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BARS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights
Synonyms:
bars; parallel bars
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bars" is a kind of...):
exerciser; gymnastic apparatus (sports equipment used in gymnastic exercises)
Meronyms (parts of "bars"):
bar (a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bars"):
uneven bars; uneven parallel bars (a pair of parallel bars set at different heights; used in women's gymnastics)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb bar
Context examples:
Two of the bars, slung in a rope's end, made a good load for a grown man—one that he was glad to walk slowly with.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A SI derived unit of pressure equivalent to 1000 newtons per square meter or 10000 bars or to 0.145 pound per square inch.
(Kilopascal, NCI Thesaurus)
A SI derived unit of pressure equivalent to one newton per square meter or 10 bars or to 1.45x10E-4 pounds per square inch.
(Pascal, NCI Thesaurus)
I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason I twisted three of the iron bars together, bending the extremities into a hook.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Chopping down young saplings, he made them cross-bars of a scaffold by lashing them high up to the trunks of standing trees.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
More tormentors, Buck decided, for they were evil-looking creatures, ragged and unkempt; and he stormed and raged at them through the bars.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"Couldn't you do it now?" asked Laurie, so suggestively that Jo shut the gate in his face with inhospitable haste, and called through the bars, "Go away, Teddy, I'm busy."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Fanny, quite surprised, endeavoured to shew herself mistress of the room by her civilities, and looked at the bright bars of her empty grate with concern.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The NMDA receptors did this by amplifying the cells’ responses to the bars in a process called multiplicative scaling.
(Eye cells may use math to detect motion, NIH)
