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Bar vs. Club — What's the Difference?

Bar vs. Club — What's the Difference?

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Bar

A long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon
Bars on the windows
An iron bar

Club

An association dedicated to a particular interest or activity
I belong to a photographic club
The club secretary

Bar

A counter in a pub, restaurant, or cafe across which drinks or refreshments are served
Standing at the bar

Club

An organization constituted to play matches in a particular sport
A football club

Bar

A barrier or restriction to an action or advance
Political differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship
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Club

A nightclub playing fashionable dance music
The club scene

Bar

Any of the short sections or measures, typically of equal time value, into which a piece of music is divided, shown on a score by vertical lines across the stave
The opening bars of the first hymn

Club

A heavy stick with a thick end, used as a weapon
They beat him with a wooden club

Bar

A partition in a court room, now usually notional, beyond which most people may not pass and at which an accused person stands
The prisoner at the bar

Club

One of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a black trefoil.

Bar

The profession of barrister
His dismissal from the Singapore Bar

Club

Combine with others so as to collect a sum of money for a particular purpose
Friends and colleagues clubbed together to buy him a present

Bar

A unit of pressure equivalent to a hundred thousand newtons per square metre or approximately one atmosphere.

Club

Go out to nightclubs
She enjoys going clubbing in Oxford

Bar

Fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars
She bolted and barred the door

Club

Beat (a person or animal) with a club or similar implement
The islanders clubbed whales to death

Bar

Prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something or from going somewhere
Journalists had been barred from covering the elections

Club

A stout heavy stick, usually thicker at one end, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.

Bar

Mark (something) with bars or stripes
His face was barred with light

Club

An implement used in some games to drive a ball, especially a stick with a protruding head used in golf.

Bar

Except for
His kids were all gone now, bar one

Club

Something resembling a club.

Bar

A relatively long, straight, rigid piece of solid material used as a fastener, support, barrier, or structural or mechanical member.

Club

A black figure shaped like a trefoil or clover leaf on certain playing cards.

Bar

A solid oblong block of a substance or combination of ingredients, such as soap or candy.

Club

A playing card with this figure.

Bar

A usually rectangular slice of any of various flat baked confections that are typically dense in texture.

Club

Clubs (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

Bar

A rectangular block of a precious metal.

Club

A group of people organized for a common purpose, especially a group that meets regularly
A garden club.

Bar

See horizontal bar.

Club

The building, room, or other facility used for the meetings of an organized group.

Bar

A horizontal rod that marks the height to be cleared in high jumping or pole vaulting.

Club

(Sports) An athletic team or organization.

Bar

A standard, expectation, or degree of requirement
A leader whose example set a high bar for others.

Club

A nightclub.

Bar

Something that impedes or prevents action or progress
A poor education was a bar to his ambitions.

Club

To strike or beat with a club or similar implement.

Bar

A ridge, as of sand or gravel, on a shore or streambed, that is formed by the action of tides or currents.

Club

To use (a firearm) as a club by holding the barrel and hitting with the butt end.

Bar

A narrow marking, as a stripe or band.

Club

To gather or combine (hair, for example) into a clublike mass.

Bar

A narrow metal or embroidered strip worn on a military uniform indicating rank or service.

Club

To contribute (money or resources) to a joint or common purpose.

Bar

Chiefly British A small insignia worn on a military decoration indicating that it has been awarded an additional time.

Club

To join or combine for a common purpose; form a club.

Bar

(Heraldry) A pair of horizontal parallel lines drawn across a shield.

Club

To go to or frequent nightclubs
Was out all night clubbing.

Bar

The nullification, defeat, or prevention of a claim or action.

Club

An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.

Bar

The process by which nullification, defeat, or prevention is achieved.

Club

(archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.

Bar

The railing in a courtroom separating the participants in a legal proceeding from the spectators.

Club

A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.

Bar

A court or courtroom.

Club

An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.

Bar

Attorneys considered as a group. Used with the.

Club

A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.

Bar

The profession of law. Used with the.

Club

An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.

Bar

A vertical line drawn through a staff to mark off a measure.

Club

A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.

Bar

A measure.

Club

A playing card marked with such a symbol.
I've got only one club in my hand.

Bar

Variant of barre.

Club

(humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
You also hate Night Court?
Join the club.
Michael stood you up?
Welcome to the club.

Bar

A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.

Club

A club sandwich.

Bar

An establishment or room having such a counter.

Club

The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.

Bar

A unit of pressure equal to one million (106) dynes per square centimeter.

Club

(transitive) To hit with a club.
He clubbed the poor dog.

Bar

To fasten securely with a long, straight, rigid piece of material
Barred the gate.

Club

(intransitive) To join together to form a group.

Bar

To shut in or confine
Barred themselves in the basement.

Club

To combine into a club-shaped mass.
A medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes

Bar

To obstruct or impede; block
Barred the access route.

