Meaning of barber in English

Barbers in those days of old were called barber-surgeons, for the reason that they bled people, as well as shaved them or cut their hair.
If the wearing of the beard ever became universal, the world, and especially the Spanish and Italian world, would sadly miss the barber and the barber's shop.
Moreover, beardless, he would need the service of a barber every day.

(Definition of barber from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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barber

noun [ C ]

/ˈbɑr·bər/

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a person whose job is cutting hair, esp. of men and boys

(Definition of barber from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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Less than 2.5 per cent of all inventories were for professional people (attorneys, apothecaries, barbers, schoolteachers, surgeons and clerks).

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Altogether, these results suggest that stimulating the "remote surrounds" of the grating has a strong influence on the perceived direction of the barber pole.

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Other occupational groups who were apparently more likely to sue than to be sued were yeomen, scribes and notaries, and apothecaries and barbers.

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However, none of the shop signs of butchers and pharmacies and only 20-25% of the signs of barbers, bakeries, and grocery shops was anglicized.

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Note that this latter is the point at which responses to either "barber pole" or control stimuli diverge.

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Open symbols illustrate responses to a "barber pole" of aspect ratio 3.

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It was for this very reason that the description of the barber as suitable was so awkward for the participants at that early date.

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No long bills to barbers and hairdressers for powder and perfumes was in his charges.

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Monocular occlusion cues alter the influence of terminator motion in the barber pole phenomenon.

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He spent his early life working as a barber, carpenter, canecutter, bartender, tailor, railroad worker and army stenographer.

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This should allow determining a contrast dependent cut-off spatial frequency at which the barber pole illusion is abolished.

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Ver tical dotted lines indicate, for each subject, the estimated latencies for each component elicited by a "barber pole" of aspect ratio 3.

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Suppose my barber prescribes an itch-and-tingling suppression lotion, which she rubs into my hair and scalp.

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The natural-philosophical discussion was led by the university or city professor of anatomy and held among the medical doctors and members of the guild of barber-surgeons.

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