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In mining terms the difference between horse and bar

is that horse is a mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance while bar is a vein or dike crossing a lode.

In transitive terms the difference between horse and bar

is that horse is to provide with a horse while bar is to lock or bolt with a bar.

As nouns the difference between horse and bar

is that horse is Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.bar is a solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

As verbs the difference between horse and bar

is that horse is to frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around". while bar is to obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

As a preposition bar is

except, with the exception of.

As a proper noun Bar is

a city in Montenegro.

horse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.
  • #A hoofed mammal, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
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  • #*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses', carriage-'''horses''', and cart-' horses , without taking the least notice of them.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
  • #(lb) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae , including the zebra or the ass.
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  • # Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
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  • # The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.
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  • #(lb) A large person.
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  • #(lb) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
  • (lb) Equipment with legs.
  • #In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.
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  • #A frame with legs, used to support something.
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  • Equipment.
  • #A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
  • #A breastband for a leadsman.
  • #An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
  • #A jackstay.
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  • #:(Totten)
  • (lb) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
  • (lb) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
  • *1962 , , 00:15:20
  • *:Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar
  • (lb) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or (see ).
  • Usage notes
    * The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarse
    Synonyms
    * (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knight
    Hyponyms
    * (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallion
    Derived terms
    * change horses in midstream * cutting horse * dark horse * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * * flog a dead horse / beat a dead horse * from the horse's mouth * get off one's high horse * hold one's horses * horse and carriage * horseback * horse-breaker * horse-chestnut * horse-drawn * horse face * horsefeathers * horseflesh * horsefly * horsely * horse latitudes * horselaugh * horseman * horsemanship * horse of a different color * horse opera * horse pill * horseplay * horsepower * horse race * horse racing * horseradish * horse sense * horses for courses * horseshit * horseshoe * horse-stinger * horse trading * horsewhip * horsey, horsy, horsie * hung like a horse * I could eat a horse * one-horse race * one-horse town * pack horse, packhorse * plowhorse, ploughhorse * pommel horse * rocking horse * saddle horse * sawhorse * sea horse, seahorse * straight from the horse's mouth * sumpter horse * swap horses in midstream * vaulting horse * warhorse * willing horse * workhorse * work like a horse
    See also
    (kinds of horse by physical attributes) * stallion, sire, ridgeling, gelding * mare, dame * colt, yearling * filly, foal * pony (kinds of horse by employment) * sumpter, rowney * palfrey * charger, destrier * brumby, mustang (related terms) * knight, cavalier, cavalry, chivalry * equid, equine * gee, haw, giddy-up, whoa * hoof, mane, tail, withers * gallop, canter, walk, trot * neigh, whinny * tandem, team, chariot, cart, wagon * ungulate * *

    Verb

    (hors)
  • To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
  • * (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
  • "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
    But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.
  • * (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :
  • I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.
  • To provide with a horse.
  • * Shakespeare
  • being better horsed , outrode me
  • (obsolete) To get on horseback.
  • * 1888 , :
  • He horsed himself well.
  • To sit astride of; to bestride.
  • * 1608 , , II. i. 203:
  • Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
  • (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
  • To take or carry on the back.
  • * S. Butler
  • the keeper, horsing a deer
  • To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
  • * 1963 , Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone
  • So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.
    Derived terms
    * horse around * unhorse

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.
  • Alright, mate, got any horse ?
    Synonyms
    * (heroin) H, smack

    Statistics

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    bar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . May well have been reinforced by existing Old English term from the same root.

    Noun

  • A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
  • The window was protected by steel bars .
  • (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
  • Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
    We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
  • A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
  • bar of chocolate
    bar of soap
  • A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
  • a bar''' of light; a '''bar of colour
  • A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
  • A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. (For example, turning A' into ' ? .)
  • A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
  • The street was lined with all-night bars .
  • The counter of such a premises.
  • Step up to the bar and order a drink.
  • A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
  • In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc., a premises or counter serving non-alcoholic drinks.
  • An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
  • The club has lifted its bar on women members.
  • Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
  • * Dryden
  • Must I new bars to my own joy create?
  • (computing, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
  • Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar .
  • (UK, legal) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
  • The Bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
  • He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
  • (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
  • (music) One of those musical sections.
  • (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
  • (soccer) The crossbar
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010
  • , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar .}}
  • (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
  • An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
  • A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
  • (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).
  • (heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
  • An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
  • There were no bars so I didn't get your text.
  • A city gate, in some British place names.
  • Potter's Bar
  • (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
  • (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
  • (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
  • (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.
  • Synonyms
    * (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages) barroom, ginshop, pub (British ), public house, tavern * (official order prohibiting some activity) ban, prohibition * measure * See also
    Derived terms
    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * barring * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * disbar, disbarment * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    See also

    * (heraldry)

    Verb

    (barr)
  • To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
  • * {{quote-book, passage="One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night,
  • But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
    Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
    Then look for me by moonlight,
    Watch for me by moonlight,
    I'll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way."
    , title= , author=Alfred Noyes , year=1906 }}
    Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
  • To prohibit.
  • I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred .
  • To lock or bolt with a bar.
  • bar the door
  • to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe
  • * 1899 ,
  • I lived in a hut in the yard, but to be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.
    Synonyms
    * (obstruct) block, hinder, obstruct * (prohibit) ban, interdict, prohibit * (lock or bolt with a bar) * See also
    Derived terms
    * *

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Except, with the exception of.
  • He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
  • (horse racing)
  • Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar .
    Synonyms
    * apart from, barring, except, except for, excluding, other than, save
    Derived terms
    * *

    References

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , coined circa 1900.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
  • Derived terms
    * * *

    Anagrams

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