jar

An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.

• She refilled the jar with peanuts today evening.

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

• 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.

A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.

• Who do you think you are? / Runnin' 'round leaving scars / Collecting your jar of hearts / And tearing love apart

A pint glassIrelandUKcolloquial

A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.IrelandUKcolloquial

• 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.

To preserve (food) in a jar.transitive

• 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.

A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.countable

A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.alsocountablefiguratively

• [...] yet (good-deed) Leontes, I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay?
• The next instant the automobile had come with a catastrophic jar against an iron object.

A sense of alarm or dismay.broadlycountable

The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.countable

• 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.archaiccountable

• 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; […]

To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.transitive

• He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.

To harm or injure by such action.transitive

To shock or surprise.figurativelytransitive

• 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.figurativelytransitive

• 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.ambitransitive

• The clashing notes jarred on my ears.

To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.intransitive

Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.figurativelyintransitive