different between jar vs start

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??t/
• (General American) enPR: stärt, IPA^(key): /st??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English stert, from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below.

Noun

start (plural starts)

1. The beginning of an activity.

   The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
2. A sudden involuntary movement.

   He woke with a start.

   • 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla

     The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me […]

3. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.

   Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.

4. An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.

   Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
5. (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
   • 2009, Liz Primeau, Steven A. Frowine, Gardening Basics For Canadians For Dummies

     You generally see nursery starts at garden centres in mid to late spring. Small annual plants are generally sold in four-packs or larger packs, with each cell holding a single young plant.

6. An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.

   to get, or have, the start

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? German: Start

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (“to rush, fall, collapse”) (Dutch storten), Old High German sturzen (“to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”) (German stürzen), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare.

Verb

start (third-person singular simple present starts, present participle starting, simple past and past participle started)

1. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
   1. To set in motion.
      • April 2, 1716, Joseph Addison, Freeholder No. 30

        I was some years ago engaged in conversation with a fashionable French Abbe, upon a subject which the people of that kingdom love to start in discourse.
   2. To begin.
   4. To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.

   5. To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
   6. To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
      • 1674, William Temple, letter to The Countess of Essex

        Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.

2. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
3. (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.

4. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
   1. (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
      • I start as from some dreadful dream.

      • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard

        Keep your soul to the work when it is ready to start aside.

      • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXXI:

        [...] The tempest's mocking elf / Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf / He strikes on, only when the timbers start.

   2. (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
   3. (transitive) To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
      • c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, Scene i^[2]:

        [...]Upon malicious bravery dost thou come / To start my quiet?

   4. (transitive) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
      • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises

        One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternon.

5. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
6. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
   • 2010, Brian Glanville, The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to South Africa 2010, London: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN, page 361:

     The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on.

7. (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.

8. (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).

Usage notes

• In uses 1.1 and 1.2 this is a catenative verb that takes the infinitive (to) or the gerund (-ing) form. There is no change in meaning.
• For more information, see Appendix:English catenative verbs

Antonyms

• stop
• end

Derived terms

• astart
• start-up
• starter

Descendants

• ? Dutch: starten
• ? German: starten
• ? Norman: stèrter
• ? French: starter
• ? Icelandic: starta
• ? Faroese: starta
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: starte
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: starta
• ? Swedish: starta
• ? Danish: starte
• ? Slovak: štartova?

Translations

See also

Etymology 3

From Middle English stert, start, from Old English steort, stert, from Proto-Germanic *stertaz (“tail”). Cognate with Dutch staart (“tail”), German Sterz (“tail, handle”), Swedish stjärt (“tail, arse”).

Noun

start (plural starts)

1. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
2. A handle, especially that of a plough.
3. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
4. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

Derived terms

1. redstart

Anagrams

• Strat, Tarts, strat, tarts

Breton

Adjective

start

1. firm, strong
2. difficult

Derived terms

• startijenn

Further reading

• Herve Ar Bihan, Colloquial Breton, pages 16 and 268: define "start" as "hard, difficult, firm"

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English start.

Noun

start

1. start

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[3], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English start.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?start]

Noun

start m

1. start (beginning point of a race)

Declension

Related terms

• p?ipravit se, pozor, start

See also

• cíl m

Further reading

• start in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• start in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English start.

Noun

start c (singular definite starten, plural indefinite starter)

1. start

Inflection

Verb

start

1. imperative of starte

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?rt/
• Hyphenation: start
• Rhymes: -?rt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English start.

Noun

start m (plural starts, diminutive startje n)

1. start

Derived terms

• pikstart
• startbaan
• starten
• startpunt

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

start

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of starten
2. imperative of starten

German

Verb

start

1. singular imperative of starten

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English start.

Noun

start m (definite singular starten, indefinite plural starter, definite plural startene)

1. a start

Derived terms

• omstart
• startsted

Etymology 2

Verb

start

1. imperative of starte

References

• “start” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English start.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?rt/

Noun

start m (definite singular starten, indefinite plural startar, definite plural startane)

1. a start (beginning)

Verb

start

1. imperative of starta

Derived terms

• omstart

References

• “start” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English start.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /start/

Noun

start m inan

1. (sports) start (the beginning of a race)
2. (aviation) takeoff

   Z niecierpliwo?ci? czeka?am na start samolotu do Pary?a.

   I was impatiently waiting for the plane to Paris to take off. (=for its take-off)

3. participation

   Wi?kszo?? kibiców ucieszy?a si?, ?e zdecydowa? si? on na start w zawodach.

   Most fans were happy to hear that he had decided to take part in the competition.

Declension

Derived terms

• startowa? (“to start”, verb)
• startowy (“tarting, take-off”, adjective)
• falstart m (“false start”, noun)

Further reading

• start in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English start.

Pronunciation

Noun

start c

1. a start; a beginning (of a race)
2. the starting (of an engine)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• starta
• starter
• startare

References

• start in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• ratts, trast

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English start.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sta?t]
• Hyphenation: start

Noun

start (definite accusative start?, plural startlar)

1. start

Usage notes

As Turks are generally not easily spelling consonants at the beginning of a syllable, this word may often be spelled as [s?ta?t].

Declension

Antonyms

• fini?