Decrease and Bar

decrease

noun

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

bar

noun

A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
- usage: "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar"
- synonyms: barroom, saloon, ginmill, taproom
A counter where you can obtain food or drink.
- usage: "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar"
A rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon.
- usage: "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape"
Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats.
- usage: "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song"
- synonyms: measure
An obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal.
- usage: "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar"
The act of preventing.
- usage: "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"
- synonyms: prevention
Meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter. (
- usage: "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter"
A submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore.
- usage: "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river"
The body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.
- usage: "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey"
- synonyms: legal profession, legal community
A narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background.
- usage: "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave"
- synonyms: stripe, streak
A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax. )
- usage: "a bar of chocolate"
- synonyms: cake
A portable. 30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War.
- synonyms: Browning automatic rifle
A horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises.
A heating element in an electric fire.
- usage: "an electric fire with three bars"
Law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried. (
- usage: "spectators were not allowed past the bar"

verb

Prevent from entering; keep out.
- usage: "He was barred from membership in the club"
- synonyms: debar, exclude
Render unsuitable for passage.
- usage: "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
- synonyms: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up
Expel, as if by official decree.
- usage: "he was banished from his own country"
- synonyms: banish, relegate
Secure with, or as if with, bars.
- usage: "He barred the door"

(n.) To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.
(n.) Any railing that divides a room or office or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
(n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
(n.) A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.
(n.) A broad shaft or band or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.
(n.) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
(n.) To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
(n.) A bank of sand, gravel or other matter, especially at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
(n.) 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 center of the sole.
(n.) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial or sentence.
(n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
(n.) Anything which obstructs, hinders or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
(n.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
(n.) A drilling or tamping rod.
(n.) Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
(n.) An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.
(n.) To except; to exclude by exception.
(n.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
(n.) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.
(n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
(n.) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(n.) To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
(n.) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.
(n.) A piece of wood, metal or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(DoD) A submerged or emerged embankment of sand, gravel, or mud created on the sea floor in shallow water by waves and currents. A bar may be composed of mollusk shells.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

Bar is a masculine given name

Name Meaning: Boar
Name Origin: Anglo-Saxon

Slang for one million dollars.

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