Jar

Noun

 * 1) A small, approximately cylindrical container for food, normally made of glass or clay.
 * 2)  Java archive
 * 3)  JAR: Tool to create compressed file archives.

Synonyms

 * pot

Derived terms

 * cookie jar
 * jam jar, jamjar


 * mason jar
 * spice jar

Verb

 * 1) To knock or strike sharply.
 * He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.
 * 1) to shock or surprise.
 * I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn't gotten back in a car since.
 * 1)  To be so different that it looks strange and doesn't fit in with the surroundings; to be incongruent.

Noun

 * 1) A shake.
 * 2) A sense of alarm or dismay.
 * 3)  Discord, contention; quarrelling.
 * 4) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
 * He maketh warre, he maketh peace againe, / And yet his peace is but continuall iarre [...].
 * 1) * 1612, John Smith, Proceedings, in Kupperman 1988, p. 122:
 * To redresse those jarres and ill proceedings, the Councell in England altered the governement and devolved the authoritie to the Lord De-la-ware.

Synonyms

 * (knock sharply): jolt

Derived terms

 * jarring

Adjectives for Jar
dripping; giddy; subsequent; intestinal; mortal; endless; importunate; tempestuous; family-sized; inharmonious; treble.

Adverbs for Jar
rudely; terrifically; tempestuously; roughly;disastrously;  mysteriously;   awkwardly; economically.

Thesaurus
Babel, Discordia, Eris, agitate, agitation, agree to disagree, bag, barrel, basket, be at cross-purposes, be at variance, belch, blare, blat, bob, bobble, bottle, bounce, bowl down, bowl over, box, box up, bray, break, break off, bump, burr, buzz, cackle, calabash, can, canteen, capsule, carafe, carboy, carton, case, cask, caster, caw, chatter, chirr, clamor, clang, clangor, clank, clash, clashing, collide, collision, concussion, conflict, contention, contradict, counter, crash, crate, craunch, croak, cruet, crump, crunch, cruse, decanter, demijohn, didder, differ, differ in opinion, disaccord, disaffinity, disagree, discombobulate, discompose, disconcert, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, disquiet, dissent, disturb, disturbance, dither, do up, electrify, encase, encyst, enmity, ewer, falter, fifth, flacon, flagon, flask, flasket, fluctuation, flurry, fluster, flutter, friction, frighten, fuss, gourd, grate, grate on, grimace, grind, groan, growl, grumble, hamper, harshness, have an ague, hipflask, hit a clinker, hold opposite views, hot-water bottle, hustle, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irritate, jactitate, jangle, jangle the nerves, jar on, jerk, jeroboam, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jug, jump, lota, magnum, mere noise, mischief, mismatch, mismate, misunderstand one another, mussuk, negate, noise, noncooperation, not get along, object, olla, open conflict, pack, package, parcel, perturb, phial, pot, pull different ways, put on edge, put up, quake, quaver, quiver, rasp, rattle, rictus, rock, rub, ruffle, sack, scranch, scrape, scratch, scrunch, shake, shake up, shiver, shock, shudder, smash, snarl, snore, stagger, start, startle, stir, stoup, strained relations, stun, sway, take aback, tank, tension, tic, tin, tremble, tremor, trouble, turn, twang, twitch, twitter, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, unsettle, unstring, untune, upset, vacuum bottle, vary, vial, vibrate, vibration, wobble

Etymology 1
From jarre, from   (jarrah) ‘earthern receptacle’.

Etymology 2
Unknown; perhaps imitative.

Noun

 * Albanian: kavanoz
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: буркан
 * Crimean Tatar: bank
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German: (glass jar only),
 * Greek: βάζο
 * Icelandic: krukka
 * Ido: jaro


 * Italian:, ,
 * Korean: 단지 (danji), 독 (dok)
 * Macedonian:
 * Romanian:, , blid
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: tegla, ćup , žbanja
 * Serbo-Croatian: tegla, staklenka
 * Spanish: ,
 * Taos: múluną
 * Turkish:

Anagrams

 * raj

Noun

 * 1)  spring
 * 2) swelter, intense heat (and figuratively)
 * 3) * 1876, August Šenoa, Seljačka buna:
 * Je l' čudo kad puk pozvjeri, i bojim se da će koga toga zaboljeti glava, ako se blagoćom tinjajući jar ne prigasi.
 * 1) * 1916, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Jagor:
 * Stoji maćeha, okamenila se od čuda, ali kad nestalo starca, uhvati je jar i bijes.
 * 1) * 1893, Eugen Kumičić, Urota zrinsko-frankopanska:
 * Ja bih se mogao užgati kao puščani prah, da, da, užgati, od jara, bijesa, ogorčenja!

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) year

Descendants

 * Dutch:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) year

Etymology
From, whence also Old English gear:, Old Norse ár

Noun

 * 1) spring

Etymology
From, cognate with Serbo-Croatian јар:/jar:, dialectal Bulgarian and Russian яра:. Non-Slavic cognates include Gothic 𐌾𐌴𐍂:.

Article

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Alternative forms

 * ja