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Barren — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bar noun A place that sells alcoholic drinks to be consumed on the premises, or the counter inside it.
  • bullion noun Precious metal, usually gold or silver, held in bulk form such as bars or ingots and valued by weight.
  • ingot noun A solid block of metal, formed by pouring molten metal and letting it cool.

Senses

Barren is used for these senses in English:

  • bar A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
  • bar (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1⁄4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
  • bar (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
  • bar (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
  • bar To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
  • bullion A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
  • ingot A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
  • parallel bars A set of apparatus consisting of two horizontal bars at a small distance apart, upon which acts of swinging and holding and jumping and dips are performed.

bar — full definition

  1. noun A place that sells alcoholic drinks to be consumed on the premises, or the counter inside it.
  2. noun A rigid piece of metal, wood, or similar material, much longer than it is wide.
  3. noun A block-shaped piece of a solid substance, especially soap or chocolate.
  4. noun Something that blocks or prevents progress; an obstacle.
  5. noun The legal profession, or the examination lawyers must pass to practice.
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