Bar Code Data Collection

–noun

1.	a relatively long, evenly shaped piece of some solid substance, as metal or wood, used as a guard or obstruction or for some mechanical purpose: the bars of a cage.

2.	an oblong piece of any solid material: a bar of soap; a candy bar.

3.	the amount of material in a bar.

4.	an ingot, lump, or we b63 dge of gold or silver.

5.	a long ridge of sand, gravel, or other material near or slightly above the surface of the water at or near the mouth of a river or harbor entrance, often constituting an obstruction to navigation.

6.	anything that obstructs, hinders, or impedes; obstacle; barrier: a bar to important legislation.

7.	a counter or place where beverages, esp. liquors, or light meals are served to customers: a snack bar; a milk bar.

8.	a barroom or tavern.

9.	(in a home) a counter, small wagon, or similar piece of furniture for serving food or beverages: a breakfast bar.

10.	the legal profession.

11.	the practicing members of the legal profession in a given community.

12.	any tribunal: the bar of public opinion.

13.	a band or strip: a bar of light.

14.	a railing in a courtroom separating the general public from the part of the room occupied by the judges, jury, attorneys, etc.

15.	a crowbar.

16.	Music. a. Also called bar line. the line marking the division between two measures of music. b. double bar. c. the unit of music contained between two bar lines; measure.

17.	Ballet. barre.

18.	Law. a. an objection that nullifies an action or claim. b. a stoppage or defeat of an alleged right of action.

19.	Typography. a horizontal stroke of a type character, as of an A, H, t, and sometimes e.

20.	Archite 1056 cture. (in tracery) a relatively long and slender upright of stone treated as a colonette or molded.

21.	Building Trades. a. an iron or steel shape: I-bar. b. a muntin.

22.	Military. one of a pair of metal or cloth insignia worn by certain commissioned officers.

23.	bars, the transverse ridges on the roof of the mouth of a horse.

24.	a space between the molar and canine teeth of a horse into which the bit is fitted.

25.	(in a bridle) the mouthpiece connecting the cheeks.

26.	bride 2 (def. 1).

27.	Heraldry. a horizontal band, narrower than a fess, that crosses the field of an escutcheon.

28.	Obsolete. a gateway capable of being barred.

–verb (used with object)

29.	to equip or fasten with a bar or bars: Bar the door before retiring for the night.

30.	to block by or as if by bars: The police barred the exits in an attempt to prevent the thief's escape.

31.	to prevent or hinder: They barred her entrance to the club.

32.	to exclude or except: He was barred from membership because of his reputation.

33.	to mark with bars, stripes, or bands.

–preposition

34.	except; omitting; but: bar none.

—Idioms

35.	at bar, Law. a. before the court and being tried: a case at bar. b. before all the judges of a court: a trial at bar.

36.	behind bars, in jail: We wanted the criminal behind bars.

–noun

1.	a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message: Morse code.

2.	a system used for brevity or secrecy of communication, in which arbitrarily chosen words, letters, or symbols are assigned definite meanings.

3.

any set of standards set forth and enforced by a local government agency for the protection of public safety, health, 68d etc., as in the structural safety of buildings (building code), health requirements for plumbing, ventilation, etc. (sanitary or health code), and the specifications for fire escapes or exits (fire code).

4.	a systematically arranged collection or compendium of laws, rules, or regulations.

5.	any authoritative, general, systematic, and written statement of the legal rules and principles applicable in a given legal order to one or more broad areas of life.

6.	a word, letter, number, or other symbol used in a code system to mark, represent, or identify something: The code on the label shows the date of manufacture.

7.	Computers. the symbolic arrangement of statements or instructions in a computer program in which letters, digits, etc. are represented as binary numbers; the set of instructions in such a program: That program took 3000 lines of code. Compare ASCII, object code, source code.

8.	any system or collection of rules and regulations: a gentleman's code of behavior.

9.	Medicine/Medical. a directive or alert to a hospital team assigned to emergency resuscitation of patients.

10.	Genetics. genetic code.

11.

Linguistics. a. the system of rules shared by the participants in an act of communication, making possible the transmission and interpretation of messages. b. (in sociolinguistic theory) one of two distinct styles of language use that differ in degree of explicitness and are sometimes thought to be correlated with differences in social class. Compare elaborated code, restricted code.

–verb (used with object)

12.	to translate (a message) into a code; encode.

13.	to arrange or enter (laws or statutes) in a code.

14.	Computers. to translate (a program) into language that can be communicated to the computer.

–verb (used without object)

15.	Genetics. to specify the amino acid sequence of a protein by the sequence of nucleotides comprising the gene for that protein: a gene that codes for the production of insulin.

–noun

1.	a pl. of datum.

2.	(used with a plural verb) individual facts, statistics, or items of information: These data represent the results of our analyses. Data are entered by terminal for immediate processing by the computer.

3.	(used with a singular verb) a body of facts; information: Additional data is available from the president of the firm.

–noun

1.	the act of collecting.

2.	something that is collected; a group of objects or an amount of material accumulated in one location, esp. for some purpose or as a result of some process: a stamp collection; a collection of unclaimed hats in the checkroom; a collection of books on Churchill.

3.	the works of art constituting the holdings of an art museum: a history of the museum and of the collection.

4.	the gathered or exhibited works of a single painter, sculptor, etc.: an excellent Picasso collection.

5.	collections, the various holdings of an art museum organized by category, as painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, or film: the director of the collections.

6.	the clothes or other items produced by a designer, esp. for a seasonal line: the spring collection.

7.	a sum of money collected, esp. for charity or church use 3e8 .

8.	Manège. act of bringing or coming into a collected attitude.