jarn.1
/dʒɑː/, U.S. /dʒɑr/ I. A sound or vibration.† 2. A vibration or tick of the clock; cf. jar v.1 2. Obsolete. rare.
1. A harsh inharmonious sound or combination of sounds; †spec. in Music, A discord (obsolete).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun] > sound > combination of
jar1553
collision1625
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > discord
jar1553
discord1582
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 88v Composicion..is an apte ioynyng together of wordes in suche order, that neither the eare shal espie any ierre, nor yet [etc.].
1586 W. Massie Marriage Serm. i. sig. A7 A litle iarre in musick is not easily espied.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 5 If he compact of iarres, grow Musicall, We shall haue shortly discord in the Spheares. View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxviii. 259 When the jars of crowders shall be thought good musick.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 257 With rash and aukward force the chord he shakes, And grins with wonder at the jar he makes.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 72 The critic's fastidious ear listens to nothing but the jar of rude rhymes.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > tick or vibration of
jara1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 43 I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind What Lady she her Lord. View more context for this quotation
3. A quivering or grating sound; a tremulous or harsh vibration of sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun] > sound
ganglinga1387
noise?a1425
jarring1555
jangling1581
discord1589
caterwauling1594
latration1623
tingle-tanglea1635
jar1669
crank1786
jangle1795
discordancy1796
inharmony1799
discordance1801
parrot-house1850
soundclash1925
ear-bender1940
1669 W. Holder Elem. Speech 51 The impulse of Breath strikes upon the end of the Tongue, whereby the sound is affected with a trembling jarre.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby v. iv. 210 Bolt and bar Resumed their place with sullen jar.
1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter ii. 9 House after house echoed upon his passage with a ghostly jar.
4. A vibration or tremulous movement resulting from concussion, esp. a movement of this kind running through the body or nerves; a thrill of the nerves, mind, or feelings caused by, or resembling the effect of, a physical shock.
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the world > movement > impact > [noun] > forcible, heavy, or violent > shock of violent impact or collision
brunta1450
concussion1490
shock1603
jolt1632
impression1694
jara1817
perculsion1822
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > shock
shock1804
jara1817
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. xii. 259 She..ran up the steps to be jumped down again. He advised her against it, thought the jar too great. View more context for this quotation
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 417 Such exercise as gives a general jar to the animal frame, as riding a hard-trotting horse.
1852 F. W. Robertson Two Lect. Working Classes i. 7 I know what it is to feel the jar of nerve gradually cease.
1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 131 It is a jar to the mind, like coming down three steps without notice.
II. Discord, divergence.
5. Discord, want of harmony, disagreement; a divergence or conflict of opinions, etc.; †a discrepancy of statement (obsolete).
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun]
discordance1340
variancec1374
discorda1387
disconvenience?a1425
unsuingc1425
disaccordancec1436
unaccordancec1449
inconveniencec1460
discrepancea1464
difformness1547
disagreeance1548
disagreeing1548
jar1548
disagreement1551
disagreeableness1570
dissonancy1584
discordancy1587
discoherencea1600
disconveniency1601
disharmonya1602
dissent1603
dissonancea1604
incongruency1604
incongruence1610
incongruity1612
discongruity1624
inconformity1625
discorrespondencya1641
inconsonancy1650
inconsistence1651
dissidy1657
unagreeableness1658
discomposure1659
disconsonancy1659
uncorrespondency1659
inconveniency1662
unconsonancy1665
incorrespondence1667
oddness1680
inconsistency1699
incongruousness1727
irreconcilementa1737
discrepancy1748
incoincidence?1798
inaccordance1808
inconsonance1811
inaccordancy1817
incorrespondency1817
cacophony1831
divergence1837
disaccord1871
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > inconsistency or contradiction > an instance of being inconsistent > specific between statements, documents, etc.
variance1429
jar1548
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John x. verse 19 There fel a newe iar in opinions among the people.
1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 21 The iarre in the number of the Judges, I labour not to reconcile.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 16 Not..admitting discord, and iarre in things whereof the one should be as the true exposition of the other.
