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Jar   /dʒɑr/   Listen
Jar

noun
1.
A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
2.
The quantity contained in a jar.  Synonym: jarful.
3.
A sudden jarring impact.  Synonyms: jolt, jounce, shock.  "All the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers"
verb
(past & past part. jarred; pres. part. jarring)
1.
Be incompatible; be or come into conflict.  Synonyms: clash, collide.
2.
Move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion.  Synonym: jolt.
3.
Shock physically.  Synonyms: bump around, shake up.
4.
Affect in a disagreeable way.
5.
Place in a cylindrical vessel.



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"Jar" Quotes from Famous Books



... all mixed together there seemed to be enough for a whole regiment, so we decided to make two cakes of it. They looked lovely when baked, and just right, and smelled so good, too! I wrapped them in nice white paper that had been wet with brandy, and put them carefully away—one in a stone jar, the other in a tin box—and felt that I had done a remarkably fine bit of housekeeping. The bachelors have been exceedingly kind to me, and I rejoiced at having a nice cake to send them Christmas morning. But alas! I forgot that the little house was fragrant ...
— Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 • Frances M.A. Roe
... that man is real mad and he might take it into his head to git down off his wagon and saize aich of us by the nape of the neck as the boat goes through, and slam us down so hard he'd jar us." ...
— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis
... kept his head inside the door and his body outside, as if he had been in the pillory. I saw that he required some explanation, and cried out, "I am Mr Frank; will you obey me, or shall I throw this jar at your head?" brandishing one ...
— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat
... began getting too many of them—and correspondingly depressed when some many-coloured glass lamp or strange dish would appear. What on earth could they do with them? Dear old Mrs. Conover, for example, sent a large Bohemian glass jar of a peacock-eyes pattern. It would have to be on view when she called, and as they had no way of knowing when that would be, it had to be on view all ...
— Tutors' Lane • Wilmarth Lewis
... that island did not compel a sordid narrowing of life. You would have found our living-room furnished in mahogany rich and old. In a corner where the airs came in by a great window stood a jar big enough to hide in, into which trickled a cool thread of water from a huge dripping-stone, while above these a shelf held native waterpots whose yellow and crimson surfaces were constantly pearled with ...
— The Flower of the Chapdelaines • George W. Cable


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