rebar

English

Etymology 1

Blend of reinforcing +‎ bar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiː.bɑː(ɹ)/

Noun

rebar (countable and uncountable, plural rebars)

1. (countable) A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure.
2. (uncountable) A grid-shaped system of such bars.

Translations

steel reinforcing bar for concrete

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋼筋／钢筋 (zh) (gāngjīn), 钢筋 (zh) (gāngjīn)

• Czech: roxor m (informal)
• Dutch: wapening (nl) f
• Finnish: harjateräs (fi) (bar), raudoitus (fi) (grid)
• French: fer à béton m, barre d’armature f
• German: Bewehrungsstab m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: kambstál n, steypustyrktarstál n
• Indonesian: baja tulangan beton
• Japanese: 鉄筋 (tekkin)
• Russian: армату́ра (ru) f (armatúra), армату́рный прут m (armatúrnyj prut)
• Swedish: armeringsstång c
• Thai: เหล็กเส้น (lèk-sên)

Etymology 2

re- +‎ bar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈbɑː(ɹ)/

Verb

rebar (third-person singular simple present rebars, present participle rebarring, simple past and past participle rebarred)

1. (transitive) To bar again.

   After allowing the stranger to enter, she rebarred the door.

2. (music, transitive) To redistribute the notes of a musical score across the bars, e.g. when changing time signature.

Anagrams

• Barre, Berra, Raber, aberr, barer, barre

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) rēbar

1. first-person singular imperfect active indicative of reor