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Barrel
Found in thesaurus: tubing, tube, vessel, cylinder, containerful, united states liquid unit, imperial capacity unit, british capacity unit, put, lay, place, set, position, pose
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barrel
v.
move at high speed (Slang)
n.
drum, cask; tube of a gun; round container
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BARREL
Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) is a NASA mission operated out of Dartmouth College that works with the Van Allen Probes mission (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission). The BARREL project has launched 20 balloons from Antarctica during each of two balloon campaigns in January 2013 and January 2014. Unlike the football-field-sized balloons typically launched at the Poles, these are each just 90 feet in diameter.
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Barrel
A barrel, cask, or tun is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wooden staves bound by wooden or metal hoops. Traditionally, the barrel was a standard size of measure referring to a set capacity or weight of a given commodity. For example, in the UK a barrel of beer refers to a quantity of . Wine was shipped in barrels of .
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barrel
Noun
1. a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
(synonym) gun barrel
(hypernym) tube, tubing
(part-holonym) gun
2. a cylindrical container that holds liquids
(synonym) cask
(hypernym) vessel
(hyponym) beer barrel, beer keg
(part-meronym) breech, rear of barrel, rear of tube
3. a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
(synonym) drum
(hypernym) cylinder
4. the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
(synonym) barrelful
(hypernym) containerful
5. any of various units of capacity; "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons"
(synonym) bbl
(hypernym) United States liquid unit
(part-holonym) hogshead
(part-meronym) gallon, gal
Verb
1. put in barrels
(hypernym) put, set, place, pose, position, lay
(derivation) barrelful
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Barrel (das)
n.
barrel, round container
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barrel
n.
barrel, drum, cask; tube of a gun; round container
