jar : Idioms & Phrases

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bell jar

  • noun a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases
    bell glass.
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Bell" jar`
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  1. (Phys.) A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.
Webster 1913

Bell jar, Leyden jar

  • . See in the Vocabulary.
Webster 1913

canopic jar

  • noun a jar used in ancient Egypt to contain entrails of an embalmed body
    canopic vase.
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  • noun a jar in which cookies are kept (and sometimes money is hidden)
    cookie jar.
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  • noun a hidden reserve that can be used to adjust quarterly earning reports
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cooky jar

  • noun a jar in which cookies are kept (and sometimes money is hidden)
    cookie jar.
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earthenware jar

  • noun an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
    crock.
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Fruit jar

  • a jar for holding preserved fruit, usually made of glass or earthenware.
Webster 1913

jar against

  • verb collide violently with an obstacle
    run into; butt against; bump into; knock against.
    • I ran into the telephone pole
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jar-owl

Jar"-owl` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The goatsucker.
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leiden jar

  • noun an electrostatic capacitor of historical interest
    Leiden jar.
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leyden jar

  • noun an electrostatic capacitor of historical interest
    Leiden jar.
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Ley"den jar", Ley"den phi"al (Also<
  • Leyden jar
  • Leyden phial
)
Definitions
  1. (Elec.) A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.
Webster 1913

mason jar

  • noun a glass jar with an air-tight screw top; used in home canning
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On the jar

  • on the turn, ajar, as a door.
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slop jar

  • noun a large pail used to receive waste water from a washbasin or chamber pot
    slop pail.
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Stone jar

  • a jar made of stoneware.
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Unit jar

  • (Elec.), a small, insulated Leyden jar, placed between the electrical machine and a larger jar or battery, so as to announce, by its repeated discharges, the amount of electricity passed into the larger jar.
Webster 1913