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Jolt vs Jar - What's the difference?

jolt | jar | Synonyms |

Jar is a synonym of jolt.



In transitive terms the difference between jolt and jar

is that jolt is to shock emotionally while jar is to shock or surprise.

As an initialism JAR is

initialism of Java ARchive|lang=en.

jolt

English

(wikipedia jolt)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
    • The bus jolted its passengers.
  • To knock sharply; to deal a blow to.
  • To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert; as, to jolt someone out of complacency
  • To shock emotionally.
    • Her untimely death jolted us all.
  • To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
    • The bus jolted along the stony path.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of jolting.
  • A surprise or shock.
  • (slang) A long prison sentence.
  • (slang) A narcotic injection.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (prison sentence) bit

    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) ----