1893 in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. II. 837 [If] there has been no such jar in the original creation as the doctrine of sin implies.
6.
a. Discord manifested in strife or contention; variance, dissension, quarrelling.
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society > society and the community > dissent > [noun]
unsibeOE
unsaughta1122
un-i-sibc1275
conteckc1290
discordingc1325
distancec1325
discordance1340
dissensionc1384
batea1400
discordc1425
variancec1425
variationc1485
disgreement?1504
distinction1520
factiona1538
jar1546
variety1546
disagreeance1548
disagreeing1548
disagreement1548
misliking1564
odds1567
mislikea1586
discordancy1587
disagree1589
distancy1595
dissent1596
dislike1598
secting1598
dichostasy1606
fraction1609
dissentation1623
ill blood1624
misintelligence1632
clashing1642
misunderstanding1642
discomposure1659
disjointinga1715
uneasiness1744
friction1760
misunderstand1819
unharmony1866
inharmony1867
trouble at (the or t') mill1967
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ii. sig. G Alone to bed she went. This was their begynnyng of iar.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. O3v He maketh warre, he maketh peace againe, And yett his peace is but continuall iarre.
1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man xv. §2. 306 The continual conversation that is among them..will be apt to minister some occasion of jar.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 294 Thy senate is a scene of civil jar.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xcii. 137 They can but listen at the gates And hear the household jar within. View more context for this quotation
b. A dissension, dispute, quarrel. In later use chiefly with reference to petty (esp. domestic) quarrels.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > a quarrel
controversy1448
tencion?1473
brulyie1531
pique1532
feudc1565
quarrel1566
jar1583
controverse1596
brack1600
outcast1620
rixation1623
controversarya1635
simultya1637
outfall1647
outfallingc1650
controversion1658
démêlé1661
embroilment1667
strut1677
risse1684
rubber1688
fray1702
brulyiement1718
fallout1725
tossa1732
embroil1742
ding-dong?1760
pilget1777
fratch1805
spar1836
splutter1838
bust-up1842
whid1847
chip1854
kass-kass1873
wap1887
run-in1894
go-round1898
blue1943
hassle1945
square-up?1949
ruck1958
1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. v. 212 Brawles, iarres, and vnkindnesse betwixt man and wife before their children and seruants.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 234 Now there were no jars, no chiding..in all the Town of Mansoul. View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 40 The vanquish'd Party shall their Claim release, And the long Jars conclude in lasting Peace.
1848 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 101 535 Ireland has long been a country of jars and turmoil.
1853–7 R. C. Trench Less. Proverbs i. 20 Women's jars breed men's wars.
1887 A. Jessopp Arcady i. 5 Once or twice a family jar put two households at war.
c. at (a) jar, †at jars: at discord, in a state of dissension or variance. †to fall at jar: to fall out, to quarrel (obsolete). Cf. ajar adv.2 Now rare.
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society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase]
in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275
in strife1398
at traversc1448
at issue1474
at a strife1488
at variancea1535
at square1545
at (a) jar1552
at (or to) daggers' drawing1556
at (a) mutiny1567
in (a) mutiny1567
at wrig-wrag1599
at daggers drawn1668
at (or at the, on the) outs1824
loggerhead1831
at daggers' points1857
at swords' points1890
society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)]
threapc1175
disputea1225
thretec1400
varyc1450
fray1465
to fall out1470
to set (or fall) at variancec1522
quarrel1530
square1530
to break a straw1542
to be or to fall at (a) square1545
to fall at jar1552
cowl1556
tuilyie1565
jarl1580
snarl1597
to fall foul1600
to cast out1730
fisticuff1833
spat1848
cagmag1882
rag1889
to part brass-rags1898
hassle1949
blue1955
1552 Acts Privy Council 23 July (1892) IV. 102 A letter to the Mayour and townes men of Excestre willing them..to contynnewe in frendship with..the gentlemen with whome they were lately at jarre.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1534/2 You are at iarre emongest your selues.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 77/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I The Citizens and Ormond his army, fell at some iarre.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 122 The Germane princes were still at a jarre about the choice of their emperours.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 74 An hugger-mugger of meddlesom beings all at jars.
a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 220 The hues of colour in the sky and distance must frequently be at jar with the light and shade of the advanced parts.
