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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



... are closely and strongly bound together, and between each one and its neighbour there is something so soft and elastic that we can bend our heads, or move in any direction, without the slightest strain or jar. ...
— Twilight And Dawn • Caroline Pridham
... how steadily we are moving. Not a tremor nor movement of any sort appreciable. How decidedly superior to car or steamboat traveling. Here we have no jar, noise, ...
— Doctor Jones' Picnic • S. E. Chapman
... tin. Then, having stirred the mixture with a stick, he took a red ember from the fire and dropped it into the kettle, a process which, as travellers in the veld know well, has a clearing effect upon the coffee. Next he produced pannikins, and handed them up with a pickle jar full of sugar to Mr. Clifford, upon the waggon chest. Milk they had none, yet that coffee tasted a great deal better than it looked; indeed, Benita drank two cups of it to warm herself and wash ...
— Benita, An African Romance • H. Rider Haggard
... as a mother because it gives out the flour by which the family is fed. No one must sit on cowdung cakes because they are the seat of Saturn, the Evil One, and their smell is called Sanichar ke bas. No one must step on the chulka or cooking-hearth nor jar it with his foot. At the midday meal, when food is freshly cooked, each man will take a little fire from the hearth and place it in front of him, and will throw a little of everything he eats on to the fire, and some ghi ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell
... rushed for the jar of water and brought it to the Professor, who bathed his wounds, but the blow was so severe that he exhibited no ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen • Roger Finlay


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