jar

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

2 the quantity contained in a jar; "he drank a jar of beer" [syn: jarful]

3 a sudden impact; "the door closed with a jolt" [syn: jolt, jounce]

1 be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" [syn: clash, collide]

2 move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn: jolt]

3 shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game" [syn: shake up, bump around]

4 affect in a disagreeable way; "This play jarred the audience"

5 place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam" [also: jarring, jarred]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes with: -ɑː(r)

Etymology 1

From jarre, from (jarrah) ‘earthern receptacle’.

Noun

1. A small, approximately cylindrical container for food, normally made of glass or clay.

Synonyms

• pot

Derived terms

• cookie jar
• jam jar, jamjar
• mason jar

Translations

• Bosnian: tegla
• Bulgarian: буркан (burkan)
• Crimean Tatar: bank
• Croatian: tegla
• Czech: sklenice
• Finnish: ruukku, tölkki
• French: jarre
• German: Glas (glass jar only)
• Icelandic: krukka
• Ido: jaro
• Italian: teglia , vaso
• Korean: 단지 (danji), 독 (dok)
• Macedonian: тегла (tegla)
• Russian: кувшин , сосуд
• Serbian:

  Cyrillic: тегла , ћуп

  Roman: tegla , ćup

• Spanish: pote, bote
• Turkish: kavanoz

Etymology 2

Unknown; perhaps imitative.

Verb

1. To knock or strike sharply.

   He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.

2. to shock or surprise.

   I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn't gotten back in a car since.

Noun

1. A shake.
2. A sense of alarm or dismay.

Synonyms

• (knock sharply): jolt

Derived terms

• jarring

Old High German

Etymology

Common Germanic *jaeram, whence also Old English ġēar, Old Norse ár

Noun

jār

1. year

Slovak

Noun

1. spring i season

Tz'utujil

Alternative spellings

• ja

Article

jar

1. the

A jar is small, approximately cylindrical container for food, made of glass or clay, and also plastic as in the case of a "jar" of peanut butter.Jar or JAR can also mean:

• Containers:
  • Antique fruit jar
  • Mayonnaise jar
  • Canopic jar, used in ancient Egyptian burial
  • Leyden jar, a simple capacitor
  • Killing jar
• J.A.R., a song by Green Day
• JAR (file format)
• JAR (software), for data compression
• Jar, Azerbaijan, in the Zaqatala rayon
• Jar, Norway, a centre in the municipality of Bærum
• Jars, Cher, in the French département of Cher
• Jars of Clay, a musical group
• Jewish Autonomous Region of Russia
• Joint Aviation Requirements issued by Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities
• James A. Rhodes Arena

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