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Discord vs Jarring - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between discord and jarring

is that discord is lack of concord, agreement or harmony while jarring is an act of jarring (in any sense).

As verbs the difference between discord and jarring

is that discord is to disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash while jarring is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective jarring is

that jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.

discord

English

Noun

  • Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
  • * Bible, Proverbs vi. 19
    • A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
  • * Burke
    • Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
  • Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
  • (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
  • Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting.

    Related terms

    * discordant * Discordianism

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The one discording with the other.

    jarring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of jarring (in any sense).
    • The jarring of peaches took place at the end of the season.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.
    • (Dryden)