The difference between Bar and Pipe

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 pipe means a wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.

When used as verbs, bar means to obstruct the passage of (someone or something), whereas pipe means to play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

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

check bellow for the other definitions of Bar and Pipe

  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. Pipe as a noun (musical instrument):

    A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. The key or sound of the voice. A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.

  2. Pipe as a noun (especially in, _, informal, _, contexts):

    A rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. # A water pipe. #* |year=2000|page=115|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmMbBp4LkTsC&pg=PA115|isbn=978-1-58321-044-4|passage=Corrosion of pipes leads to the release of soluble iron and lead. Corrosion control can be accomplished in distribution systems by adding compounds that form a protective film on the pipe surface, thereby providing a barrier between the water and the pipe. Although these corrosion inhibitors limit metal solubility or reduce corrosion, deterioration of the pipe surface is not entirely prevented.}} A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe. A man's penis.

    Examples:

    "A burst pipe flooded my bathroom."

  3. Pipe as a noun:

    A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.

  4. Pipe as a noun (geology):

    Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping. A type of pasta similar to macaroni. A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia. One of the goalposts of the goal. An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore. An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.

  5. Pipe as a noun (computing):

    A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input. A data backbone, or broadband Internet access. The character .

    Examples:

    "A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection."

  6. Pipe as a noun (smoking):

    A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe. The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.

  1. Pipe as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

  2. Pipe as a verb (intransitive):

    To shout loudly and at high pitch.

  3. Pipe as a verb (intransitive):

    To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

  4. Pipe as a verb (intransitive, metallurgy):

    Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.

  5. Pipe as a verb (transitive):

    To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.

  6. Pipe as a verb (transitive):

    To install or configure with pipes.

  7. Pipe as a verb (transitive):

    To dab moisture away from.

  8. Pipe as a verb (transitive, figuratively):

    To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.

  9. Pipe as a verb (transitive, computing, chiefly, [[Unix]]):

    To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character () at the command line.

  10. Pipe as a verb (transitive, cooking):

    To create or decorate with piping (icing).

    Examples:

    "to pipe flowers on to a cupcake"

  11. Pipe as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.

  12. Pipe as a verb (transitive, slang, dated):

    To see.

    Examples:

    "synonyms Thesaurus:see"

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