Pottery vs Jar - What's the difference?
pottery | jar |
Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed
(countable) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made
The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay
Having to do with pottery.
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, chapter=2 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 pottery
is fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.As an adjective pottery
is having to do with pottery.As an initialism jar is
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English
("pottery" on Wikipedia)Noun
(en-noun)- The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.
- I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.
- was skilled at pottery .
Synonyms
* ceramic * ceramics * earthenwareHyponyms
* porcelain, chinaSee also
* stoneware * terracottaAdjective
(-)citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
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.