jar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jär
ipa: /dʒɑː/
ipa: [d͡ʒɑː(ɹ)]
ipa: /d͡ʒɑɹ/
ipa: [d͡ʒɑɹ]
ipa: /dʒɐː/
ipa: [d͡ʒɐː(ɹ)]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: jars
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English jarre (“jar”), from Medieval Latin jarra, or from Middle French jarre (“liquid measure”) (from Old French jare; modern French jarre (“earthenware jar”)), or from Spanish jarra, jarro (“jug, pitcher; mug, stein”), all from Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthen receptacle”).
The word is cognate with Italian giara (“jar; crock”), Occitan jarro, Portuguese jarra, jarro (“jug; ewer, pitcher”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: She refilled the jar with peanuts today evening.
text: As I was going over the far fam'd Kerry mountain / I met with Captain Farrell [a]nd his money he was counting, / I first produced my pistol and I then produced my rapier, / Sayin', "Stand and deliver for you are my bold deceiver,["] / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, There's whiskey in the jar / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, There's whiskey in the jar.
ref: 17th century?, “There’s Whiskey in the Jar”, in Colm O Lochlainn, compiler, Irish Street Ballads: Collected and Annotated […], New York, N.Y.: Corinth Books, published 1960, →OCLC, page 24:
text: [A] certain fisherman, after throwing his nets to no purpose, and beginning to be in despair, succeeded in catching a jar of brass. […] But presently there came out of the jar a vapour, and it rose up towards the heavens, and reached along the face of the earth; and after this, the vapour reached its height, and condensed, and became compact, and waved tremulously, and became an Ufreet (evil spirit), […]
ref: 1848, Leigh Hunt, “Introduction. A Blue Jar from Sicily, and a Brass Jar from the ‘Arabian Nights;’ and What Came Out of Each.”, in A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 3:
text: The first view shows the body in the grave, looking southwards; the stack of offering jars lies outside of a little court for offerings which is seen beyond them. Below this is a nearer view of the grave alone. Here is skeleton is in place, an alabaster bowl lies between the face and the knees, and a slate palette over that. Five jars stand around the body.
ref: 1914, W[illiam] M[atthew] Flinders Petrie, “The Valley Cemetery”, in Tarkhan II (British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account: Nineteenth Year, 1913; XXV), London: School of Archaeology in Egypt, University College, […] and Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, page 2, column 2:
text: Lucy Orrinsmith praised the charms of green glazed vases from the Aures mountains and Tunisian coarse clay and terracotta jars.
ref: 2008, Judith A. Neiswander, “Individuality and Eclectic Internationalism”, in The Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home 1870–1914, New Haven, Conn.; London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 46:
qualifier: originally
glosses: An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
examples: text: The Leyden jar is charged, like the condenser of Œpinus and the fulminating square, by making one of the armatures communicate with the earth and the other with the electric source.
ref: 1855, “On Physics, or Natural Philosophy. No. LIX. Effects Produced by the Accumulation of both Electricities.”, in [Robert Wallace], editor, The Popular Educator, volume VI, London: John Cassell, […], →OCLC, page 507, column 1:
text: These important deficiencies in air-tight jars for preserving eggs have led me to invent a jar purposely for egg preserving, and which jar is not only perfectly air-tight, but it will show at a glance whether it is so, and how long it remains so, by means of its patent pneumatic self-indicating cap.
ref: 1865 March 14, G. K. Geyelin, “The Laws of Nature: In Relation to Poultry Keeping from a Commercial Point of View”, in George W. Johnson, Robert Hogg, editors, The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman. […], volume VIII, number 207 (New Series; volume XXXIII, issue 859 (Old Series)), London: Published for the proprietors, […], →OCLC, page 219, column 2:
synonyms: cruse
pot
glosses: A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
examples: text: A smaller plate was immersed, while the combustion was in active operation, in a glass jar of carbonic acid gas without any diminution of the incandescence of its surface, showing that the combustion is independent of the atmosphere in which takes place.
ref: 1911 November 21, William A[rthur] Bone, “Surface Combustion in a Boiler”, in Power: Devoted to the Generation and Transmission of Power, volume 34, number 21, New York, N.Y.: Hill Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 767, column 3:
text: Who do you think you are? / Runnin' 'round leaving scars / Collecting your jar of hearts / And tearing love apart
ref: 2010 July 27, Christina Perri, “Jar of Hearts”, in Lovestrong:
glosses: A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
glosses: A pint glass
examples: text: About a shopping trolley, I thought I'd let ye know. Ya'd try to push it straight but it never seems ta go. Ya'd wobble through the car park, hopping off the cars. Anyone would think ya had a few auld jars.
ref: 2013 March 15, “The Shopping Trolley” (track 10), in Horsing Around, performed by Richie Kavanagh:
glosses: A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
Hyponyms: cookie jar
jam jar
mason jar
spice jar
Derived terms: bean jar
bell jar
body jar
canopic jar
caught in the cookie jar
caught raiding the cookie jar
caught with one's fingers in the cookie jar
caught with the cookie jar
cookie-jar accounting
cookie-jar reserve
cupping jar
cupping-jar
evejar
fingers in the cookie jar
first olive out of the jar
fruit jar
gas jar
hand in the cookie jar
honesty jar
honor jar
honour jar
jamjar
jar-dropping
jarful
jarhead
jarless
jarlic
jarlike
jar mill
jar opener
jar-owl
job jar
killing jar
Kilner jar
Kleistian jar
Leiden jar
Leyden jar
Mason jar
monkey jar
night-jar
on the jar
Pandora's jar
Pegu jar
slop-jar
stirrup jar
swear jar
tip jar
unit jar
water-jar
with one's fingers in the cookie jar
Related terms: english: possibly related
translation: possibly related
word: jorum