Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word JAR

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Definitions of JAR

1. A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
2. A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
3. (originally) An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial. [from late 16th c.]
4. (British, Irish, colloquial) A pint glass
5. (British, Irish, colloquial, metonymy) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
6. (transitive) To preserve (food) in a jar.
7. (countable) A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
8. (countable, also, figuratively) A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
9. (countable, by extension) A sense of alarm or dismay.
10. (countable) The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
11. (countable, now, rare) A disagreement, a dispute, a quarrel; (uncountable) contention, discord; quarrelling.
12. (transitive) To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
13. (transitive) To harm or injure by such action.
14. (transitive, figuratively) To shock or surprise.
15. (transitive, figuratively) To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
16. (ambitransitive) To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
17. (intransitive) To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
18. (intransitive, figuratively) Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
19. (file format, Java programming language) Initialism of Java archive.

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Examples of Using JAR in a Sentence

• It typically consists of a glass jar with metal foil cemented to the inside and the outside surfaces, and a metal terminal projecting vertically through the jar lid to make contact with the inner foil.
• In a system consisting of ice and water in a glass jar, the ice cubes are one phase, the water is a second phase, and the humid air is a third phase over the ice and water.
• The Pandora myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world, according to which, Pandora opened a jar (pithos; commonly referred to as "Pandora's box") releasing all the evils of humanity.
• She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
• The food is covered with water and put in a covered ceramic jar and the jar is then steamed for several hours.
• An inkwell is a small jar or container, often made of glass, porcelain, silver, brass, or pewter, used for holding ink in a place convenient for the person who is writing.
• He was dubbed a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre and was also inducted into the Order of the Jar and the Order of the Dragon.
• She had brought with her as a wedding gift from heaven a storage jar but when this was opened it released a host of human ills before the lid could be secured again.
• In 1999, four students at the local high school started the Life in a Jar project honoring Irena Sendler, a Polish humanitarian who rescued over 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
• According to linguist Keith Baca, the name Arcola may be derived from the Choctaw language meaning "jar".
• However, the company does provide peanut butter for sale by the case or jar in a variety of flavors including Honey and Peanut Butter and Chocolate and Peanut Butter.
• The singles "Whiskey in the Jar" (1972), "The Boys Are Back in Town" (1976) and "Waiting for an Alibi" (1979) were international hits, and several Thin Lizzy albums reached the top ten in the UK.
• Samguk Sagi, a historical record of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, mentions the pickle jar used to ferment vegetables, which indicates that fermented vegetables were commonly eaten during this time.
• February 11 – American-born poet Sylvia Plath (age 30) commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in her London flat about a month after her only novel, the semi-autobiographical The Bell Jar, appears and six days after writing her last poem, "Edge".
• Flinders Petrie in his 1923 expedition to the Saqqara (also spelt Sakkara) found several references to Ash in Old Kingdom wine jar seals: "I am refreshed by this Ash" was a common inscription.
• Thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman.
• In the 1950s, excavations revealed remnants of the complex, a lay graveyard with reburied skeletons, shattered stained glass, and a large Saxon jar.
• Rooney offers a jar of candy corn as a prize for whoever correctly guesses the number of candies in the jar.
• She co-directed the film Drones (2010) with fellow Buffy cast member Adam Busch, and starred as a waitress in the crime thriller The Killing Jar (2010).
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