1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 139 The life seen and temporal, and the life eternal are at a jar.
III. Technical use in drilling.
7. A method of connecting the bit and the rods or cable in an apparatus for drilling rocks by impact, by means of which at each up-stroke a jar of the bit is produced which jerks it upwards though it may be tightly wedged in the hole.
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society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > [noun] > other procedures
jar1865
run1880
round trip1900
shooting1914
swabbing1921
underreaming1922
acidization1934
squeeze cementing1938
mud logging1960
re-entry1961
stab1972
upending1976
society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > boring tool > for boring in the ground > method of connecting boring rods and bit
jar1865
1865 G. W. Gesner A. Gesner's Pract. Treat. Coal (ed. 2) ii. 28 The downward stroke of the walking-beam releases the Auger Stem and Bit for an instant as the Jars slide together, and they fall the distance necessary to penetrate the rock, and are again lifted by the Jars on the upward stroke.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 148 Jars, a part of percussion-drilling apparatus for deep holes..which by producing at each up-stroke a decided jar of the bit jerks it up.
1883 Cent. Mag. July 330/1 The ‘jars’, two heavy bars linked together.
IV. With reference to birds and insects.
8. A representation of the harsh vibratory sound made by certain birds and insects, used to form their popular names, as jar-bird n., jar-fly n., jar-owl n.; hence transferred to the animal, etc., as in eve-jar n., nightjar n.
Compounds
jar ramming n. Founding = jolt ramming n. at jolt n. Compounds.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > founding or casting > specific processes involved in
rapping1851
false coring1866
sweeping1902
jar ramming1909
jolt ramming1909
jolt-squeeze1931
shell-moulding1951
1909 Iron Age LXXXIV. 1165/1 The working foundry~man has carried this development, especially as applied to what are known as jolt or jar ramming machines, far beyond what was anticipated.
1912 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 86 546 A jar-ramming moulding-machine with a roll-over device, which also lowers the mould away from the pattern, is described.
1934 J. Laing & R. T. Rolfe Man. Foundry Pract. v. 102 (heading) Jolt- or jar-ramming.
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jarn.2
/dʒɑː/, U.S. /dʒɑr/ 1. A vessel of earthenware, stoneware, or glass, without spout or handle (or having two handles), usually more or less cylindrical in form. Originally used only in its eastern sense of a large earthen vessel for holding water, oil, wine, etc. (See quots.) Leyden jar, an electrical condenser consisting of a cylindrical glass jar lined inside and outside nearly to the top with tin foil, the inner coating being connected at the top with a brass rod which ends in a knob.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > jar > [noun]
steanc1050
jar1600
bottle1683
1600 J. Twitt in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 568 Wee descryed a frigat..wherein were 22. iarres of copper-money.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 469 At the dore there is a great iarre of water, with a..Ladle in it, and there they wash their feete.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxv. 199 The Glass did..fall down to the bottom of the Jar.
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 48 I found that..hanging some lead, in the iarres, it continued perfect good.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 19 May (1965) I. 414 The Gallerys..are adorn'd with Jars of Flowers.
1750 B. Franklin Let. 25 Dec. in Wks. (1887) II. 210 The shock from two large glass jars, containing as much electrical fire as forty common phials.
1832 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. Electr. viii. 34 This instrument having been made known principally through the experiments of Kleist, Cuneus, and Muschenbroeck, at Leyden, the name of the Leyden phial, or jar, was generally applied to it.
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xxiii. 544 The jars and pottery of Korkyra enjoyed great reputation.
