Bar vs. Rod — What's the Difference?

Legal term or prohibition

Symbol of discipline or authority

A long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon

A fishing rod.

A counter in a pub, restaurant, or cafe across which drinks or refreshments are served

A piston rod.

A barrier or restriction to an action or advance

An often expandable horizontal bar, especially of metal, used to suspend household items such as curtains or towels.

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

A leveling rod.

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

A lightning rod.

The profession of barrister

A divining rod.

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

A measuring stick.

Fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars

One of the horizontal elements in a truss system underneath a rail car, especially a freight car.

Prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something or from going somewhere

A shoot or stem cut from or growing as part of a woody plant.

Mark (something) with bars or stripes

A stick or bundle of sticks or switches used to give punishment by whipping.

Except for

Punishment; correction.

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

A scepter, staff, or wand symbolizing power or authority.

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

Power or dominion, especially of a tyrannical nature

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

A linear measure equal to 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet (5.03 meters). Also called pole2.

A rectangular block of a precious metal.

The square of this measure, equal to 30.25 square yards or 272.25 square feet (25.30 square meters).

See horizontal bar.

(Anatomy) Any of various rod-shaped cells in the retina that respond to dim light. Also called rod cell.

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

(Microbiology) An elongated bacterium; a bacillus.

A standard, expectation, or degree of requirement

(Slang) A pistol or revolver.

Something that impedes or prevents action or progress

Vulgar Slang A penis, especially when erect.

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

A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.

A narrow marking, as a stripe or band.

A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.

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

(fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.

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

A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.

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

An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.

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

A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.

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

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, 4 chain, 2 yards, 2 feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).

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

An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 2 yards.

A court or courtroom.

(archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 4 square yards or 160 acre.

Attorneys considered as a group. Used with the.

A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.

The profession of law. Used with the.

(anatomy) A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.

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

(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.

A measure.

(chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 8 to 4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.

Variant of barre.

(slang) A pistol; a gun.

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

A penis.

An establishment or room having such a counter.

(slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.

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

(ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.

To fasten securely with a long, straight, rigid piece of material

(mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.

To shut in or confine

(rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.

To obstruct or impede; block

(construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.

To keep out; exclude

(transitive) To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.

To prohibit or prevent (someone) from doing something

To penetrate sexually.

To prohibit (an action)

(slang) To hot rod.

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

A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).

To rule out; except

A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.

To mark with stripes or bands.

A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; - called also perch, and pole.

Chiefly British Except for; excluding

A linear measure of 16.5 feet

A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

A long thin implement made of metal or wood

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.

Any rod-shaped bacterium

A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

A square rod of land

A broad shaft, band, or stripe.

Visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light

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

A gangster's pistol

(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.

Slim, straight piece of material

(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.

Tool for angling

(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).

Measuring unit

A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.

Component in machinery

The counter of such premises.

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

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

An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.

An establishment offering cosmetic services.

An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

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

A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.

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

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

The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.

Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.

One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.

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

(music) One of those musical sections.

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

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

The crossbar.

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

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

A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.

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).

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

A city gate, in some British place names.

(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.

(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.

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

(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.

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

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

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

(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

(transitive) To prohibit.

(transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

Except, other than, besides.

(horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A drilling or tamping rod.

A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

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

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.

To except; to exclude by exception.

To cross with one or more stripes or lines.

A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter;

A counter where you can obtain food or drink;

A rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon;

Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;

An obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal;

The act of preventing;

(meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter;

A submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore;

The body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction;

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

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

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

A heating element in an electric fire;

(law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried;

Prevent from entering; keep out;

Render unsuitable for passage;

Expel, as if by official decree;

Secure with, or as if with, bars;

Rigid piece of material used for construction

Establishment serving alcoholic beverages

Unit of pressure

Musical term for a measure

Yes, rods are used in construction for support and tension.

Yes, bars like rebar come in standardized sizes for construction.

It refers to the legal profession or a barrier in a courtroom.

It's a bar of gold often used for investment or currency reserves.

Some rods, like fishing rods, are designed to be flexible.

Yes, to 'bar' can mean to prohibit or block entry.

Fishing, measuring, and certain scientific applications.

Most rods are cylindrical, but they can have different cross-sections.

Yes, bars can be made of various materials, including plastic.

It's a type of rod designed to hold curtains above a window.

Yes, as in "to bar someone from entering."

Historically, yes; a rod is an old unit of length, equal to 5.5 yards.

It's a symbol associated with medicine and healing.

Yes, in terms of practicing law and courtroom designations.

Yes, it refers to a segment of time in a piece of music.