bar vs open

bar

verb
  • To lock or bolt with a bar. 

  • To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). 

  • To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe. 

  • To prohibit. 

noun
  • An establishment offering cosmetic services. 

  • Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage. 

  • 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. 

  • The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed. 

  • 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). 

  • The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit. 

  • A broad shaft, band, or stripe. 

  • The bar exam, the legal licensing exam. 

  • A drilling or tamping rod. 

  • A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room. 

  • An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act. 

  • A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass. 

  • A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. 

  • A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart. 

  • 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). 

  • A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level. 

  • The counter of such premises. 

  • 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. 

  • A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo. 

  • The crossbar. 

  • Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome. 

  • A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value. 

  • A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. 

  • An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served. 

  • Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others. 

  • One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess. 

  • 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. 

  • Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. 

  • 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. 

  • A city gate, in some British place names. 

  • An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises. 

  • A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house. 

  • One of those musical sections. 

  • A vein or dike crossing a lode. 

  • A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. 

  • One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining. 

  • A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. 

  • A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault. 

  • An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity. 

  • A measure of drugs, typically one ounce. 

  • The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay. 

prep
  • Except, other than, besides. 

  • Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name. 

open

verb
  • To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position. 

  • To move to a position allowing fluid to flow. 

  • To bring up, broach. 

  • To make accessible to customers or clients. 

  • To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker. 

  • To spread; to expand into an open or loose position. 

  • To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing. 

  • To become open. 

  • To enter upon, begin. 

  • To turn on; to switch on. 

  • To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility. 

  • To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen. 

  • To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers. 

  • To start (a campaign). 

  • To begin conducting business. 

  • To reveal one's hand. 

  • To load into memory for viewing or editing. 

noun
  • Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location. 

  • Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view. 

  • The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message. 

  • A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing. 

  • A sports event in which anybody can compete. 

adj
  • Not fulfilled. 

  • Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components. 

  • Having a free variable. 

  • Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot. 

  • Public 

  • Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow. 

  • With open access, of open science, or both. 

  • Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character. 

  • Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body. 

  • In current use; mapped to part of memory. 

  • Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard. 

  • Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business. 

  • Able to have something pass through or along it. 

  • not covered, showing what is inside 

  • To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing. 

  • Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure. 

  • Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated. 

  • To be in a position allowing fluid to flow. 

  • Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve. 

  • Able to be accessed (physically). 

  • Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels. 

  • That ends in a vowel; not having a coda. 

  • Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended. 

  • Receptive. 

  • Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X. 

  • Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement. 

  • Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration. 

  • Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate. 

  • Whose first and last vertices are different. 

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