2. † b. A unit of electrical capacity (see quot. 19201). Obsolete.
a. Such a vessel and its contents; hence, as much as a jar will hold, a jarful. Formerly a measure of capacity varying according to the commodity.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > jar as unit
jar1598
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > jar
jar1848
jarful1866
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Giara, Giarra,..also a certaine measure of liquid things, which we call a iarre.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Jar (Span. Jarro..), with us it is most usually taken for a vessel of twenty Gallons of Oyl.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Jarr of Oil, an Earthen Vessel containing from 18 to 26 Gallons; A Jarr of green Ginger is about a Hundred Pounds Weight.
1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 3 Sir, Spain has sent a thousand jars of oyl.
1848 L. Hunt (title) A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric charge, electricity > [noun] > unit of measurement > unit of capacitance
farad1873
jar1920
pico-farad1926
1834 W. S. Harris in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1833 387 The unit of measure consists of a small electrical jar, having a discharging electrometer.
1889 A. W. Poyser Magn. & Electr. xiii. 139 Harris's unit jar.—This instrument is used for measuring the charge given to a Leyden jar.]
1920 Admiralty Handbk. Wireless Telegr. iii. 68 1 farad = ..9 x 108 (nine hundred million) ‘jars’.
1920 Admiralty Handbk. Wireless Telegr. iii. 68 The jar is a Service unit, and is very useful when dealing with small capacities.
1920 Admiralty Handbk. Wireless Telegr. viii. 245 Provide a condenser composed of two elements of 100 jars each.
1932 Admiralty Handbk. Wireless Telegr. 1931 vi. 338 The low reactance of even minute capacities and the easy shunt paths they provide..may best be realised by giving a comparative table of the reactances of a capacity of 1 jar and an inductance of 100 microhenries at various frequencies.
c. A drink (of beer, etc.). colloquial.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > [noun] > drink of
plug1816
jar1925
tank1936
1925 S. O'Casey Juno & Paycock i, in Two Plays 42 Boyle. An' now, Mr. Bentham, you'll have to have a wet. Bentham. A wet? Boyle. A wet—a jar—a boul!
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 38 Jar, a pint or ‘handle’ of beer.
1961 C. Willock Death in Covert i. 8 ‘Have a jar, Goss,’ he said, and poured him at least three fingers of whisky.
1966 P. Moloney Plea for Mersey 56 Whan lads frae Scotty Road gang far, Untae the boozer for a jar.
1969 V. Canning Queen's Pawn iii. 41 Hot morning. Care for a jar? They keep good beer.
1972 Observer 26 Nov. 26/4 The painter, Raymond Piper, took us for a jar at his local.
1973 New Society 6 Sept. 563/1 A great place to meet old friends and make new ones, to knock back the jars and sit gossiping into the early hours.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as jar radiation, jar-like adj.
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1880 A. Wilson in Gentleman's Mag. 246 42 These animals are given to eject water from their jar-like bodies.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 May 6/2 The discharges of a Leyden jar were sent through the primary wire of an oil induction coil. The wave-length of the jar radiation was three hundred metres.
C2. † jar-glass n. Obsolete a low glass vessel shaped like a gallipot.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > jar > [noun] > low glass jar
jar-glass?1600
?1600 H. Plat Delightes for Ladies sig. C12 Put it vp in gally pots, or Iarre glasses.
1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 256 Take a flat glass, we call them jarr glasses, strew in a lair of fine sugar.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. viii. 334/2 Keep it in a Jar-glass or Gallypot, tyed close over with a wet Bladder for use.
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jarn.3
/dʒɑː/, U.S. /dʒɑr/ archaic or colloquial.
In the phrases on (upon) the jar, †on (a) jar, †at jar, on the turn, partly open, ajar adv.1: cf. chare n.1 2b.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [phrase] > partly open (of doors, etc.)
on (upon) the jar1674
off the latch1842
off the sneck1897
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 7 The fulfilledness or perfection of the will in the next life, will not be in a standing at jar, and wavering alike towards good and evil.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 45 Finding a Door upon the jar.
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xiii. 19 The door was on the jar, and, gently opening it, I entered and stood behind her unperceived.
