different between jar vs jostle

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: jär
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???/, [d????(?)]
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /d???/, [d????]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /d???/, [d????(?)]
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

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 ??????? (jarra, “earthen receptacle”).

The word is cognate with Italian giara (“jar; crock”), Occitan jarro, Portuguese jarra, jarro (“jug; ewer, pitcher”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

jar (plural jars)

1. (originally) An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial. [from late 16th c.]
3. A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.

   Synonyms: cruse, pot
4. A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• jamjar
• jarful

Related terms

• jorum (possibly related)

Translations

Verb

jar (third-person singular simple present jars, present participle jarring, simple past and past participle jarred)

1. (transitive) To preserve (food) in a jar.

   Synonym: bottle

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps imitative; the noun is derived from the verb.

Noun

jar (countable and uncountable, plural jars)

1. (countable) A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
2. (countable, also figuratively) A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.

   Synonym: jolt
3. (countable, by extension) A sense of alarm or dismay.
4. (countable) The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
5. (countable, now rare) A disagreement, a dispute, a quarrel; (uncountable) contention, discord; quarrelling.

Verb

jar (third-person singular simple present jars, present participle jarring, simple past and past participle jarred)

1. (transitive) To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
2. (transitive) To harm or injure by such action.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To shock or surprise.

4. (transitive, figuratively) To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
6. (intransitive) To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
7. (intransitive, figuratively) Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.

Derived terms

• jarring (adjective)

Translations

Notes

References

Further reading

• jar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• JRA, Raj, ajr, raj

Blagar

Noun

jar

1. water

References

• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 177

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?jar]

Noun

jar

1. genitive plural of jaro

North Frisian

Pronoun

jar

1. them
2. their

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

jar m (definite singular jaren, indefinite plural jarer, definite plural jarene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by jare

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

jar m (definite singular jaren, indefinite plural jarar, definite plural jarane)

1. alternative form of jare

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *j?r

Noun

j?r n

1. year

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: jâer
  • Dutch: jaar
    • Afrikaans: jaar
    • ? Sranan Tongo: yari
  • Limburgish: jaor
  • West Flemish: joar

Further reading

• “j?r”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Frisian

Noun

j?r n

1. Alternative form of j?r (“year”)

Inflection

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *j?r, from Proto-Germanic *j?r?, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?-.

Noun

j?r n

1. year

Descendants

• Middle High German: j?r
  • Alemannic German: Jòòr, Jààr

    Swabian: Joar, Johr

    Sathmar Swabian: Johr

  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: djar

    Mòcheno: jor

  • Central Franconian: Johr

    Hunsrik: Joher

  • German: Jahr
  • Luxembourgish: Joer
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Yaahr

  • Vilamovian: jür
  • Yiddish: ????? (yor)

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• g?r

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *j?r, from Proto-Germanic *j?r?, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?-.

Noun

j?r n

1. year

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: jâr, jaer
  • German Low German: Jahr, Johr

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jar/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *jar?.

Noun

jar m inan

1. (archaic) spring (season)

Declension

Related terms

• (adjectives) jary, jarowy

Etymology 2

From Ukrainian ?? (jar), from a Turkic language.

Noun

jar m inan

1. (geography) ravine, canyon

Declension

Related terms

• (adjective) jarowy

Further reading

• jar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žar?.

Noun

jar n (plural jaruri)

1. burning coals
2. intense heat, fire, glow

Synonyms

• (intense heat): ar?i??, dogoare, c?ldur? mare

Derived terms

• jari?te

See also

• c?rbune
• foc

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jar?, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?ros, from *yeh?r-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jâ?r/

Noun

j?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (archaic, Croatia) spring
2. swelter, intense heat (also figuratively)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:jar.

Semai

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *?ar? (“quick; to run”).

Verb

jar

1. to run

Derived terms

• jerjar
• je'nar

See also

• deeq (“to run away”)

References

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jar?/*jaro, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?ros, from *yeh?r-. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian ???/jar, dialectal Bulgarian and Russian ??? (jara). Non-Slavic cognates include Gothic ???????????? (j?r, “year”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jar/

Noun

jar f (genitive singular jari, nominative plural jari, genitive plural jarí, declension pattern of kos?)

1. spring (season)

Declension

Derived terms

• jarný

See also

• (seasons) ro?né obdobie; jar, jese?, leto, zima ^{(Category: sk:Seasons)}

Further reading

• jar in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Somali

Verb

jar

1. to cut

Tz'utujil

Alternative forms

• ja

Article

jar

1. the

English

Etymology

Originally justle (“to have sex with”), formed from Middle English jousten, from the Old French joster (“to joust”), from Latin iuxt? (“next to”), from iung? (“join, connect”), equivalent to joust +? -le.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??s.?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??.s?l/
• Rhymes: -?s?l

Verb

jostle (third-person singular simple present jostles, present participle jostling, simple past and past participle jostled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, London: J. Johnson, Part 1, Chapter 13, Section 3, pp. 434-435,^[1]

     Besides, various are the paths to power and fame which by accident or choice men pursue, and though they jostle against each other, for men of the same profession are seldom friends, yet there is a much greater number of their fellow-creatures with whom they never clash. But women are very differently situated with respect to each other—for they are all rivals.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening, Chapter 12, p. 214,^[2]

     It is not that there are several systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other, or which clash whenever they come in contact, and which move on by the one vanquishing the other. But, on the contrary, each of these economies takes its uninterrupted course, as if there were no other moving within the same space […]

   • 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Volume 1, Chapter 3, pp. 370-371,^[3]

     […] when the lord of a Lincolnshire or Shropshire manor appeared in Fleet Street, he was as easily distinguished from the resident population as a Turk or a Lascar. […] Bullies jostled him into the kennel. Hackney coachmen splashed him from head to foot. […]
2. (intransitive) To move through by pushing and shoving.
   • 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Chapter 3,^[4]

     Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched.

3. (transitive) To be close to or in physical contact with.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, London: John Murray, Chapter 4, p. 114,^[5]

     […] the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus jostle each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders.

4. (intransitive) To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, in Tales of My Landlord, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Third Series, Volume 1, Chapter 1, p. 22,^[6]

     Dick, who, in serious earnest, was supposed to have considerable natural talents for his profession, and whose vain and sanguine disposition never permitted him to doubt for a moment of ultimate success, threw himself headlong into the crowd which jostled and struggled for notice and preferment.

   • 1917, Rudyard Kipling, “The Children,” poem accompanying the story “The Honours of War” in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan, pp. 129-130,^[7]

     […] Our statecraft, our learning

     Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning

     Whither they mirthfully hastened as jostling for honour.

5. (dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.

Translations

See also

• justle
• joust

Noun

jostle (plural jostles)

1. The act of jostling someone or something; push, shove.
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: J. Cooke, 1765, p. 241,^[8]

     I had full hold of her Watch, but giving a great Jostle, as if somebody had thrust me against her, and in the Juncture giving the Watch a fair pull, I found it would not come, so I let it go that Moment, and cried out as if I had been killed, that somebody had trod upon my Foot […]

2. The action of a jostling crowd.
   • 1865, Harriet Beecher Stowe (under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield), The Chimney-Corner, Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1868, Chapter 12, p. 291,^[9]

     For years to come, the average of lone women will be largely increased; and the demand, always great, for some means by which they many provide for themselves, in the rude jostle of the world, will become more urgent and imperative.

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