The difference between Bar and Block

When used as nouns, bar means a solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length, whereas block means a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

When used as verbs, bar means to obstruct the passage of (someone or something), whereas block means to fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.

Bar is also preposition with the meaning: except, other than, besides.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bar and Block

  1. Bar as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "The window was protected by steel bars."

  2. Bar as a noun (countable, uncountable, metallurgy):

    A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.

    Examples:

    "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."

  3. Bar as a noun:

    A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

    Examples:

    "'bar of chocolate"

    "'bar of soap"

  4. Bar as a noun:

    A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.

    Examples:

    "a bar of light"

    "a bar of colour"

  5. Bar as a noun:

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

  6. Bar as a noun (typography):

    Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly inclusive of oblique marks such as the slash.

    Examples:

    "hypo pipe strikethrough"

  7. Bar as a noun (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.

  8. Bar as a noun (physics):

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

  9. Bar as a noun:

    A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: barroom ginshop pub q3=British public house tavern Thesaurus:pub"

    "The street was lined with all-night bars."

  10. Bar as a noun:

    The counter of such a premises.

    Examples:

    "Step up to the bar and order a drink."

  11. Bar as a noun:

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

  12. Bar as a noun (by extension, in combinations such as {{m, coffee bar):

    , etc.}} A premises or counter serving any type of beverage.

  13. Bar as a noun:

    An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

  14. Bar as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "a burger bar'"

    "a local fish bar'"

  15. Bar as a noun:

    An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: ban prohibition"

    "The club has lifted its bar on women members."

  16. Bar as a noun:

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

  17. Bar as a noun (programming, whimsical, derived from {{m, fubar):

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

    Examples:

    "Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar."

  18. Bar as a noun (UK, Parliament):

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

  19. Bar as a noun (UK, law):

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

  20. Bar as a noun (US, law):

    "the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.

    Examples:

    "He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before."

  21. Bar as a noun (law, metonym, "the Bar", "the bar"):

    A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.

    Examples:

    "He was called to the bar, he became a [[barrister]]."

  22. Bar as a noun (telecommunications):

    A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.

    Examples:

    "I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert."

  23. Bar as a noun (music):

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

    Examples:

    "synonyms: measure"

  24. Bar as a noun (music):

    One of those musical sections.

  25. Bar as a noun (sports):

    A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault

  26. Bar as a noun (metaphorical):

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

  27. Bar as a noun (football-most codes):

    The crossbar

  28. Bar as a noun (backgammon):

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

  29. Bar as a noun:

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

  30. Bar as a noun:

    A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.

  31. Bar as a noun (geography, nautical, hydrology):

    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).

  32. Bar as a noun (heraldiccharge):

    One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.

  33. Bar as a noun:

    A city gate, in some British place names.

    Examples:

    "Potter's Bar'"

  34. Bar as a noun (mining):

    A drilling or tamping rod.

  35. Bar as a noun (mining):

    A vein or dike crossing a lode.

  36. Bar as a noun (architecture):

    A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

  37. Bar as a noun (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.

  38. Bar as a noun (farriery, in the plural):

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

  1. Bar as a verb (transitive):

    To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

    Examples:

    "Our way was barred by a huge rockfall."

  2. Bar as a verb (transitive):

    To prohibit.

    Examples:

    "I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred."

  3. Bar as a verb (transitive):

    To lock or bolt with a bar.

    Examples:

    "'bar the door"

  4. Bar as a verb:

    To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

  1. Bar as a preposition:

    Except, other than, besides.

    Examples:

    "He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife."

  2. Bar as a preposition (horse racing):

    Examples:

    "Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar."

  1. Bar as a noun:

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

  1. Block as a noun:

    A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

    Examples:

    "a block of ice"

    "a block of stone"

  2. Block as a noun:

    A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.

    Examples:

    "Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution."

  3. Block as a noun:

    A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.

    Examples:

    "I'm going for a walk around the block."

  4. Block as a noun:

    A residential building consisting of flats.

    Examples:

    "a block of flats"

  5. Block as a noun:

    The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

    Examples:

    "The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north."

  6. Block as a noun:

    Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.

    Examples:

    "a [[mental]] block"

    "[[writer's block]]"

  7. Block as a noun (slang):

    The human head.

    Examples:

    "I'll knock your block off!"

  8. Block as a noun:

    A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.

  9. Block as a noun:

    A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.

  10. Block as a noun:

    A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.

    Examples:

    "a block of 100 tickets"

  11. Block as a noun (computing):

    A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).

  12. Block as a noun (programming):

    A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.

  13. Block as a noun (cryptography):

    A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.

  14. Block as a noun (rigging):

    A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example, as part of the rigging of a sailing ship.

  15. Block as a noun (chemistry):

    A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.

  16. Block as a noun:

    Something that prevents something from passing.

    Examples:

    "synonyms barrier blockage obstruction"

    "There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through."

  17. Block as a noun (sports):

    An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).

  18. Block as a noun (cricket):

    A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.

  19. Block as a noun (volleyball):

    A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter's court.

  20. Block as a noun (philately):

    A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.

  21. Block as a noun:

    A section of split logs used as fuel.

  22. Block as a noun (UK):

    Solitary confinement.

  23. Block as a noun:

    A cellblock.

  24. Block as a noun (falconry):

    The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.

  25. Block as a noun (printing, dated):

    A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.

  26. Block as a noun (obsolete):

    A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.

  27. Block as a noun (rail):

    A section of a railroad where the block system is used.

  28. Block as a noun (cricket):

    The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.

  29. Block as a noun (cricket):

    A blockhole.

  30. Block as a noun (cricket):

    The popping crease.

  1. Block as a verb (transitive):

    To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.

    Examples:

    "The pipe is blocked."

  2. Block as a verb (transitive):

    To prevent (something or someone) from passing.

    Examples:

    "You're blocking the road – I can't get through."

  3. Block as a verb (transitive):

    To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).

    Examples:

    "His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss."

  4. Block as a verb (transitive, sports):

    To impede an opponent.

    Examples:

    "He blocked the basketball player's shot."

    "The offensive linemen tried to block the blitz."

  5. Block as a verb (transitive, theater):

    To specify the positions and movements of the actors.

    Examples:

    "It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly."

  6. Block as a verb (transitive, cricket):

    To hit with a block.

  7. Block as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

    To play a block shot.

  8. Block as a verb (transitive):

    To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.

    Examples:

    "I tried to send you a message, but you've blocked me!"

  9. Block as a verb (computing, intransitive):

    To wait.

    Examples:

    "When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable."

  10. Block as a verb (transitive):

    To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

    Examples:

    "I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard."

  11. Block as a verb (transitive):

    To shape or sketch out roughly.

  1. Block as a noun:

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