jar

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a vessel, usually cylindrical, with a wide mouth and without handles

   I wish I had a jar of pickled cabbage.

2. 2
   noun

   the quantity contained in a jar

   I drank a jar of beer.

3. 3
   verb

   place in a cylindrical vessel

   jar the jam

4. 4
   verb

   affect in a disagreeable way

   This play jarred the audience

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

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

   A smaller plate was immersed, while the combustion was in active operation, in a glass jar of carbonic acid gas without any diminution of the incandescence of its surface, showing that the combustion is independent of the atmosphere in which takes place.

8. 8
   noun

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

   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.

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.