jar
noun
- rigid, approximately cylindrical container with a wide mouth or opening
verb
- bump
- move roughly
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑː/ / [d͡ʒɑː(ɹ)] / /d͡ʒɑɹ/
noun
Etymology: From earlier jar, jur, jarre, jurre, of uncertain origin. Possibly from earlier *char, *chur, *charre, *churre (now spelt chirr, churr (“to make a sound”); compare also nightjar and its variant nightchurr), from Middle English *chirren, *cherren, *churren (“to sound, cry, murmur, complain”), from Old English ċeorian (“to murmur, gripe, complain with just cause”), from Proto-West Germanic *karēn (“to complain”). For the change of ch to j, compare also charm, jarm (“chirping”); achar, ajar (“slightly turned or open”), chaw, jaw, etc. The noun is derived from the verb.
- A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
- A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
“[...] yet (good-deed) Leontes, I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay?”
“Through the stir and motion of the commoner streets; through the roar and jar of many vehicles, many feet, many voices; with the blazing shop-lights lighting him on, the west wind blowing him on, and the crowd pressing him on; he is pitilessly urged upon his way, and nothing meets him, murmuring, "Don't go home!"”
- A sense of alarm or dismay.
- The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
“Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.”
- A disagreement, a dispute, a quarrel; (uncountable) contention, discord; quarrelling.
“So loue does raine / In ſtouteſt minds, and maketh monſtrous warre; / He maketh warre, he maketh peace againe, / And yett his peace is but continuall iarre: / O miſerable men, that to him ſubject arre.”
“I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]”
verb
Etymology: From earlier jar, jur, jarre, jurre, of uncertain origin. Possibly from earlier *char, *chur, *charre, *churre (now spelt chirr, churr (“to make a sound”); compare also nightjar and its variant nightchurr), from Middle English *chirren, *cherren, *churren (“to sound, cry, murmur, complain”), from Old English ċeorian (“to murmur, gripe, complain with just cause”), from Proto-West Germanic *karēn (“to complain”). For the change of ch to j, compare also charm, jarm (“chirping”); achar, ajar (“slightly turned or open”), chaw, jaw, etc. The noun is derived from the verb.
- To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
“He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.”
“[T]he wrought iron arms of a fly-wheel were jarred loose in the cast iron rim, and broke off quite short from the rapid and continued violent shocks caused by the cam striking the helve, although the iron was of the toughest description originally.”
- To harm or injure by such action.
- To shock or surprise.
“I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn’t got back in a car since.”
- To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
“VVhen thoſe renoumed^([sic – meaning renowned]) noble Peres of Greece, / thrugh ſtubborn pride amongſt theſelues did iar / forgetfull of the famous golden fleece, / then Orpheus vvith his harp theyr ſtrife did bar.”
“For Orders and Degrees / Jarr not with liberty, but well conſiſt.”
- To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
“The clashing notes jarred on my ears.”
“How irkſome is this Muſick to my heart? / When ſuch Strings iarre, what hope of Harmony?”
- To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
- Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.