jar Význam & definícia

Význam jar v slovenčine

• 0 a glass or clay container with a wide opening at the top and sometimes a fitted lid, usually used for storing food:

  • a jar of coffee/pickled onions

  • a jam jar

  • We often have a jar or two at the pub after work.

• 1 a sudden forceful or unpleasant shake or movement:

  • With every jar of the carriage, the children shrieked with excitement.

• 2 to shake or move someone or something unpleasantly or violently:

  • The sudden movement jarred his injured ribs.

• 3 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:

  • The harsh colours jarred the eye.

  • A screech of brakes jarred the silence.

• 4 to disagree or seem wrong or unsuitable:

  • This comment jars with the opinions we have heard expressed elsewhere.

• 5 a cylindrical container, usually made of glass, with a wide top opening, and used esp. for storing food, or the amount held by such a container:

  • a jar of pickles/mayonnaise

  • He poured half the jar into his cup.

• 6 to give a sudden shake to someone or something:

  • He kind of jars people when he tackles them.

  • The train’s rumbling jarred them out of their sleep.

• 7 to cause action or activity, or to have an effect:

  • [ T ] He was jarred into political action by events on the national scene.