crossbar

English

Etymology

From Middle English crose bar, equivalent to cross- +‎ bar.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹ̠ɑs.bɑɹ/
• Hyphenation: cross‧bar

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Noun

crossbar (plural crossbars)

1. 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.
2. (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.

3. The top tube of a bicycle frame.

Synonyms

• (bar through the shank of an anchor): stock
• (top of goal structure): bar

Derived terms

• crossbar hotel
• crossbar shot
• crossbar switch

Translations

transverse piece

Bulgarian: разпънка (bg) f (razpǎnka), траверса (bg) f (traversa) Finnish: poikkipalkki; tukki (fi) (anchor part) Galician: banzo m Hungarian: keresztrúd (hu), keresztgerenda (hu), keresztléc (hu), (across a door) hevederzár (hu) Irish: trasnán m Malay: bar silang Maori: whiti, pae, kaho Norwegian: Bokmål: tverrligger m Old Czech: břev f Swedish: tvärslå (sv) c Welsh: croesfar m

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) Welsh: croesfar m

top tube of a bicycle frame

Bulgarian: напречник (bg) m (naprečnik) Czech: štangle (cs) f Finnish: vaakaputki; tanko (fi) (colloquial) Hungarian: felsőcső, felső vázcső, váz (hu) Norman: barre f, barre dé travèrs f Norwegian: Bokmål: stang (no) m or f Polish: rama (pl) f Russian: попере́чина (ru) f (poperéčina) Swedish: stång (sv) c

Verb

crossbar (third-person singular simple present crossbars, present participle crossbarring, simple past and past participle crossbarred)

1. (transitive) To mark with a pattern of transverse bars.

Anagrams

• Scarbros

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English crossbar.

Noun

crossbar n (uncountable)

1. crossbar

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	crossbar	crossbarul
genitive-dative	crossbar	crossbarului
vocative	crossbarule