Jar

Quick meaning: Jar is a noun meaning (originally) An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.

Meaning

(originally) An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.

More Meanings

1. A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
2. (British, Ireland, colloquial) A pint glass
3. (British, Ireland, colloquial, metonymic) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
4. (transitive) To preserve (food) in a jar.
5. (countable) A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
6. (countable, also figuratively) A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
7. A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.

Example Sentences

She refilled the jar with peanuts today evening.

Lucy Orrinsmith praised the charms of green glazed vases from the Aures mountains and Tunisian coarse clay and terracotta jars.

The Leyden jar is charged, like the condenser of Œpinus and the fulminating square, by making one of the armatures communicate with the earth and the other with the electric source.

A smaller plate was immersed, while the combustion was in active operation, in a glass jar of carbonic acid gas without any diminution of the incandescence of its surface, showing that the combustion is independent of the atmosphere in which takes place.

Word Forms

• jars
• jarring
• jarred

Synonyms for jar

Depending on context, synonyms include cruse, pot, bottle, jolt, clash, jounce.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include collide, clash, jounce, jolt, shake up, flagon.

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