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English
Etymology
From Middle English crose bar, equivalent to cross- + bar.
Pronunciation
Noun
crossbar (plural crossbars)
- Any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor.
- (sports) The top of the goal structure.
2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:The effervescent Suarez then went close again as he worked space for a shot after a mazy run but could not keep his close-range shot below the crossbar.
- The top tube of a bicycle frame.
Synonyms
- (bar through the shank of an anchor): stock
- (top of goal structure): bar
Derived terms
Translations
top of the goal structure
- Armenian: հորիզոնական դարպասաձող (horizonakan darpasajoġ)
- Bulgarian: напречна греда f (naprečna greda)
- Catalan: travesser (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 橫梁 (zh) (héngliáng)
- Czech: břevno (cs) n
- Dutch: doellat (nl)
- Faroese: tvørstong f, yvirliggjari m
- Finnish: ylärima (fi), poikkipalkki
- French: barre transversale (fr) f, transversale (fr) f
- German: Querlatte f
- Greek: οριζόντιο δοκάρι n (orizóntio dokári)
- Hungarian: felső kapufa
- Japanese: 横木 (ja) (よこき, yokoki, よこぎ, yokogi), クロスバー (kurosubā)
- Latvian: pārliktnis m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tverrligger m
- Polish: poprzeczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: travessão (pt) m, barra (pt) f, trave (pt) f
- Russian: перекла́дина (ru) f (perekládina)
- Spanish: larguero (es) m, travesaño (es)
- Swedish: ribba (sv) c, överliggare c
- Ukrainian: попере́чка f (poperéčka)
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top tube of a bicycle frame
Verb
crossbar (third-person singular simple present crossbars, present participle crossbarring, simple past and past participle crossbarred)
- (transitive) To mark with a pattern of transverse bars.
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English crossbar.
Noun
crossbar n (uncountable)
- crossbar
Declension
declension of crossbar (singular only)
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singular
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n gender
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indefinite articulation
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definite articulation
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nominative/accusative
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(un) crossbar
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crossbarul
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genitive/dative
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(unui) crossbar
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crossbarului
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vocative
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crossbarule
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