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bar·rel
(băr′əl)n.
1. A large cylindrical container, usually made of staves bound together with hoops, with a flat top and bottom of equal diameter.
2. The quantity that a barrel with a given or standard capacity will hold.
3. Abbr. bar. or bbl. or bl. Any of various units of volume or capacity. In the US Customary System it varies, as a liquid measure, from 31 to 42 gallons (117 to 159 liters) as established by law or usage.
4. A cylindrical or hollow part, especially:
a. The thicker portion of a baseball bat, from which the most powerful hits are struck.
b. The cylindrical part of a firearm through which the bullet travels.
c. A cylinder that contains a movable piston.
d. The drum of a capstan.
e. The cylinder within the mechanism of a timepiece that contains the mainspring.
5. The trunk of a quadruped animal, such as a horse or cow.
6. The tubular space inside a wave when it is breaking.
7. Informal A large quantity: a barrel of fun.
8. Slang An act or instance of moving rapidly, often recklessly, in a motor vehicle.
adj.
Resembling or similar to a barrel, as in shape: a barrel chest; barrel hips.
v. bar·reled, bar·rel·ing, bar·rels or bar·relled or bar·rel·ling
v.tr.
To put or pack in a barrel.
v.intr. Informal
Idioms: To move or progress rapidly: "That the European Union barreled ahead was not surprising" (Richard W. Stevenson).
on the barrel/barrelhead
Granting, giving, or requesting no credit: paid cash on the barrel for the car.
over a barrel
In a very awkward position from which extrication is difficult: During the negotiations the opposing faction had us over a barrel.
[Middle English barel, from Old French baril.]
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barrel
(ˈbærəl)n
1. a cylindrical container usually bulging outwards in the middle and held together by metal hoops; cask
2. Also called: barrelful the amount that a barrel can hold
3. (Units) a unit of capacity used in brewing, equal to 36 Imperial gallons
4. (Units) a unit of capacity used in the oil and other industries, normally equal to 42 US gallons or 35 Imperial gallons
5. a thing or part shaped like a barrel, esp a tubular part of a machine
6. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) the tube through which the projectile of a firearm is discharged
7. (Horology) horology the cylindrical drum in a watch or clock that is rotated by the mainspring
8. (Zoology) the trunk of a four-legged animal: the barrel of a horse.
9. (Zoology) the quill of a feather
10. informal a large measure; a great deal (esp in the phrases barrel of fun, barrel of laughs)
11. (Swimming, Water Sports & Surfing) informal Austral the hollow inner side of a wave
12. over a barrel informal powerless
13. scrape the barrel informal to be forced to use one's last and weakest resource
vb, -rels, -relling or -relled, -rels, -reling or -reled
14. (tr) to put into a barrel or barrels
15. (intr; foll by along, in, etc) informal (intr) to travel or move very fast
16. (Swimming, Water Sports & Surfing) informal Austral to ride on the inside of a wave
[C14: from Old French baril perhaps from barre bar1]
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bar•rel
(ˈbær əl)n., v. -reled, -rel•ing (esp. Brit.) -relled, -rel•ling. n.
1. a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
2. a standard quantity that such a vessel can hold, as, in the U.S., 31.5 gallons of liquid or 105 dry quarts of fruits or vegetables.
3. any large quantity: a barrel of fun.
4. any container, case, or part similar to a wooden barrel.
5. the tubelike part of a gun from which the projectile emerges.
6. the cylindrical case in a watch or clock within which the mainspring is coiled.
7. the trunk of a quadruped, esp. of a horse or cow.
8. Also called throat. a passageway in a carburetor that has the shape of a Venturi tube.
v.t. 9. to put or pack in a barrel or barrels.
10. to pursue (one's way) or to force (something) to go at high speed.
v.i. 11. to travel or drive very fast: to barrel along the highway.
Idioms: over a barrel, at the mercy of circumstances or one's adversaries; without choices.
[1250–1300; Middle English barell < Old French barril]
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barrel
Past participle: barrelled
Gerund: barrelling
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Barrel
1. A round vessel made of wood staves or of sheet metal. Barrels had a greater length than diameter and those of wood bulged in the middle.
2. A unit of volume. There are no worldwide standards of size, and the official values may change through time. U.S. wine barrel volume (1920s) was thirty-one gallons. The beer barrel volume was thirty-one and half gallons, and the British imperial beer barrel contained thirty-six gallons. At the end of the twentieth century, a barrel of oil was forty-two gallons and a barrel of water was thirty-one and a half gallons. In 1866, a gallon was listed in Sweet’s Ready Reckoner (U.S.) as containing 277.25 cubic inches. By 1920, a U.S. gallon contained 231 cubic inches and, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, still contained 231 cubic inches.
