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bar, offshore: see beach beach, a gently sloping zone where deposits of unconsolidated sediments are subject to wave action at the shore of an ocean or lake. Most of the sediment making up a beach is supplied by rivers or by the erosion of highlands adjacent to the coast.
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bar
a cgs unit of pressure equal to 106 dynes per square centimetre. 1 bar is equivalent to 105 newtons per square metre

Bar the
1. (in England and elsewhere) barristers collectively
2. US the legal profession collectively
3. be called to or go to the Bar Brit to become a barrister
4. be called within the Bar Brit to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel

1.(programming, convention)bar - /bar/ The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz. E.g. "Suppose function FOO calls functions BAR..."
2.bar - Often appended to foo to produce foobar.


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1) Sheriff's deputies in Lancaster block off Sunny Lane and Avenue K-6 as they search for a robber.
We wanted something that would block off an entire corridor and be easy and quick to set up," said Rita Wilson, the hospital's infection control coordinator, noting that permanent construction was rejected as too expensive and difficult.
The 10,400 s/f building with an attached parking garage is located one block off the ocean and some tenants include ColdStone Creamery, a travel agency, and an art gallery.
 
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