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Urn vs Jar - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between urn and jar

is that urn is a vase with a footed base while jar is a small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of glass or clay, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.

As a verb jar is

to knock or strike sharply.

As an initialism JAR is

initialism of Java ARchive|lang=en.

urn

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a vase with a footed base
  • * Bishop Wilkins
    • A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn , or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.
  • * Dryden
    • His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, / And once more join us in the pious urn .
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1967 , first = Barbara , last = Sleigh , authorlink = Barbara Sleigh , title = (Jessamy) , edition = 1993 , location = Sevenoaks, Kent , publisher=Bloomsbury , isbn = 0 340 19547 9 , page = 47 , url = , passage = ‘You would take her side Marcus! You don’t know what it’s like at school. Mary Fibbs and all her friends start making coughing noises whenever I come near them, and then they all giggle and Mary says Grandfather mixes his cough medicine in the urns on top of the gate posts after dark with his umbrella, and now Jessamy! I only wish Harry was here. You’re all against me. I hate you all. I hate you!’ }}
  • a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee
  • a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
  • (figurative) Any place of burial; the grave.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn , / Tombless, with no remembrance over them.
  • (historical, Roman antiquity) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
  • (botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

    • Anagrams

    * run

    External links

    * (wikipedia "urn")

    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) ----