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barra — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • measure verb To find the size, amount, or degree of something using an instrument or standard.

Senses

barra is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • measure (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar. [from 17th c.]

measure — full definition

  1. verb To find the size, amount, or degree of something using an instrument or standard.
  2. noun A standard unit or amount used for comparison or quantity.
  3. noun An action taken to achieve a particular goal, especially in an official or legal context.

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