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Bar vs. Pub

The main difference between bar and pub is that the bar is a retail business establishment which serves alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises and a pub is typically just a place for locals to hang out, drink, and eat.

Key Differences

The term ‘bar’ derives from the counter where the bartender serves the drinks to the public while the term ‘Pub’ derives from a public house.
Harlon Moss
Jun 24, 2019
The bar serves a variety of alcohol such as wine, gin, beer, rum, cocktails, mocktails with very few food options and appetizers on the other hand pub offer drinks such as beer and wine and also offer a wide range of food.
Janet White
Jun 24, 2019
A bar is the retail business establishments that serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, whereas a pub is a place for locals to hang out, drink, and eat.
The bar sells alcoholic drinks. It also plays loud music, and has a dance floor on the flip side pubs serves alcoholic drinks in a serene atmosphere with soul-soothing music and food.
The common crowd of the bar is of more young and vibrant conversely the common crowd of the pub is more mature.

Comparison Chart

Definition

A place that serves alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises
A place for locals to hang out, drink, and eat
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Owner

Bar manager or privately owned
Publican, Landlord or the Brewery

Clientele

Younger
Mature

Servers

Variety of drinks with fewer food options
Variety of drinks with more food options
Harlon Moss
Jun 24, 2019

Kind of Music

Loud
Soft
Harlon Moss
Jun 24, 2019

Bar and Pub Definitions

Bar

A relatively long, straight, rigid piece of solid material used as a fastener, support, barrier, or structural or mechanical member.

Pub

A place of business serving beer or other alcoholic drinks and often basic meals.
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Bar

A solid oblong block of a substance or combination of ingredients, such as soap or candy.

Pub

A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.

Bar

A usually rectangular slice of any of various flat baked confections that are typically dense in texture.

Pub

A public server.

Bar

A rectangular block of a precious metal.

Pub

Clipping of publication
Registered pubs
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Bar

See horizontal bar.

Pub

To go to one or more public houses.

Bar

A horizontal rod that marks the height to be cleared in high jumping or pole vaulting.

Pub

To publish

Bar

A standard, expectation, or degree of requirement
A leader whose example set a high bar for others.

Pub

Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals

Bar

Something that impedes or prevents action or progress
A poor education was a bar to his ambitions.

Bar

A ridge, as of sand or gravel, on a shore or streambed, that is formed by the action of tides or currents.

Bar

A narrow marking, as a stripe or band.

Bar

A narrow metal or embroidered strip worn on a military uniform indicating rank or service.

Bar

Chiefly British A small insignia worn on a military decoration indicating that it has been awarded an additional time.

Bar

(Heraldry) A pair of horizontal parallel lines drawn across a shield.

Bar

The nullification, defeat, or prevention of a claim or action.

Bar

The process by which nullification, defeat, or prevention is achieved.

Bar

The railing in a courtroom separating the participants in a legal proceeding from the spectators.

Bar

A court or courtroom.

Bar

Attorneys considered as a group. Used with the.

Bar

The profession of law. Used with the.

Bar

A vertical line drawn through a staff to mark off a measure.

Bar

A measure.

Bar

Variant of barre.

Bar

A counter at which drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food, are served.

Bar

An establishment or room having such a counter.

Bar

A unit of pressure equal to one million (106) dynes per square centimeter.

Bar

To fasten securely with a long, straight, rigid piece of material
Barred the gate.

Bar

To shut in or confine
Barred themselves in the basement.

Bar

To obstruct or impede; block
Barred the access route.

Bar

To keep out; exclude
Tourists are barred from this room.

Bar

To prohibit or prevent (someone) from doing something
Failing the eye exam barred him from driving.

Bar

To prohibit (an action)
The state bars the dumping of waste in the river.

Bar

(Law) To nullify, defeat, or prevent (a claim or action).

Bar

To rule out; except
Can we bar the possibility of foul play?.

Bar

To mark with stripes or bands.

Bar

Chiefly British Except for; excluding
This was your best performance, bar none.

Bar

A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
The window was protected by steel bars.

Bar

A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.

Bar

A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
Bar of chocolate
Bar of soap

Bar

A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
A bar of light
A bar of colour

Bar

A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.

Bar

(typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨{{!}}⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly including oblique marks such as the slash.

Bar

(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.

Bar

(physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).

Bar

A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
The street was lined with all-night bars.

Bar

The counter of such premises.
Step up to the bar and order a drink.

Bar

A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.

Bar

, juice bar, etc.}} Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.

Bar

An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

Bar

An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
A burger bar
A local fish bar

Bar

An establishment offering cosmetic services.
A nail bar; a brow bar

Bar

An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
The club has lifted its bar on women members.

Bar

Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.

Bar

A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux.

Bar

A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.

Bar

The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.

Bar

The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.

Bar

Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
He was called to the bar, he became a barrister.

Bar

One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.

Bar

(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.

Bar

(music) One of those musical sections.

Bar

(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.

Bar

(metaphorical) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.

Bar

The crossbar.

Bar

(backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.

Bar

An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.

Bar

A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.

Bar

A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).

Bar

(heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.

Bar

A city gate, in some British place names.

Bar

(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.

Bar

(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.