Club

(intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
We went clubbing in Ibiza.
When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.

Bar

To keep out; exclude
Tourists are barred from this room.

Club

(intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.

Bar

To prohibit or prevent (someone) from doing something
Failing the eye exam barred him from driving.

Club

(transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
To club the expense

Bar

To prohibit (an action)
The state bars the dumping of waste in the river.

Club

(nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

Bar

(Law) To nullify, defeat, or prevent (a claim or action).

Club

(military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

Bar

To rule out; except
Can we bar the possibility of foul play?.

Club

(transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
To club exertions

Bar

To mark with stripes or bands.

Club

To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

Bar

Chiefly British Except for; excluding
This was your best performance, bar none.

Club

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded with the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs;Rome and her rats are at the point of battle.

Bar

A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
The window was protected by steel bars.

Club

Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

Bar

A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.

Club

An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.
They talkedAt wine, in clubs, of art, of politics.
He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club.

Bar

A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
Bar of chocolate
Bar of soap

Club

A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
They laid down the club.
We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club.

Bar

A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
A bar of light
A bar of colour

Club

To beat with a club.

Bar

A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.

Club

To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column.

Bar

(typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨{{!}}⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly including oblique marks such as the slash.

Club

To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.

Bar

(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.

Club

To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.

Bar

(physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).

Club

To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the streamOf fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.

Bar

A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
The street was lined with all-night bars.

Club

To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
The owl, the raven, and the bat,Clubbed for a feather to his hat.

Bar

The counter of such premises.
Step up to the bar and order a drink.

Club

To drift in a current with an anchor out.

Bar

A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.

Club

A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together;
Each club played six home games with teams in its own division

Bar

, juice bar, etc.}} Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.

Club

A formal association of people with similar interests;
He joined a golf club
They formed a small lunch society
Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today

Bar

An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

Club

Stout stick that is larger at one end;
He carried a club in self defense
He felt as if he had been hit with a club

Bar

An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
A burger bar
A local fish bar

Club

A building occupied by a club;
The clubhouse needed a new roof

Bar

An establishment offering cosmetic services.
A nail bar; a brow bar

Club

Golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball

Bar

An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
The club has lifted its bar on women members.

Club

A playing card in the minor suit of clubs (having one or more black trefoils on it);
He led a small club
Clubs were trumps

Bar

Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.

Club

A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink;
Don't expect a good meal at a cabaret
The gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night
He played the drums at a jazz club

Bar

A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux.

Club

Unite with a common purpose;
The two men clubbed together

Bar

A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.

Club

Gather and spend time together;
They always club together

Bar

The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.

Club

Strike with a club or a bludgeon

Bar

The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.

Bar

Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
He was called to the bar, he became a barrister.

Bar

One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.

Bar

(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.

Bar

(music) One of those musical sections.

Bar

(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.

Bar

(metaphorical) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.

Bar

The crossbar.

Bar

(backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.

Bar

An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.

Bar

A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.

Bar

A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).

Bar

(heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.

Bar

A city gate, in some British place names.

Bar

(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.

Bar

(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.

Bar

(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

Bar

(farriery) 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 centre of the sole.

Bar

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

Bar

(slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.

Bar

A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Bar

(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.

Bar

(transitive) To prohibit.
I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.

Bar

(transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
Bar the door

Bar

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

Bar

Except, other than, besides.
He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.

Bar

(horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.

Bar

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.
Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood.

Bar

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.

Bar

Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
Must I new bars to my own joy create?

Bar

A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

Bar

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.

Bar

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.

Bar

Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.

Bar

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.

Bar

An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

Bar

A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.

Bar

A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

Bar

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

Bar

A drilling or tamping rod.

Bar

A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

Bar

To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.

Bar

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.
He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon.

Bar

To except; to exclude by exception.
Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge meBy what we do to-night.

Bar

To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly.

Bar

A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter;
He drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar

Bar

A counter where you can obtain food or drink;
He bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar

Bar

A rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon;
There were bars in the windows to prevent escape

Bar

Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;
The orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song

Bar

An obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal;
It was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar

Bar

The act of preventing;
There was no bar against leaving
Money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza

Bar

(meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter;
Unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter

Bar

A submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore;
The boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river

Bar

The body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction;
He was admitted to the bar in New Jersey

Bar

A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax);
A bar of chocolate

Bar

A portable .30 caliber magazine-fed automatic rifle operated by gas pressure; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War

Bar

A horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises

Bar

A heating element in an electric fire;
An electric fire with three bars

Bar

(law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried;
Spectators were not allowed past the bar

Bar

Prevent from entering; keep out;
He was barred from membership in the club

Bar

Render unsuitable for passage;
Block the way
Barricade the streets
Stop the busy road

Bar

Expel, as if by official decree;
He was banished from his own country

Bar

Secure with, or as if with, bars;
He barred the door

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