1794 A. M. Bennett Ellen II. 112 She found..the hall door on jar.
a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) ii. ii, in Wks. (1821) II. 46 She never absolutely shuts her mouth, but leaves it always on a jar, as it were,—thus.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiii. 361 ‘I see Mrs. Bardell's street door on the jar.’ ‘On the what?’ exclaimed the little Judge. ‘Partly open, my lord,’ said Sergeant Snubbin.
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jarv.1
/dʒɑː/, U.S. /dʒɑr/ I. Senses relating to the sound.† 2. intransitive. Of a clock (or, of minutes): To tick. Also (in quot. 1597) transitive. To cause to tick. Obsolete.
1. † b. To produce a harsh or grating sound on or as on a musical instrument. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To make or emit a harsh grating sound; to make a musical discord; to sound harshly or in discord with other sounds. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > harsh or discordant [verb (intransitive)]
yerrOE
discorda1398
jangle1494
missoundc1500
jara1529
jarglec1550
harsh1582
chide1594
caterwaul1621
murr1662
wrangle1816
girl1820
crank1827
saxophone1927
a1529 J. Skelton Howe Douty Duke of Albany in Wks. (1568) sig. F.viiiv Ye muse somwhat to far All out of ioynt ye iar.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 76v Thei would bestowe greate labour and diligence to sette the strynges in right tune, and had maners gerryng quite and clene out of all good accorde or frame.
1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Matius in Panoplie Epist. 115 Iarringe, and snarringe at me like dogs.
1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 35 v The Brittish language, which sweet vowels wants, And iarres so much vpon harsh consonants.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. v. sig. Iv The strings of natures symphony Are crackt, & iar.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. viii. 21 Though with the clock they have given the last stroke, yet they keep a jarring, muttering to themselves a good while after.
1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick vi. xiii. 189 If it..ring clearly, it is whole; if it do jar, it is cracked somewhere.
1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 157. ⁋10 She jarrs and is out of Tune very often in Conversation.
1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles (1789) iv. 10 Rivers of peace attend his song..He jars; and, lo! the flints are broke.
1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III iv. 5 Perchance my heart and harp have lost a string, And both may jar.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > play instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play discordantly
jumble1530
jar1581
rasp1808
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 93 Many other good men iarryng alwayes upon the same stryng, mistooke the note as I did.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. O3v Brauely did hee drum on this Cutwolfes bones..iarring on them quaueringly with his hammer.
1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. G 4v Whose accents like the tunes of Angels are, Compard with whom Arions did but iarre.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [verb (intransitive)] > tick
jar1592
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [verb (transitive)] > cause to tick
jar1592
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. H4 The belles towlling..the Minutes iering, and the Clocke striking twelue.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. v. 51 My thoughts are minutes, and with sighes they iarre, Their watches on vnto mine eyes. View more context for this quotation
1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica iv. cvii He heares no waking clocke, nor watch to iarre.
3. intransitive. To strike against something (or each other) with a grating sound, or so as to cause vibration; to clash. Const. upon, with, against.
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the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > forcibly or violently > with sound or vibration
shatter?a1400
jar1665
slap1840
1665 [implied in: R. Hooke Micrographia vi. 13 Another Instance of the strange loosening nature of a violent jarring Motion. (at jarring adj. 2)].
1713 Guardian 25 Aug. 1/1 He came..incumbered with a Bar of Cold Iron..[which] banged against his Calf, and jarred upon his Right Heel as he walked.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 68 As broad-sword upon target jarred.
1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) xiii. 327 His boat of life had already jarred upon the soft shores of the eternal land.
4. intransitive. With reference to the sensation caused by discordant sound: To sound harshly in (obsolete), or fall with harsh effect on, the ear. Hence, To strike with discordant or painful effect upon the nerves, feelings, mind, conscience, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > unpleasant sound [verb (intransitive)] > wound the ears
jara1538
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 43 Hyt sounyth veray yl, hyt jarryth in myn yerys to gyve such powar to blynd fortune.
