0 a glass or clay container with a wide opening at the top and sometimes a fitted lid, usually used for storing food: --
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: --
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: --
4 to disagree or seem wrong or unsuitable: --
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
Faecal samples were obtained from animals that defecated upon handling, and were stored in jars of 10% formalin.
Here is a sound stream that is almost smooth; one might describe it as being knitted from the flashes of a broken jar.
Jumbling bits and pieces of their present and past, these beachcombers present a confusing, jarring picture.
They also were expensive compared with traditional gardeners' bell jars and cloches.
Furthermore, the use of glass jars does not do justice to the enormous surface area of the human colon.
In the glass jar example, 0.6 g of water passes through the container every minute the jar is open.
The 20 g soil 8 oz glass jar volume is compared to both the 16 and 32 oz glass jar volumes.
In addition, the number of larvae per container was reduced to between 20-50 larvae per pint jar of flour to induce feeding.
