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Jar is a related term of jog.


As an initialism jar

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As a noun jog is

a form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot.

As a verb jog is

to push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.

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

    * (l) ----

    jog

    English

    (wikipedia jog)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot.

    • Verb

    (jogg)
  • To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
    • jog one's elbow
  • * John Donne
    • Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see / Yonder well-favoured youth?
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid / Fast by my side.
  • To shake, stir or rouse.
    • I tried desperately to jog my memory.
  • (exercise) To move in an energetic trot.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Jog' on, ' jog on, the footpath way.
  • * Milton
    • So hung his destiny, never to rot, / While he might still jog on and keep his trot.
  • * Robert Browning
    • The good old ways our sires jogged safely over.
  • To cause to move at an energetic trot.
    • to jog a horse
  • To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.

    • Related terms

    * jogging ----