Bar

Bar may refer to:

Food and drink

 * Bar (establishment), a retail establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, also the counter at which drinks are served by a bartender
 * Dessert bar, a type of cookie
 * Dive bar

Law

 * Bar (law), in a legal context has three possible meanings: the division of a courtroom between its working and public areas; the process of qualifying to practice law; and the legal profession
 * Bar examination, an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction
 * Bar association, a professional body of lawyers. Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their jurisdiction; others are professional organizations dedicated to serving their members; in many cases, they are both

Science and computing

 * Bar (computer science), a metasyntactic variable, like foo
 * Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of dark cloud near the horizon
 * Bar (unit), a unit of pressure defined as 100 kilopascals
 * BAR domain, a protein domain
 * Base Address Register, a concept in computer hardware design
 * Bar, another term for the landform known as a shoal
 * Bar (river morphology), an elevated region of sand or gravel deposited by the flow of a river
 * Bar, a notation used in X-bar theory in linguistics

Media and entertainment

 * Bar (dance), a form of dance that originated in Western Armenia and continue to be found in modern Turkey. The word bar (պար) means 'dance' in the Armenian language
 * Bar (music), a segment of time in musical notation
 * The Bar (painting), by John Brack
 * The Bar (book) (1906), a book by Margery Williams
 * Bay Area Reporter, a newspaper
 * Biblical Archaeology Review, a journal
 * The Bar (TV series), a Swedish reality television program
 * The Bar (radio network), a 24-hour music network produced by Waitt Radio Networks

Places

 * Bar (river), France
 * Bar, Corrèze, France
 * Bar, Meuse, France, former seat of the Counts and Dukes of Bar
 * Bar, Bushehr, Iran
 * Bar, Hormozgan, Iran
 * Bar, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
 * Bar, Montenegro, a coastal town in Montenegro
 * Bar, Tibet
 * Bar, Ukraine
 * Bár, Hungary
 * Bar, a historic duchy of both the Holy Roman Empire and the crown of France; see Counts and Dukes of Bar

People

 * Bar Refaeli (born 1985), Israeli model
 * Ellen Bar, New York City Ballet soloist
 * Moshe Bar (investor) (born 1971), Israeli technologist, author, investor and entrepreneur
 * Moshe Bar (neuroscientist), neuroscientist, associate professor in psychiatry and radiology, and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory at Harvard Medical School
 * Shirley Temple Bar, drag queen from Dublin, Ireland
 * Haim Bar (born 1954), Israeli footballer
 * Amos Bar (1931–2011), Israeli author, teacher, and editor
 * Israel Bar (1912–1966), convicted of espionage by Israel in 1961
 * Walter Bar (born 1938), Swiss fencer
 * Shlomo Bar (born 1943), Israeli musician, composer, and social activist
 * Alon Bar (born 1966), Israeli/American filmmaker
 * Sergiu Bar (born 1980), Romanian footballer
 * Zvi Bar (born 1935)
 * Noma Bar (born 1973), Graphic Designer
 * Bar, a patronymic prefix in Aramaic and Hebrew

Punctuation

 * Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter or other grapheme
 * Vertical bar, a punctuation symbol

BAR

 * Austro-Bavarian language, ISO 639-3 code BAR
 * Transport and automotive
 * Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, reporting mark BAR
 * British American Racing, a Formula One constructor
 * California Bureau of Automotive Repair
 * Harvey House Railroad Depot, station code BAR
 * International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field (abandoned), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands
 * Weapons
 * Browning BAR, a semi-automatic rifle produced in Belgium and Japan
 * M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, an American family of automatic rifles and light machine guns

Other

 * Bar (heraldry), an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across the shield
 * Bar Confederation, an 18th-century Polish association
 * Bar mitzvah
 * Bar (form), a cell phone form factor
 * Dowel, pole, or beam used as a support structure
 * A type of gatehouse in city walls of the Middle Ages
 * Medal bar, a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal