bars
See also: Bars, BARS, bärs, bårs, Bärs, and bārs
English
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bars (4)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɑː(ɹ)z/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Noun
bars
- plural of bar
Noun
bars pl (plural only)
- (sports) An apparatus on which certain gymnastics are performed, especially parallel bars.
- (gymnastics) Ellipsis of uneven bars.
- (gymnastics) Ellipsis of parallel bars.
- (sports) An event in gymnastics using bars.
- (slang) Well-constructed rap lyrics.
- 2021, Jehnie I. Burns, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation (page 138)
- […] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats.
- '2022, Shanté Paradigm Smalls, Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City (page 89)
- Here was an emcee not only capable of spitting “bars” (good rhymes), but thoughtfully creative in her meditation on Black heterosexual relations.
- 2021, Jehnie I. Burns, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation (page 138)
Derived terms
- (gymnastics event): asymmetric bars, parallel bars, uneven bars
Translations
gymnastics event
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grating, grill, grid
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References
- bars at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Gymnastics
Verb
bars
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bar
Anagrams
- ABRs, ARBs, BRAS, arbs, bras, sbar
Catalan
Noun
bars
- plural of bar
Crimean Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Noun
bars
- beard
- 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter
- Bars. Barba.
- 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter
Danish
Noun
bars c
- indefinite genitive singular of bar
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑrs/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: bars
- Rhymes: -ɑrs
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Low German [Term?].
Adjective
bars (comparative barser, superlative meest bars or barst)
- stern, strict
Inflection
Inflection of bars | ||||
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uninflected | bars | |||
inflected | barse | |||
comparative | barser | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | bars | barser | het barst het barste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | barse | barsere | barste |
n. sing. | bars | barser | barste | |
plural | barse | barsere | barste | |
definite | barse | barsere | barste | |
partitive | bars | barsers | — |
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
bars
- Plural form of bar
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aʁ
Noun
bars m
- plural of bar
Anagrams
- bras
Latvian
Noun
bars m (1st declension)
- crowd
- multitude
- crush
- throng
- brood (a group of young birds)
- herd
- pod (a group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami)
- plump (a knot or cluster)
- be-in
Declension
Declension of bars (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | bars | bari |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | baru | barus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | bara | baru |
dative (datīvs) | baram | bariem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | baru | bariem |
locative (lokatīvs) | barā | baros |
vocative (vokatīvs) | bar | bari |
Middle English
Noun
bars
- Alternative form of bace
Swedish
Noun
bars
- indefinite genitive singular of bar.
Verb
bars
- past tense passive of bära.