Word Meanings - JAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A turn. On the jar, on the turn, ajar, as a door.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JAR)

• Bicker
• Wrangle
• quarrel
• jar
• dispute
• contend
• Crash
• Jar
• clang
• clash
• resonance
• Orate
• Bub
• scrape
• scratch
• Jangle Bicker
• wrangle
• squabble
• nag
• Shake
• Agitate
• weaken
• oscillate
• totter
• convulse
• loosen
• tremble
• quiver
• shiver

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of JAR)

• Lubricate
• polish
• levigate
• dig
• indent
• wound

Related words: (words related to JAR)

• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• WRANGLE
  An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
• QUARRELING
  Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• SHAKE
  A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. (more info) 1. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other;
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• SCRATCHING
  With the action of scratching.
• INDENTMENT
  Indenture.
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• SCRATCH
  A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch. Grose. 3. pl. (more info) 1. A break in the surface of a thing
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• JANGLERESS
  A female prater or babbler.
• CRASH
  1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of manu things falling and breaking at once. The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison. 2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• INDENTEDLY
  With indentations.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• INDENTED
  Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. 4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. (more info) 1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like
• BESCRATCH
  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• CLASH
  1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent
• PRORECTORATE
  The office of prorector.
• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• VAPORATE
  To emit vapor; to evaporate.
• HYDROCHLORATE
  See HYDROCHLORIDE
• MELIORATER
  See MELIORATOR
• BICORPORATE
  Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
• PERORATE
  To make a peroration; to harangue.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.