(n): an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
(n): a counter where you can obtain food or drink
(n): table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
(n): a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
(n): instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end
(n): musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
(n): (music) notation used by musicians
(n): an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
(n): any structure that makes progress difficult
(n): the act of preventing
(n): the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
(n): (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
(n): a unit measuring force per unit area
(n): a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
(n): a long narrow natural elevation or striation
(n): anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access
(n): the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
(n): the body of people in a learned occupation
(n): a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
(n): a pattern of marks
(n): a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
(n): a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
(n): a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War
(n): light machine gun
(n): a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
(n): any device that bears the weight of another thing
(n): a heating element in an electric fire
(n): the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat
(n): (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
(n): a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
(v): prevent from entering; keep out
(v): command against
(v): render unsuitable for passage
(v): block passage through
(v): expel, as if by official decree
(v): force to leave or move out
(v): secure with, or as if with, bars
(v): cause to be firmly attached
{Zincali} Stone.
'Bar lachi', loadstone.
'Bares del mol', 'The rocks of the wine'.
Great citation Pro. The last bit reminds me of similar processes at work in Indonesia under Soeharto. The General was very much a control freak, and very peeved at the way foreign expressions would just creep in. So like all good dictators he had a committee of bureaucrats hard at work trying to Indonesianise borrowings. Some of the results were just funny. kandidat candidate was replaced with admittedly more Indonesian calon, although the latter is typically associated with prospective marriage suitors! ATMs were by then cropping up all over the big cities. The government linguists worked out that ATM must therefore be Anjungan Tunai Mandiri independent cash platform. It kind of works, although the idea behind it is wacky. At best I can pass it off as state-sponsored mnemonics.
The Fascist Italianization was the violent and systematic process by which, between 1924 and 1945, the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini forced foreign populations living in Italy to assume Italian culture and language, and worked on erasing any traces of existence of other nations on the territory of Mussolini's Italy.
In the 1930s a program of Italianization of the language was started. Foreign words were forbidden and new Italian words were created (such "calcio" instead of "football", or "consociazione" instead of "club").
(from Wikipedia)
Some of the words just sound weird, for example ghiacciaia instead of freezer. But the weirdest ever was mescita instead of bar: as bilby said on one of my lists, the word is "highly integrated", and it was already at the time. So there was a clumsy attempt to pass it off as an acronym for Bevande Alcoliche Rivendita ("Wines and Spirits Retail Outlet").
A pub room with service and not necessarily one with a servery (also called a bar) in it. There are several different types of bars.
Thank you Barrie Pepper.
A pub room with a servery.
I love programming language grammar and the way it folds, spindles and mutilates English.
See foo.