Bar

(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

Bar

(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.

Bar

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

Bar

(slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.

Bar

A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Bar

(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.

Bar

(transitive) To prohibit.
I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.

Bar

(transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
Bar the door

Bar

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

Bar

Except, other than, besides.
He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.

Bar

(horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.

Bar

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.
Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood.

Bar

An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.

Bar

Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
Must I new bars to my own joy create?

Bar

A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

Bar

Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.

Bar

The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.

Bar

Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.

Bar

A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

Bar

An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

Bar

A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.

Bar

A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

Bar

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

Bar

A drilling or tamping rod.

Bar

A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

Bar

To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.

Bar

To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; - sometimes with up.
He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon.

Bar

To except; to exclude by exception.
Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge meBy what we do to-night.

Bar

To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly.

Bar

A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter;
He drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar

Bar

A counter where you can obtain food or drink;
He bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar

Bar

A rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon;
There were bars in the windows to prevent escape

Bar

Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;
The orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song

Bar

An obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal;
It was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar

Bar

The act of preventing;
There was no bar against leaving
Money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza

Bar

(meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter;
Unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter

Bar

A submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore;
The boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river

Bar

The body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction;
He was admitted to the bar in New Jersey

Bar

A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax);
A bar of chocolate

Bar

A portable .30 caliber magazine-fed automatic rifle operated by gas pressure; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War

Bar

A horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises

Bar

A heating element in an electric fire;
An electric fire with three bars

Bar

(law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried;
Spectators were not allowed past the bar

Bar

Prevent from entering; keep out;
He was barred from membership in the club

Bar

Render unsuitable for passage;
Block the way
Barricade the streets
Stop the busy road

Bar

Expel, as if by official decree;
He was banished from his own country

Bar

Secure with, or as if with, bars;
He barred the door

Bar vs. Pub

A bar is the retail business establishments that serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. A pub is a place for locals to hang out, drink, and eat. The bar is sold with alcoholic drinks. It also plays loud music and has a dance floor. Pubs serves alcoholic drinks in a serene atmosphere with soul-soothing music and food. The bar is more for people who love drinking, and want little or no food. Pubs offer a wide variety of snacks to accompany the drinks. The common crowd of the bar is of more young and vibrant. The common crowd of the pub is more mature. The term ‘bar’ derives from the counter where the bartender serves the drinks to the public. The term ‘Pub’ derives from a public house. It is a drinking establishment associated with the culture of Ireland, Australia, Britain, Newfoundland, and New Zealand. The bar serves a variety of alcohol such as wine, gin, beer, rum, cocktails, and mocktails. The menu it offers is limited with few appetizers and food options. The pub also opens and offer drinks such as beer and wine. Most pubs offer a range of wines, beers, spirits, and soft drinks. They also offer a wide range of food, so it is also called as a restaurant. Families and friends come there to eat, drink and have a good time. Many star hotels provide a small area for the bar, on the ground floor, either in or near the lobby. Pubs are mainly located close to a working location, making them more attractive.

What is the Bar?

A bar is a place for people to get drunk and have a good time. The term ‘bar’ derives from the counter where the bartender serves the drinks to the public. The bar also entertains such as dancers, strippers, live bands, DJs, etc. That is the reason that bars largely attracts the younger crowd. Although, a bar has an age limit of 18 or 21 depending on the country’s regulations. Children are not allowed to come to the bars. Many bars also have a happy hour where they offer discounts on drinks. The bar is most commonly associated with bold, loud, and bright ambiance. A bar is often a counter inside a pub. It allows the customers to play darts, pool, and billiards. The bar serves a variety of alcohol such as wine, gin, beer, rum, cocktails, and mocktails. The are some bars that also have lounges. These lounges offer a comfortable place to relax and gossip. Bars do not have the accommodation facility like pubs. The things like the name of the bar, interiors, lightings, a unique list of drinks, and other elements give the bar extra appeal to attract the clients. A bar with a dance floor is mostly popular among young people. There are different kinds of bars with different themes, such as executive lounge bars and retro.

Types

  • Biker Bars
  • Gay Bars
  • Women’s Bars
  • Sports Bars
  • Karaoke Bars
  • Cop Bars
  • College Bars

What is Pub?

A pub can be dated back to Roman taverns, that were known as Alehouses. The clients of pubs mostly include locals or regulars that come to relax and unwind after work. The pub takes its name from “public house,” a type of establishment with its origin in the culture of countries like Britain, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. The atmosphere of a pub is cozy and more relaxed. Along with the drinks, the pub also offers a wide range of food, so it is also called as a restaurant. People generally go to pubs for having a few drinks and quick bites with a familiar circle of friends. They find it the best place for having quiet or sometimes raucous conversations in between. The pub also offers darts, pool, billiards, foosball, and soothing music to entertain its customers. A pub has a more home-like feeling compared to a bar. There are themed pubs for catering to a specific clientele. Due to its relaxed atmosphere with soft music, the pub is usually attracted by the mature people the most. Some of the pubs also allow room for lodging.

Types

  • Irish Pubs
  • Strip Pubs
  • Rock Pubs
  • Biker Pubs

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