jar

1. (transitive) To preserve (food) in a jar.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."Synonyms: bottletransitive

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

2. (countable, also figuratively) A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.Examples: "[...] 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!""; "The next instant the automobile had come with a catastrophic jar against an iron object."Synonyms: joltalsocountablefiguratively

3. (countable, by extension) A sense of alarm or dismay.broadlycountable

4. (countable) The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.Examples: "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."countable

5. (countable, now rare) A disagreement, a dispute, a quarrel; (uncountable) contention, discord; quarrelling.Examples: "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 redreſſe thoſe jarres and ill proceedings, the Treaſurer, Councell, and Company of Virginia, not finding that returne, and profit they expected; and them ingaged there, not having meanes to ſubſiſt of themſelues, made meanes to his Maieſtie, to call in their Commiſſion, […]"archaiccountable

1. (transitive) To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.Examples: "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."; "The most reliable process [for removing curculios] is that of jarring the trees and collecting the insects on a cotton sheet spread under the tree. […] [I]n this manner a dozen or more of trees can be jarred and the results carefully collected in about fifteen or twenty minutes."transitive

2. (transitive) To harm or injure by such action.transitive

3. (transitive, figuratively) To shock or surprise.Examples: "I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn’t got back in a car since."figurativelytransitive

4. (transitive, figuratively) To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.Examples: "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."figurativelytransitive

5. (ambitransitive) To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.Examples: "The clashing notes jarred on my ears."; "How irkſome is this Muſick to my heart? / When ſuch Strings iarre, what hope of Harmony?"; "Be not too rigidly Cenſorious, / A ſtring may jarr in the beſt Maſters hand, / And the moſt skilfull Archer miſs his aim; / But in a Poem elegantly writ, / I will not quarrel with a ſlight miſtake, / Such as our Natures frailty may excuſe; [...]"ambitransitive

6. (intransitive) To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.intransitive

1. (file format, Java programming language) Initialism of Java archive.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism