Jar

Pronunciation

• enPR: jär, IPA: /dÊ’É‘r/
• AU IPA: dÊ’aː(ɹ)
• UK IPA: dʒɑː(ɹ)
• US IPA: dʒɑɹ, dÊ’É‘Ëž
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

From French jarre, from Arabic جره (jarrah, "earthern receptacle").

Full definition of jar

Noun

1. A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of glass or clay, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.

Synonyms

• pot

Derived terms

Unknown; perhaps imitative.

Verb

1. (transitive) To knock or strike sharply.He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.
2. (transitive) To shock or surprise.I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn't gotten back in a car since.
3. (of the form, style, appearance, etc. of people and things) To look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
4. To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly.The notes jarred on my ears.
• Shakespeare:When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?
• Roscommon:A string may jar in the best master's hand.
5. To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute.
• Spenser:When those renowned noble peers Greece
  Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar.
• Milton:For orders and degrees
  Jar not with liberty, but well consist.

Noun

1. A shake.
2. A sense of alarm or dismay.
3. (now rare) Discord, contention; quarrelling.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:He maketh warre, he maketh peace againe,
  And yet his peace is but continuall iarre ....
• 1612, John Smith, Proceedings, in Kupperman 1988, page 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

Anagrams

• raj