1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire II. xiii. 82 Of all his audacious innovations, none, perhaps, jarred more upon the prejudices of his countrymen.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists i. 54 His laugh jars on one's ear after seven score years.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §5. 322 The iniquity of the proposal jarred against the public conscience.
1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 78 There was something in her manner..which jarred painfully on his feelings.
5. intransitive. Of the body affected: (a) to vibrate audibly; to resound, clatter, or rattle with a grating or grinding sound; (b) (hence, without reference to sound) to vibrate, shiver, or shake, from an impact or shock.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > rattle
rattlec1330
hoursch?a1400
rottlea1400
ruttlea1400
ricklec1400
to tirl at the latch, at the sneck15..
clitter1530
ruckle1700
jar1735
knock1869
ratchet1907
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > shake > shake from impact
dirl1718
jar1735
1735 J. Wesley Wks. (1830) I. 21 The ship shook and jarred with so unequal grating a motion.
1742 M. Plant in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 40 We had a great Shock; it made my House shake much, and the Windows jar.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xx. 203 The incumber'd earth jarr'd under foot.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 102/1 May be applied to the doors and windows..where subject to jar or vibrate.
6. transitive. To cause to sound discordantly.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > harsh or discordant [verb (transitive)]
chide1590
jangle1604
jar1633
1633 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. (ed. 3) §80 When once they [bells] jarre, and check each other..how harsh and unpleasing is that noise.
1840 T. De Quincey Casuistry in Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 266/2 Every impulse of bad health jars or untunes some string in the fine harp of human volition.
1863 J. G. Whittier Andrew Rykman's Prayer 107 I alone the beauty mar, I alone the music jar.
7.
a. To cause to vibrate; to shake into vibration; to trill. In quot. 1568 to grind (the teeth).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > harsh or discordant [verb (transitive)] > grate > grind or gnash (teeth)
grind1340
grunta1400
crashc1440
graislea1522
grate1555
jar1568
beat1597
champ1775
grit1797
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (transitive)]
vibratea1684
jar1790
mirr1866
1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 42 And breake the bragges of curssed curres, that iarre their teeth at thée.
1790 J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. Introd. §419 The rough r is formed by jarring the tip of the tongue against the roof of the mouth near the fore teeth.
1820 W. Irving Westm. Abbey in Sketch Bk. vii. 22 Music..fills the vast pile, and seems to jar the very walls.
1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 157 The blow must have jarred the hand of Shifty Dick up to his very shoulder.
1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table vii. 206 A sudden gust..jars all the windows.
b. To cause the nerves or feelings to vibrate painfully, to send a shock through.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > state of being shocked > be shocked at [verb (transitive)] > shock
startle1598
scandal1643
shock1656
scandalize1676
jar1789
rock1881
shake1943
traumatize1949
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 12 The fine paved road..jars the nerves terribly.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc v. 393 Discord of dreadful sounds That jarr'd the soul.
1821 Ld. Byron Cain iii. i, in Sardanapalus 417 Since That saying jars you, let us only say—'Twere better that he never had been born.
8.
a. To injure by concussion or impact.
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the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > forcibly or violently > injure or damage by
shock1726
jar1875
1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost viii. 214 If you take in hand a musical instrument that has been broken or jarred, all its notes jangle in discord.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. 359 This blood comes from the wall of an abscess jarred and torn by the succussion of the harassing cough.
b. To roughen, as by concussion or impact.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > make uneven [verb (transitive)] > make rough
engrail1576
roughen1582
unplain1611
unsmooth1626
asperate1656
granulate1692
to rough upa1722
rough1728
ruffle1731
jar18..
crizzle1821
bristle1872
grain1888
18.. O. Byrne Handbk. Artisan 338 The face of the polishing-lap is hacked or jarred.
9. To drill by impact, as a rock; to use a drill-jar upon: cf. jar n.1 7 (Funk.)
10. To drive by a jarring sound.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > by type of sound
jar1821
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > harsh or discordant [verb (transitive)] > drive by harsh sound
jar1821
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iii. ii. 96 Man, thou hast struck upon the chord which jars All nature from my heart.
