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Jar vs Vessel - What's the difference?

jar | vessel |

As nouns the difference between jar and vessel

is that jar is a small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of glass or clay, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes while vessel is any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.

As verbs the difference between jar and vessel

is that jar is to knock or strike sharply while vessel is to put into a vessel.

As an initialism JAR

is initialism of Java ARchive|lang=en.

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) ----

    vessel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
  • * 1719 ,
  • But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}
  • A container of liquid, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
  • A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
  • * Bible, Acts ix. 15
  • He is a chosen vessel unto me.
  • * Milton
  • [The serpent] fit vessel , fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.
  • * Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics:
  • I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way.
  • (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
  • Blood or lymph vessels''' in humans, xylem or phloem '''vessels in plants .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * broken vessel * empty vessels make the most sound * lightvessel * microvessel * pressure vessel * reaction vessel * unvessel * weaker vessel

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To put into a vessel.
  • (Francis Bacon)

    References

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    Anagrams

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