'bars' definitions:
Definition of 'bars'
From: WordNet
noun
Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights [syn: parallel bars, bars]
Definition of 'bars'
From: GCIDE
- Base \Base\, n. [F. base, L. basis, fr. Gr. ba`sis a stepping, step, a base, pedestal, fr. bai`nein to go, step, akin to E. come. Cf. Basis, and see Come.]
- 1. The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue. "The base of mighty mountains." --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Arch.) (a) The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented. (b) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Bot.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Chem.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Pharmacy) The chief ingredient in a compound. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Dyeing) A substance used as a mordant. --Ure. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Fort.) The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Geom.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand. [1913 Webster]
- 10. (Math.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms. [1913 Webster]
- 11. [See Base low.] A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base. [Now commonly written bass.] [1913 Webster]
- The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 12. (Mil.) A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 13. (Mil.) The smallest kind of cannon. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 14. (Zool.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ. [1913 Webster]
- 15. (Crystallog.) The basal plane of a crystal. [1913 Webster]
- 16. (Geol.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline. [1913 Webster]
- 17. (Her.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon. [1913 Webster]
- 18. The housing of a horse. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 19. pl. A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 20. The lower part of a robe or petticoat. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 21. An apron. [Obs.] "Bakers in their linen bases." --Marston. [1913 Webster]
- 22. The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games. [1913 Webster]
- To their appointed base they went. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 23. (Surv.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles. --Lyman. [1913 Webster]
- 24. A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, {prison base}, or bars. "To run the country base." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 25. (Baseball) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield. [1913 Webster]
- Altern base. See under Altern.
- Attic base. (Arch.) See under Attic.
- Base course. (Arch.) (a) The first or lower course of a foundation wall, made of large stones or a mass of concrete; -- called also foundation course. (b) The architectural member forming the transition between the basement and the wall above.
- Base hit (Baseball), a hit, by which the batsman, without any error on the part of his opponents, is able to reach the first base without being put out.
- Base line. (a) A main line taken as a base, as in surveying or in military operations. (b) A line traced round a cannon at the rear of the vent.
- Base plate, the foundation plate of heavy machinery, as of the steam engine; the bed plate.
- Base ring (Ordnance), a projecting band of metal around the breech, connected with the body of the gun by a concave molding. --H. L. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'bars'
- Bar,
- Barful,
- Barred,
- Barring,
- In bar of,
- Bar Harbor,
- Bar Harbor, ME,
- Bar Nunn,
- Bar iron,
- Bar shoe,
- Bar shot,
- Bar sinister,
- Bar tracery,
- Bar'ege,
- Barred owl,
- Bars gemel,
- Blank bar,
- Boring bar,
- Brake bar,
- Call to the bar,
- Capstan bar,
- Case at bar,
- Channel bar,
- Common bar,
- Crown bar,
- Cutter bar,
- Defence in bar,
- Detector bar,
- Diamond Bar,
- Equalizing bar,
- Father of the bar,
- Finger bar,
- Fire bar,
- Fish bar,
- Gill bars,
- Gold Bar,
- Guide bar,
- Matter in bar,
- Merchant bar,
- Mill bar,
- Mosquito bar,
- Muck bar,
- Needle bar,
- Parallel bar,
- Pinching bar,
- Plea in bar,
- Port bar,
- Presser bar,
- Prison bars,
- Radius bar,
- Saddle bar,
- Scrimping bar,
- Shackle bar,
- Sinker bar,
- Slice bar,
- Splinter bar,
- Starting bar,
- Sway bar,
- To call to the bar,
- Toll bar,
- Trial at bar,
- Utter bar,
- apricot bar,
- axle bar,
- bar absolute,
- bar billiards,
- bar bit,
- bar chart,
- bar code,
- bar exam,
- bar examination,
- bar fly,
- bar girl,
- bar graph,
- bar hop,
- bar line,
- bar magnet,
- bar mask,
- bar mitzvah,
- bar printer,
- bar soap,
- bar tin,
- barred pickerel,
- barred woodpecker,
- bastard bar,
- belly up to the bar,
- candy bar,
- carob bar,
- cash bar,
- chinning bar,
- chocolate bar,
- coffee bar,
- color bar,
- colour bar,
- date bar,
- double bar,
- fruit bar,
- gill bar,
- grab bar,
- granola bar,
- hershey bar,
- high bar,
- hitching bar,
- horizontal bar,
- metal bar,
- milk bar,
- nougat bar,
- nut bar,
- oyster bar,
- parallel bars,
- peanut bar,
- pinch bar,
- porter bar,
- pry bar,
- ripping bar,
- salad bar,
- sand bar,
- slide bar,
- snack bar,
- space bar,
- stabilizer bar,
- stall bar,
- stars and bars,
- sushi bar,
- t-bar,
- tamping bar,
- title bar,
- towel bar,
- uneven bars,
- wet bar,
- wine bar,
- wrecking bar,
- Bar Nunn, WY,
- Close-barred,
- Diamond Bar, CA,
- Gold Bar, WA,
- Puddle-bar,
- Sea-bar,
- Special plea in bar,
- bar-shaped,
- black-barred,
- bus-bar,
- handle-bars,
- put behind bars,
- t-bar lift,
- uneven parallel bars,
- K-Bar Ranch,
- Side-bar rule,
- anti-sway bar,
- bar-room plant,
- K-Bar Ranch, TX