programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
(slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
(soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
(telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
(typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
A city gate, in some British place names.
A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
An establishment offering cosmetic services.
An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
The counter of such premises.
prep
(horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
Except, other than, besides.
verb
(transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
(transitive) To prohibit.
To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
bra
bra
noun
(physics) One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the row vector; the other (column) vector being its complex conjugate, the ket.
