rebar
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Blend of reinforcing + bar
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rebar (countable and uncountable, plural rebars)
- (countable) A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure.
- 2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 35:
- The floor and walls for Copthall tunnel have already been constructed using formwork into which rebar (reinforcing bar) was placed, and then concrete poured.
- (uncountable) A grid-shaped system of such bars.
- 2020, David Farrier, “Thin Cities”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:
- The hash mark of rebar or the curve of a hubcap will create curious shapes to be decoded; even, perhaps, entire subway trains and lengths of tracks will remain.
Translations[edit]
steel reinforcing bar for concrete
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Verb[edit]
rebar (third-person singular simple present rebars, present participle rebarring, simple past and past participle rebarred)
- (transitive) To reinforce with bars of this kind.
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
rebar (third-person singular simple present rebars, present participle rebarring, simple past and past participle rebarred)
- (transitive) To bar again.
- After allowing the stranger to enter, she rebarred the door.
- (music, transitive) To redistribute the notes of a musical score across the bars, e.g. when changing time signature.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
rēbar
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