jar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: jars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jarring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jarred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jarred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
pos: noun
examples: She refilled the jar with peanuts today evening.
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.
[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), […]
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.
Lucy Orrinsmith praised the charms of green glazed vases from the Aures mountains and Tunisian coarse clay and terracotta jars.
gloss: A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Who do you think you are? / Runnin' 'round leaving scars / Collecting your jar of hearts / And tearing love apart
gloss: A pint glass
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
colloquial
gloss: A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
colloquial
metonymically
examples: 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.
gloss: To preserve (food) in a jar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It's important to consider the safety of jarring food. Eating food that has been spoiled because it wasn't jarred properly correctly can result in the disease botulism.
Related words: jorum
Derived words: 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
cuss 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
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