Bar or BAR may refer to:

Food and drink

Bar (establishment) A bar, also known as a saloon, a tavern or tippling house, or sometimes as a pub or club, is a retail business establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water ...

, selling alcoholic beverages * Candy bar * Chocolate bar

Science and technology

* Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment *

Bar (tropical cyclone) The bar of a mature tropical cyclone is a very dark gray-black layer of cloud that appears to be near to the horizon as seen from an observer preceding the approach of the storm, and is composed primarily of dense stratocumulus clouds. Cumulus and c ...

, a layer of cloud * Bar (unit), a unit of pressure * BAR domain, a protein domain * Bar stock, of metal * Sandbar

Computing

Bar (computer science) The terms foobar (), foo, bar, baz, and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. - Etymology of "Foo" They have been used to name entities such as variables, fun ...

, a placeholder *

Base Address Register PCI configuration space is the underlying way that the Conventional PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express perform auto configuration of the cards inserted into their bus. Overview PCI devices have a set of registers referred to as ''configuration space ...

in PCI * Bar, a mobile phone form factor * Bar, a type of

graphical control element A graphical widget (also graphical control element or control) in a graphical user interface is an element of interaction, such as a button or a scroll bar. Controls are software components that a computer user interacts with through direct ...

Law

Bar (law) In law, the bar is the legal profession as an institution. The term is a metonym for the line (or "bar") that separates the parts of a courtroom reserved for spectators and those reserved for participants in a trial such as lawyers. In the Un ...

, the legal profession *

Bar association A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing to separ ...

* Bar examination

Media and entertainment

* ''Bar'' (Croatian TV series) * Bar (Czech TV series) *

Bar (dance) Bar is a Turkish folk dance from Eastern Turkey. The word bar is from the Armenian word "Պար" (bar) which means dance. With their structure and formation, they are the dances performed by groups in the open. They are spread, in general, all ove ...

, Turkey *

Bar (music) In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value and the boundaries of the bar are indicated by vertical bar lines. Dividing mu ...

, a segment *

Bar (Polish TV series) Bar was the local season of the reality The Bar in Poland. The show was aired on Polsat (first 5 editions) and TV4 (6th edition). Was, like its precursor, '' Big Brother'', as many supporters as opponents. By the year 2004 held five Polish edition ...

* Bar (Slovenian TV series) * '' Bay Area Reporter'', a newspaper * '' Biblical Archaeology Review'', a magazine

Places

* Bar (Martian crater) * Bar, Rutog County, Tibet, China * Bar (river), France * Bar, Corrèze, France, a commune * Bar-le-Duc, France, a commune formerly Bar, Meuse * Bar-sur-Aube, France, a commune * Bar-sur-Seine, France, a commune * Bár, Hungary, a village * Bar, Bushehr, Iran, a village *

Bar, Hormozgan Bar ( fa, بار, also Romanized as Bār) is a village in Kukherd Rural District, Kukherd District, Bastak County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 113, in 23 families. References *3. الكوخردى ، مح� ...

, Iran, a village *

Bar, Razavi Khorasan Bar ( fa, بار, also Romanized as Bār) is a city in Firuzeh Rural District, in the Central District of Firuzeh County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 4,103, in 968 families. Its close major cities are ...

, Iran, a city * Bar Municipality, Montenegro **

Bar, Montenegro Bar ( Montenegrin and Serbian: Бар, ; sq, Tivar; it, Antivari or ''Antibari'') is a coastal town and seaport in southern Montenegro. It is the capital of the Bar Municipality and a center for tourism. According to the 2011 census, the ci ...

, a town *

Bar Region The Bar Region, or the Bars (), is an area in central Punjab, now part of the Punjab Province of Pakistan. The area consists of agricultural land that was cleared in the nineteenth century for the then 'new' canal irrigation system that the Br ...

, Punjab, Pakistan *

Bar, Republic of Buryatia Bar (russian: Бар) is a rural locality (a selo) in Mukhorshibirsky District, Republic of Buryatia Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia (russian: Республика Бурятия, r=Respublika Buryatiya, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə bʊ ...

, Russia * Bar, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine, a town * Duchy of Bar, part of the Holy Roman Empire * Barbados, IOC and UNDP country code BAR

Language

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. It can take the form of a v ...

, a line through a letter * Bavarian language (ISO 639-3: bar) *

Vertical bar The vertical bar, , is a glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography. It has many names, often related to particular meanings: Sheffer stroke (in logic), pipe, bar, or (literally the word "or"), vbar, and others. Usage ...

, a punctuation symbol * X-bar theory, in linguistics

Transportation

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad was a United States railroad company that brought rail service to Aroostook County in northern Maine. Brightly-painted BAR boxcars attracted national attention in the 1950s. First-generation diesel locomotives op ...

, US, reporting mark *

Barstow station The Barstow Harvey House, also known as Harvey House Railroad Depot and Barstow station, is a historic building in Barstow, California. Originally built in 1911 as Casa del Desierto, a Harvey House hotel and Santa Fe Railroad depot, it currently ...

, US, station code * California Bureau of Automotive Repair, a consumer protection agency * Qionghai Bo'ao Airport, IATA code

Firearms

* M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle * Browning BAR, a Belgian rifle

Other uses

* ''Bar'' (Aramaic), a patronymic prefix in Aramaic *

Bar (heraldry) In heraldry, a bar is an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across the shield. If only one bar appears across the middle of the shield, it is termed a ''fess''; if two or more appear, they can only be called bars. Calling the bar a diminuti ...

, a band across a shield * Bar (name) *

Bar Confederation The Bar Confederation ( pl, Konfederacja barska; 1768–1772) was an association of Polish nobles (szlachta) formed at the fortress of Bar in Podolia (now part of Ukraine) in 1768 to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish� ...

, an 18th-century Polish association * Bar Mitzvah, Jewish ceremony * Blaauwberg Armoured Regiment, South African Army * British Archaeological Reports *

British American Racing British American Racing (BAR) 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. Subsequently, they formed a partnership with Honda which l ...

, a Formula One constructor * Chin-up bar, playground equipment * Medal bar, additional award * Space bar, on a keyboard * Historical gatehouse * Bennett acceptance ratio in thermodynamics