Synonyms for barrel
ˈbær əlbar·rel

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1. barrel, gun barrelnoun

   a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired

   Synonyms:
   cask, gun barrel, drum, bbl, barrelful

2. barrel, casknoun

   a cylindrical container that holds liquids

   Synonyms:
   cask, caskful, gun barrel, drum, bbl, barrelful

3. barrel, drumnoun

   a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

   Synonyms:
   membranophone, bbl, brake drum, metal drum, drumfish, cask, gun barrel, drum, tympan, barrelful

4. barrel, barrelfulnoun

   the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold

   Synonyms:
   cask, gun barrel, drum, bbl, barrelful

5. barrel, bblverb

   any of various units of capacity

   "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons"

   Synonyms:
   cask, gun barrel, drum, bbl, barrelful

6. barrelverb

   put in barrels

Matched Categories

1. • Cylinder
   • Put
   • Tube

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. barrelnoun

   Synonyms:
   cask, cade, butt, puncheon, tierce, hogshead, keg, rundlet, (of wine) 31-1/2 gallons, (of flour) 196 pounds

   Associated words:
   gauntree, cooper, bilge, stave, hoop, chine

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1. List of paraphrases for "barrel":

   barrels, keg, canon, cannon, bbl, bpd, gun, canyon, drum, hot, cylinder, fat

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1. Carl Larry:

   I'm not sure if we'll get back to $80 a barrel, but $50 and above looks likely.

2. Bertrand Hodée:

   This project was not deemed economic at $100 a barrel so at current levels it is clearly a no-go.

3. Stephen Allen:

   Things are worse now than they were last year inside the camps. We can maintain standard services here, but people's supplementary resources are more stretched, four years in, they're at the bottom of the barrel.

4. Sylvester Stallone:

   My daughters and I were practicing — I play polo a lot; along time ago people would say, how can you afford it?I played with the worst horse on the planet, but I learned and eventually after I made money, I started to go into...barrel racing. It's very, very delicate, and I brought my daughters into it and Taylor Sheridan was at the same barn, and he hadn’t made it yet.

5. Director Ibrahima Diaby:

   With current exploration our ambition is to reach 200,000 BOE (barrel of oil equivalent) in 2020.