transcription, транскрипция: [ bærəl ]
( barrels, barrelling, barrelled)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: in AM, use 'barreling', 'barreled'
1.
A barrel is a large, round container for liquids or food.
The wine is aged for almost a year in oak barrels.
N-COUNT
2.
In the oil industry, a barrel is a unit of measurement equal to 159 litres.
In 1989, Kuwait was exporting 1.5 million barrels of oil a day...
Oil prices were closing at $19.76 a barrel.
N-COUNT : oft N of n
3.
The barrel of a gun is the tube through which the bullet moves when the gun is fired.
He pushed the barrel of the gun into the other man’s open mouth.
N-COUNT : oft N of n , n N
4.
If a vehicle or person is barreling in a particular direction, they are moving very quickly in that direction. ( mainly AM )
The car was barreling down the street at a crazy speed.
= career
VERB : V prep / adv
5.
see also pork barrel
6.
If you say, for example, that someone moves or buys something lock, stock, and barrel , you are emphasizing that they move or buy every part or item of it.
They dug up their New Jersey garden and moved it lock, stock, and barrel back home.
PHRASE : PHR after v [ emphasis ]
7.
If you say that someone is scraping the barrel , or scraping the bottom of the barrel , you disapprove of the fact that they are using or doing something of extremely poor quality. ( INFORMAL )
PHRASE : V inflects [ disapproval ]