"barre" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /bɑː/ [Received-Pronunciation], /bɑɹ/ [General-American], [bɑɹ] [General-American], [bɑ˞] [General-American], /baː/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-bar.ogg , en-uk-baa.ogg Forms: barres [plural]
enPR: bär [General-American] Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ) Etymology: Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|barre}} French barre, {{doublet|en|bar}} Doublet of bar Head templates: {{en-noun}} barre (plural barres)
  1. (ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises. Categories (topical): Ballet Translations (a handrail fixed to a wall): tanko (Finnish), barre [feminine] (French)
    Sense id: en-barre-en-noun-lvdWWy4j Disambiguation of 'a handrail fixed to a wall': 75 25
  2. (music) Short for barre chord. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: barre chord Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-barre-en-noun-tvabmM88 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 45 28 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 15 53 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 8 4 0 4 4 1 4 0 0 2 5 5 6 0 2 0 0 4 5 7 1 5 7 1 8 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 21 50 30 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 24 45 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 20 49 31 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Verb

IPA: /bɑː/ [Received-Pronunciation], /bɑɹ/ [General-American], [bɑɹ] [General-American], [bɑ˞] [General-American], /baː/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-bar.ogg , en-uk-baa.ogg Forms: barres [present, singular, third-person], barring [participle, present], barred [participle, past], barred [past]
enPR: bär [General-American] Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ) Etymology: Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|barre}} French barre, {{doublet|en|bar}} Doublet of bar Head templates: {{en-verb}} barre (third-person singular simple present barres, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)
  1. (music) To form a barre chord on an instrument. Categories (topical): Music Translations (to form a barre chord): bấm ba-rê (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-barre-en-verb-kbPLgrXW Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Inflected forms

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