jar

«jar» in Mova's school dictionary: a glass or plastic container with a wide top and a lid… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (jar, jars); verb (jar, jars, jarred, jarring — to shake or give a shock)

meaning for a pupil

1) A jar is a glass or plastic container with a wide top and a lid, for keeping food like jam or honey. tree →

2) A jar of something is the amount a jar holds: a jar of jam. tree →

3) To jar is to shake or knock hard, or to give an unpleasant shock: The fall jarred his knee. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, a container: things per jar (group size), or coins and sweets counted in a jar; guessing how many sweets are in a jar is a classic estimating game. In science, a jar is used to keep a sample, grow cress or watch a caterpillar. In everyday life: jam jars, a swear jar, a money jar for saving. In safety: glass jars break, so carry them carefully. Phrases: «a jar of», «jam jar», «cookie jar», «caught with your hand in the cookie jar».

examples

• Each jar holds 30 cookies. tree →
• She has 4 jars of jam. tree →
• The jar has 25 coins. tree →
• How many jars does she need for 90 sweets? tree →
• Can you open this jar? The lid is stuck. tree →
• We kept the caterpillar in a jar with holes in the lid. tree →
• Guess how many marbles are in the jar. tree →
• She put her pocket money in a jar every week. tree →
• Grandma made five jars of strawberry jam. tree →
• 'You never told me what you did with those jars?' tree →

note

Countable: a jar, jars. Verb past: jarred. «Each jar holds» is the group size: jars × size, or total ÷ size for the number of jars. Trap: when dividing, a part-full jar still counts as one more jar (90 ÷ 30 = 3, but 95 sweets need 4 jars).

In the corpora

• Octopuses can solve puzzles, open jars, learn by watching and remember people; wild ones carry coconut shell halves to hide in.
• Some honeypot ant workers swell with sweet liquid and hang from the nest roof like living jars, storing food for hard times.
• Honeypot ants turn some workers into living jars of sweet liquid.
• Put a jar over the candle and the flame soon dies, because it cannot get fresh oxygen.
• Take the lid off or leave a gap when heating a jar or container, because pressure can make it burst.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «jar» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.