Jar vs Glass - What's the difference?

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As a proper noun glass is

jar

English

(wikipedia jar)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of glass or clay, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.

Synonyms

* pot

Derived terms

* cookie jar * jam jar, jamjar * mason jar * spice jar

Etymology 2

Unknown; perhaps imitative.

Verb

To knock or strike sharply.

He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.

To shock or surprise.

I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn't gotten back in a car since.

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.

The notes jarred on my ears.

* Shakespeare:

When such strings jar , what hope of harmony?

* Roscommon:

A string may jar in the best master's hand.

To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute.

* Spenser:

When those renowned noble peers Greece / Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar .

* Milton:

For orders and degrees / Jar not with liberty, but well consist.

Noun

(en noun)

A shake.

A sense of alarm or dismay.

Discord, contention; quarrelling.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:

He maketh warre, he maketh peace againe, / And yet his peace is but continuall iarre [...].

* 1612 , John Smith, Proceedings , in Kupperman 1988, page 122:

To redresse those jarres and ill proceedings, the Councell in England altered the governement and devolved the authoritie to the Lord De-la-ware.

Synonyms

* (knock sharply) (l)

Derived terms

* (l)

Anagrams

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glass

English

(wikipedia glass)

Noun

(lb) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.

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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass' sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain ' glass paperweight.}}

A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.

The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.

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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass .

(lb) Glassware.

A mirror.

A magnifying glass or telescope.

(lb) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.

# The backboard.

#(lb) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.

A barometer.

*(Louis MacNeice) (1907-1963)

*:The glass is falling hour by hour.

Transparent or translucent.

(lb) An hourglass.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:She would not live / The running of one glass .

Derived terms

* carnival glass * cheval glass * eyeglasses * glassblower * glassblowing * glasses * glassformer * glass frog * glasshouse * glass jaw * glassless * glassmaker * glassware * glasswork * glassworker * glassy * isinglass * looking glass * magnifying glass * spyglass

Descendants

* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l),

Verb

(es)

To furnish with glass; to glaze.

(Boyle)

To enclose with glass.

(Shakespeare)

To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.

* 1987, John Godber, Bouncers p. 19:

JUDD. Any trouble last night?

LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed .

* 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale p. 72:

I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed , or viciously assaulted.

* 2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp p. 139:

One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.

(label) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.

* 2012 , Halo: First Strike, p. 190:

*:“The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.

To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.

* 2000 , Ben D. Mahaffey, 50 Years of Hunting and Fishing , page 95:

Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.

To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

(archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.

* Motley

Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.

* Byron

Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.

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