II. Senses relating to discord or divergence.† 13. transitive. To bring to disunion or discord. Obsolete.
11.
a. intransitive. To be out of harmony or at discord in character or effect; to be at variance; to disagree; to conflict. Of persons (obsolete), or of opinions, statements, systems, etc.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > be unharmonious or incongruous [verb (intransitive)] > be in opposition or conflict
thwart1519
jar?1541
interferea1644
clash1646
conflict1647
collide1864
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Eiij, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens In this thynge almost all the maysters of medycyne do agre, albeit that in sondry thynges they iarre.
1563 A. Broke (title) Agreemente of sondry Places of Scripture, seeming in shew to iarre.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 49/2 The Gospell is not a doctrine iarring from the lawe that Moses published in Gods name.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 793 Orders and Degrees Jarr not with liberty, but well consist. View more context for this quotation
1764 C. Churchill Gotham iii. 27 Making those jar, whom Reason meant to join.
1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vi. 163 This verse..jars with the words which precede and follow.
b. To come into conflict, to clash.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > be in dissension or at variance [verb (intransitive)] > clash or come into conflict
to fall foul1601
jar1621
clash1622
collide1864
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. ii. xi. 44 They often jarre, Reason is over-borne by Passion.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 174. ⁋1 And yet those Interests are ever jarring.
1851 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) ii. 144 Clashing sympathies jarred the more harshly within him.
12. intransitive. To be at strife or active variance; to quarrel; to dispute, bicker, wrangle.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in noisy or angry manner
flitec900
chidec1000
strivec1290
scold1377
wrangle1377
jangle1382
brawlc1440
bickera1450
to have words1490
altercate1530
jar1550
brangle1553
brabble1568
yed1570
fraple?a1598
barrat1600
warble1600
camp1606
to word it1612
caterwaul1621
cample1628
pickeer1651
spar1698
fratch1714
rafflea1796
row1797
barney1850
dudgeon1859
frabble1885
scrap1895
1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Fiii They wil ierre now a daies one wyth an other, except they haue al.
1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Fiiiv When they haue ierred thei haue both gon to wracke.
1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Brennus xxxi O rather now, my sonnes, leaue of to iar.
c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta ii. ii We will not jar about the price.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 125 If intestine Broils allarm the Hive,..The Vulgar in divided Factions jar . View more context for this quotation
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 15 Body and Soul, like peevish Man and Wife, United jar, and yet are loath to part.
1840 Lady C. M. C. Bury Hist. Flirt xi We were everlastingly jarring and saying disagreeable things to each other.
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society > society and the community > dissent > become at variance with [verb (transitive)] > cause (dissension) > set (people) at variance
to-bear971
to cast (in) a bone1498
to set (or fall) at variancec1522
to set by the ears?1566
distract1597
to set outa1610
jarc1615
dissentiate1628
vary1795
c1615 J. Sylvester tr. H. Smith Map of Man We build and batter, ioyne and iarre, We heap and scatter, make and marre.
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxii. sig. V8v Giue it to the fairest, was it, which jarr'd the Goddesses.
Derivatives
jarred adj. /dʒɑːd/
/dʒɑːd/ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > state of being shocked > [adjective]
outraged1836
shocked1840
shook1891
jarred1892
1892 A. I. Ritchie Rec. Tennyson iii. vii. 211 He was in a jarred and troubled state.
1899 Ld. Rosebery in Daily News 28 Oct. 6/5 This little island..viewed..with such jarred ambition by the great Empires of the world.
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jarv.2
/dʒɑː/, U.S. /dʒɑr/ transitive. To preserve (fruit) in a jar; to bottle. Also transferred.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > preserve in other vessel
bottle1723
glass1728
jar1747
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xviii. 152 (heading) To jar Cherries.
1962 Guardian 24 Dec. 4/3 There's no point in jarring it away. You have to buy clothes with anything you get.
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