Bronze vs Jar - What's the difference?
bronze | jar |
(uncountable) A natural or man-made alloy of copper, usually of tin, but also with one or more other metals.
(countable, and, uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
(countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
A bronze medal.
Boldness; impudence; brass.
* Alexander Pope
Made of bronze metal.
*
*:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
Having a reddish-brown colour.
(lb) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
To plate with bronze.
To color bronze.
(of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
* 2006 , Melissa Lassor, "Out of Darkness", page 124 in Watching Time
To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
* Sir Walter Scott
A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of glass or clay, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
To knock or strike sharply.
To shock or surprise.
To look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly.
* Shakespeare:
* Roscommon:
To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute.
* Spenser:
* Milton:
A shake.
A sense of alarm or dismay.
Discord, contention; quarrelling.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
* 1612 , John Smith, Proceedings , in Kupperman 1988, page 122:
As a noun bronze
is bronze.As an initialism jar is
(software|java).bronze
English
(wikipedia bronze)Noun
- Embrown'd with native bronze , lo! Henley stands.
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
(terms derived from bronze) * arsenical bronze * bell bronze * Bronze Age * bronze medal * Bronze Star * bronzite * phosphor bronzeVerb
(bronz)- My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
- His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
- the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead
See also
* Brindisi * Cycladic * Hallstatt * Helladic * Minoan * penny *Anagrams
* ----jar
English
(wikipedia jar)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* potDerived terms
* cookie jar * jam jar, jamjar * mason jar * spice jarEtymology 2
Unknown; perhaps imitative.Verb
- He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.
- I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn't gotten back in a car since.
- The notes jarred on my ears.
- When such strings jar , what hope of harmony?
- A string may jar in the best master's hand.
- When those renowned noble peers Greece / Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar .
- For orders and degrees / Jar not with liberty, but well consist.
Noun
(en noun)- He maketh warre, he maketh peace againe, / And yet his peace is but continuall iarre [...].
- To redresse those jarres and ill proceedings, the Councell in England altered the governement and devolved the authoritie to the Lord De-la-ware.