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JAR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: jarred    , jarring   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("jar" is a kind of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Meronyms (parts of "jar"):

mouth (the opening of a jar or bottle)

lid (a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jar"):

amphora (an ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck; used to hold oil or wine)

beaker (a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry)

canopic jar; canopic vase (a jar used in ancient Egypt to contain entrails of an embalmed body)

cookie jar; cooky jar (a jar in which cookies are kept (and sometimes money is hidden))

crock; earthenware jar (an earthen jar (made of baked clay))

cruse (small jar; holds liquid (oil or water))

jamjar; jampot (a jar for holding jellies or preserves)

Mason jar (a glass jar with an air-tight screw top; used in home canning)

vase (an open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers)

Derivation:

jar (place in a cylindrical vessel)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sudden jarring impact

Example:

all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers

Synonyms:

jar; jolt; jounce; shock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("jar" is a kind of...):

blow; bump (an impact (as from a collision))

Derivation:

jar (move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a jar

Example:

he drank a jar of beer

Synonyms:

jar; jarful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("jar" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Derivation:

jar (place in a cylindrical vessel)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place in a cylindrical vessel

Example:

jar the jam

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "jar" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They jar the goods

Derivation:

jar (a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles)

jar (the quantity contained in a jar)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Affect in a disagreeable way

Example:

This play jarred the audience

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "jar" is one way to...):

affect; impress; move; strike (have an emotional or cognitive impact upon)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to jar Sue

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion

Synonyms:

jar; jolt

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "jar" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

jar (a sudden jarring impact)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Shock physically

Example:

Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game

Synonyms:

bump around; jar; shake up

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "jar" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 5

Meaning:

Be incompatible; be or come into conflict

Example:

These colors clash

Synonyms:

clash; collide; jar

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "jar" is one way to...):

conflict (be in conflict)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

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 Context examples: 

In less than 10 seconds, Freya stops sniffing and sits down in front of a jar.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

Octopuses have amazed scientists for centuries —these underwater creatures can open jars, recognize faces and now a stunning video has suggested that they have dreams.

(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Their feet fell heavily on the trail, jarring their bodies and doubling the fatigue of a day’s travel.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Before the golden mean was found, however, Meg added to her domestic possessions what young couples seldom get on long without, a family jar.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In the grocery store, avoid cans that are bulging or jars that have cracks or loose lids.

(Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture)

Nor could I help thinking this a prudent course, since she looked at me out of the pickle-jar, with as great an access of sourness as if her black eyes had absorbed its contents.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He advised her against it, thought the jar too great; but no, he reasoned and talked in vain, she smiled and said, I am determined I will: he put out his hands; she was too precipitate by half a second, she fell on the pavement on the Lower Cobb, and was taken up lifeless!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Researchers have concluded, by analysing the diet of past peoples from samples in the anthropological collections of the Megalithic necropolises of Panoría (Darro, Granada) and El Barranquete (Níjar, Almería), that although Megalithic communities did vary their eating habits over time, there were no relevant social differences either in the type of food or in the proportion of proteins consumed.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Researchers from the University of Granada have discovered that the megalithic necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería, south‑eastern Spain) prolonged its funerary use throughout the Bronze Age, a thousand years longer than previously thought, and that despite its proximity to the sea, people living there did not make use of marine resources.

(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)

On October 27, Uranus was exactly opposite the Sun and new moon in Scorpio at four degrees—a very jarring aspect.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)