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war | bar |

As a proper noun war

is the personification of war, often depicted in armor, and riding a red horse.

As a noun bar is

bar.

war

English

Alternative forms

* warre (obsolete)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Organized]], large-scale, armed conflict between [[country, countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
  • * 1917 , (Henry Ford), My Life and Work , Chapter 17:
  • Nobody can deny that war' is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. ' War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.
  • * 2007 , Carlos Ramirez-Faria, Concise Encyclopaedia of World History :
  • Germany declared war' on France, who reciprocated, on August 3 [1939], and England declared ' war on Germany on August 4, when Belgium was already under invasion.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
  • (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
  • * 1865 , (Herman Melville), "The Surrender at Appomattox":
  • All human tribes glad token see
    In the close of the wars of .
  • * 1999 , (Bill Clinton) at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C, November 8 1999:
  • A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war .
  • (countable) By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
  • # (figuratively) A campaign against something.
  • The "war on drugs" is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs.
  • The "war on terror" is a campaign against terrorist crime.
  • In the US, conservatives rail against the "war on Christmas".
  • # (business, countable) A bout of fierce competition in trade.
  • I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war , getting my car for far less than it's worth.
  • The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war , each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan.
  • (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of war.
  • * Prior
  • His complement of stores, and total war .
  • (obsolete) Armed forces.
  • * Milton
  • On their embattled ranks the waves return, / And overwhelm their war .
  • (uncountable) A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.
  • * 2004 , Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven
  • We played crazy eights, war , fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.

    Antonyms

    * peace

    Derived terms

    * all's fair in love and war * anti-war * civil war * cold war * conventional war * declaration of war * dynastic war * edit war * flame war * gas war * go to war * holy war * hot war * Hundred Years' War * inter-war * laws of war * man of war, man-of-war, man-o-war, man-o'-war * man-o'-war suit * nuclear war * perpetual war * pissing war * Portuguese man-of-war * post-war * pre-war * price war * prisoner of war, , PW * pro-war * proxy war * revert war * ship of war * spoils of war * state of war * theater of war, theatre of war * thumb war * total war * trade war * tug of war * turf war * undeclared war * war- * war between the sexes * war bond * war bonnet * war bride * War Cabinet * war chalk * war chest * war child * war crime * war criminal * war cry * war dance * war-dial * war-drive * warfare * war game, wargame * war groom * war hammer * warhead * war hound * warlord * war machine * warmonger * war of aggression * war of conquest * war of nerves * war of words * war paint, warpaint * war party * warpath * war reparations * war-ridden * warring * warrior * war room * war story * wartime * war to end all wars * war torn, war-torn * war veteran * war whoop * war widow * war zone * world war * World War One * World War Two

    See also

    * battle

    Verb

    (warr)
  • To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
  • * (William Shakespeare), King Henry V , act 3, sc. 1:
  • Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more . . .
    Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
    And teach them how to war .
  • * 1882 , (George Bernard Shaw), Cashel Byron's Profession , ch. 14:
  • This vein of reflection, warring with his inner knowledge that he had been driven by fear and hatred . . ., produced an exhausting whirl in his thoughts.
    To war the Scot, and borders to defend. — Daniel.
  • To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
  • That thou mightest war a good warfare. — Tim. i. 18.

    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

    *

    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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