Meaning

10 senses
  1. 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.

    Krug, Becher, Topf

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

    Glas, Gefäß

    ба́нкаbánka, скля́нкаskljánka, кувши́нkuvšín

    ба́нкаbánka, сло́їкslójik

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

  4. (Ireland, UK, colloquial)A pint glass

  5. (Ireland, UK, colloquial, metonymically)A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.

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

  7. (also, countable, figuratively)A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.

    Ruck, Erschütterung

  8. (broadly, countable)A sense of alarm or dismay.

    Schock

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

    Zusammenprall

  10. (archaic, countable)A disagreement, a dispute, a quarrel; (uncountable) contention, discord; quarrelling.

    Auseinandersetzung, Streit

More definitions
  • a cylindrical vessel, typically used for storing food
  • the quantity contained in a jar
  • a sudden jarring impact

Examples

226 sentences
  1. Tom tried to open the jar.

    Том спробував відкрити банку.

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  2. Tom opened the jar for me.

    Том відкрив мені банку.

    ruТом открыл мне банку.

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  3. How many beans are in the jar?

    Скільки в банці бобів?

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  4. Tom is still trying to open the jar.

    Том і досі намагається відкрити банку.

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  5. There's a label on the jar.

    На банці є етикетка.

    ruНа банке есть наклейка.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
small, approximately cylindrical container:
Русский
By meaning 1
small, approximately cylindrical container:
Deutsch
By meaning 6
earthenware container:
small, approximately cylindrical container:
vibrating movement or sensation:
sense of alarm:
clash:
dispute or quarrel:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English jarre (“jar”), from Medieval Latin jarra, or from Middle Fre

Inherited from Middle English jarre (“jar”), from Medieval Latin jarra, or from Middle French jarre (“liquid measure”) (from Old French jare; modern French jarre (“earthenware jar”)), or from Spanish jarra, jarro (“jug, pitcher; mug, stein”), all from Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthen receptacle”).

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.

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Forms

plural: jars
Singularjar
Pluraljars

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

35 related words

Collocations

8 patterns
  • open the jar
  • open this jar
  • the jar so
  • this jar for
  • in the jar
  • cookie jar
  • get the jar
  • jar open

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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