jarnoun [ C ]
uk/dʒɑːr/us/dʒɑːr/jar noun [ C ] (CONTAINER)
B1 a glass or clay container with a wide opening at the top and sometimes a fitted lid, usually used for storing food:
UK informal a drink of beer:
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- Would you put the jar back into the cupboard for me, please?
- Can you get the lid off this jar?
- I keep pennies and other small coins in a jar.
- Screw the lid firmly on to the jar and shake well.
- Turn the jar upside down and shake it.
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Containers for liquids and gases
- aerosol
- amphora
- barrel
- bottle
- bucket
- canister
- flask
- inkwell
- jeroboam
- jerrycan
- jug
- keg
- Kilner jar
- oilcan
- pitcher
- vase
- vat
- vial
- water bottle
- water tank
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jar noun [ C ] (SHAKE)
a sudden forceful or unpleasant shake or movement:
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Making short, sudden movements
- aquiver
- convulse
- convulsion
- convulsive
- cringe
- flick
- jig
- jiggle
- jolt
- judder
- leap
- palpitate
- pull away
- quiver
- shivery
- shrink
- tremulous
- whip
- worry at sth
- wriggle
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jarverb
uk/dʒɑːr/us/dʒɑːr/-rr-jar verb (SHAKE)
[ I or T ] to shake or move someone or something unpleasantly or violently:
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Making short, sudden movements
- aquiver
- convulse
- convulsion
- convulsive
- cringe
- flick
- jig
- jiggle
- jolt
- judder
- leap
- palpitate
- pull away
- quiver
- shivery
- shrink
- tremulous
- whip
- worry at sth
- wriggle
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jar verb (NOT PLEASANT)
[ I or T ] If a sight, sound, or experience jars, it is so different or unexpected that it has a strong and unpleasant effect on something or someone:
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Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- be laughing on the other side of your face idiom
- bite
- burn
- haunt
- hit/touch a (raw) nerve idiom
- horrify
- hurt sb's feelings idiom
- hurtful
- laugh
- mess
- nose
- shake
- tear sb apart
- tear sb's heart out idiom
- torture
- traumatize
- twist/turn the knife (in the wound) idiom
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jar verb (NOT RIGHT)
[ I ] to disagree or seem wrong or unsuitable:
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Balance and imbalance
- accord
- accord with sth
- align
- alignment
- balance (sth) out/up
- balance of power
- balanced
- equilibrium
- harmonize
- harmony
- imbalance
- jarring
- offset
- on an even keel idiom
- one man's loss is another man's gain idiom
- realign
- square (sth) with sth
- strike a balance idiom
- symmetry
- wash
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