rebar

English

Etymology 1

Blend of reinforcing +‎ bar

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiː.bɑː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -iːbɑː(ɹ)

Noun

rebar (countable and uncountable, plural rebars)

1. (countable) A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure.
   • 2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 35:

     The floor and walls for Copthall tunnel have already been constructed using formwork into which rebar (reinforcing bar) was placed, and then concrete poured.

2. (uncountable) A grid-shaped system of such bars.
   • 2020, David Farrier, “Thin Cities”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

     The hash mark of rebar or the curve of a hubcap will create curious shapes to be decoded; even, perhaps, entire subway trains and lengths of tracks will remain.

Translations

steel reinforcing bar for concrete

• Armenian: ամրան (hy) (amran)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋼筋／钢筋 (zh) (gāngjīn)

• Czech: roxor (cs) m (informal)
• Dutch: wapening (nl) f
• Finnish: harjateräs (fi) (bar), raudoitus (fi) (grid)
• French: fer à béton (fr) m, barre d’armature f
• German: Bewehrungsstab m, Betonstahl m, Betonstabstahl m
• Hungarian: betonacél (hu)
• Icelandic: kambstál n, steypustyrktarstál n
• Indonesian: baja tulangan beton
• Japanese: 鉄筋 (ja) (tekkin)
• Portuguese: vergalhão (pt) m (Brazil), varão nervurado m (Portugal)
• Romanian: fier-beton
• Russian: армату́ра (ru) f (armatúra), армату́рный прут m (armatúrnyj prut)
• Swedish: armeringsjärn (sv) n
• Thai: เหล็กเส้น (lèk-sên)
• Turkish: donatı (tr), teçhizat (tr)

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To reinforce with bars of this kind.

Etymology 2

re- +‎ bar

Pronunciation

• (UK) 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, arber, barer, barre, berra

Latin

Verb

rēbar

1. first-person singular imperfect active indicative of reor