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| Noun | 1. |  barrel - a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is firedgun - a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) |
| 2. |  barrel - a cylindrical container that holds liquidsbeer barrel, beer keg - a barrel that holds beer breech, rear of barrel, rear of tube - opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded hogshead - a large cask especially one holding 63 gals hoop, ring - a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse" keg - small cask or barrel pickle barrel - a barrel holding vinegar in which cucumbers are pickled shook - a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment tun - a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals vessel - an object used as a container (especially for liquids) wine barrel, wine cask - a barrel that holds wine | |
| 3. |  barrel - a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat endscylinder - a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line | |
| 4. |  barrel - the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will holdcontainerful - the quantity that a container will hold | |
| 5. |  barrel - any of various units of capacity; "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons"United States liquid unit - a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit - a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet congius, Imperial gallon, gallon - a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters hogshead - a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages | |
| Verb | 1. |  barrel - put in barrels |
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barrel
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
barrel
nounverb
Slang. To move swiftly:
bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour, shoot, speed, sprint, tear, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom.
Slang: highball.
Chiefly British: nip.
Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step on it.
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Translations
بَرْميلبِرْميلماسورَة البُنْدُقِيَّه
quart
sudbarelhlaveňbečka
tøndeankergeværløb
tynnyripiippuputki
bačva
ágyúcsõhordó
tunnabaulahlaup
樽
통
statinėvamzdis
cilindrsmucastobrs
sodpuškina cev
fat
ถังใส่ของเหลว
nòngthùng tròn
barrel
[ˈbærəl]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
barrel
[ˈbærəl] n (= container) [beer, wine] → tonneau m; [fish] → caque f
to have sb over a barrel → avoir qn à sa merci
to scrape the bottom of the barrel, to scrape the barrel → racler les fonds de tiroir
to be a barrel of laughs [situation, event] → être une partie de plaisir
It wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs → Ce n'était pas vraiment une partie de plaisir.
The suppers are always a barrel of laughs
BUT On rigole toujours bien à ces dîners.; [person] → être rigolo(te)
to have sb over a barrel → avoir qn à sa merci
to scrape the bottom of the barrel, to scrape the barrel → racler les fonds de tiroir
to be a barrel of laughs [situation, event] → être une partie de plaisir
It wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs → Ce n'était pas vraiment une partie de plaisir.
The suppers are always a barrel of laughs
BUT On rigole toujours bien à ces dîners.; [person] → être rigolo(te)
(= standard unit) [oil] → baril m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
barrel
n
→ Fass nt; (for oil, tar, rainwater etc) → Tonne f; (= measure: of oil) → Barrel nt; they’ve got us over a barrel (inf) → sie haben uns in der Zange (inf); it wasn’t exactly a barrel of laughs (inf) → es war nicht gerade komisch; she wasn’t exactly a barrel of laughs (inf) → sie war nicht gerade in bester Stimmung; to pay cash on the barrel (US) → bar auf den Tisch or die Kralle (inf) → zahlen ? biscuit, scrape
(of handgun) → Lauf m; (of cannon etc) → Rohr nt; to give somebody both barrels → auf jdn aus beiden Läufen feuern; I found myself looking down the barrel of a gun → ich hatte plötzlich eine Kanone vor der Nase (sl) ? lock2
(of fountain pen) → Tank m
barrel
:barrel-chested
barrelhouse (US)
adj barrel blues alte, in Kneipen gespielte Form des Blues
barrel organ
n → Drehorgel f, → Leierkasten m
barrel roll
n (Aviat) → Rolle f (im Kunstflug)
barrel vault
n → Tonnengewölbe nt
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
barrel
(ˈbӕrəl) noun1. a container of curved pieces of wood or of metal. The barrels contain beer.
2. a long, hollow, cylindrical shape, especially the tube-shaped part of a gun. The bullet jammed in the barrel of the gun.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
barrel
→ بِرْميل sud tønde Fass βαρέλι barril tynnyri tonneau bačva barile 樽 통 ton tønne beczka barril бочка fat ถังใส่ของเหลว fıçı thùng tròn 桶Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
barrel
n. [part of a syringe] cilindro; barril.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
barrel
n (of a syringe) cilindro; — chest tórax en tonelEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.