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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#m1)

2) A jar of something is the amount a jar holds: a jar of jam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#m2)

3) To jar is to shake or knock hard, or to give an unpleasant shock: The fall jarred his knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#x1)
- She has 4 jars of jam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#x2)
- The jar has 25 coins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#x3)
- How many jars does she need for 90 sweets? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#x4)
- Can you open this jar? The lid is stuck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#x5)
- We kept the caterpillar in a jar with holes in the lid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#x6)
- Guess how many marbles are in the jar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#x7)
- She put her pocket money in a jar every week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#x8)
- Grandma made five jars of strawberry jam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#x9)
- 'You never told me what you did with those jars?' [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/#x10)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/9/)
- [Some honeypot ant workers swell with sweet liquid and hang from the nest roof like living jars, storing food for hard times.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges/16/)
- [Honeypot ants turn some workers into living jars of sweet liquid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/3/)
- [Put a jar over the candle and the flame soon dies, because it cannot get fresh oxygen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/11-the-candle-and-burning/2/)
- [Take the lid off or leave a gap when heating a jar or container, because pressure can make it burst.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.