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UK
/dʒˈɑː/
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[ US /ˈdʒɑɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɑɹ/ ]
NOUN
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a sudden jarring impact
all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers
the door closed with a jolt - a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles
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the quantity contained in a jar
he drank a jar of beer
VERB
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
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affect in a disagreeable way
This play jarred the audience -
be incompatible; be or come into conflict
These colors clash -
place in a cylindrical vessel
jar the jam -
shock physically
Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game
How To Use jar In A Sentence
- Brunhild, a mischievous, strong-minded goldfish (the voice of Noah Cyrus, Miley's younger sister), is determined to become a little girl when she's rescued from a jar and befriended by Sosuke (the voice of Frankie Jonas, the Jonas Brothers 'kid brother), a plucky, self-reliant 5-year-old. No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
- Although there are a couple of jarring transitions, the bulk of the movie unfolds with organic clarity.
- And if from this conjunction a baby was born, the infernal rite was resumed, all around a little jar of wine, which they called the keg, and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces, and pour its blood into the goblet, and they threw babies on the fire, still alive, and they mixed the baby's ashes and his blood, and drank! The Name of the Rose
- The jar tipped over, and hundreds of wooden clacks could be heard as the pencils littered the ground.
- The film also stars Jared Leto as Alexander's special boyhood chum, Rosario Dawson as his sex-starved wife, Angelina Jolie as his nagging mother and Val Kilmer as his abusive father.
- The Christmas penny jar will buy more food and drink than we could possibly consume over the holiday and there aren't any goodies I truly fancy finding in my stocking.
- Oman: three horizontal bands of white, red, and green of equal width with a broad, vertical, red band on the hoist side; the national emblem (a khanjar dagger in its sheath superimposed on two crossed swords in scabbards) in white is centered at the top of the vertical band The 2001 CIA World Factbook
- Within four years he managed to dislodge the shah then in place Ahmad Shah Qajar and coronate himself, making his 5-year-old son crown prince. A Monarch Dethroned
- But if there was no national style, there were local variations such as the monasteries and churches at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth in the seventh century. Early medieval architecture: a story of castles and churches
- Brown bags of pasta stand ready to be combined with cans of Italian tuna, homemade pickled vegetables, home-canned tomato sauce, and jars of his favorite imported red peppers.