crossbar

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• 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^[1]:

     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

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)

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