What's the difference between jar and knock?

Jar


Definition:

  • (n.) A turn. [Only in phrase.]
  • (n.) A deep, broad-mouthed vessel of earthenware or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes; as, a jar of honey; a rose jar.
  • (n.) The measure of what is contained in a jar; as, a jar of oil; a jar of preserves.
  • (v. i.) To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly; as, the notes jarred on my ears.
  • (v. i.) To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute.
  • (v. t.) To cause a short, tremulous motion of, to cause to tremble, as by a sudden shock or blow; to shake; to shock; as, to jar the earth; to jar one's faith.
  • (v. t.) To tick; to beat; to mark or tell off.
  • (n.) A rattling, tremulous vibration or shock; a shake; a harsh sound; a discord; as, the jar of a train; the jar of harsh sounds.
  • (n.) Clash of interest or opinions; collision; discord; debate; slight disagreement.
  • (n.) A regular vibration, as of a pendulum.
  • (n.) In deep well boring, a device resembling two long chain links, for connecting a percussion drill to the rod or rope which works it, so that the drill is driven down by impact and is jerked loose when jammed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have used the JAR choriocarcinoma cell line to study the biosynthesis and secretion of this hormone.
  • (2) The 'prequel' trilogy, featuring Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side and the much-maligned Jar Jar Binks, was released between 1999 and 2005 but Lucas has developed the franchise far beyond those six original films.
  • (3) Seasonal and habitat influences on the egg-laying activity of four species of Culex were compared in south Florida using jar- and vat-type oviposition traps.
  • (4) We're not just disembodied wombs in jars, like in Tales of the Unexpected.
  • (5) Inoculating sputum on modified Thayer-Martin medium and extending the initial incubation period of 3 days at 35 degrees C under 10% carbon dioxide to a further 3 weeks at room temperature in a candle jar, led to the diagnoses, which otherwise would have been missed, of pulmonary nocardiosis in 3 patients and pulmonary infections due to Neisseria meningitidis, Pseudomonas cepacia, and Serratia marcescens in a further 22 patients.
  • (6) These microcapsules can be dried and retain activity when sealed in a jar at 4 degrees C.
  • (7) The magnitude of this invasion was compared to that of the highly metastatic human JAR-choriocarcinoma cell line and murine B16F10 melanoma line.
  • (8) Innovations such as jam jar accounts, run by credit unions, have been much lauded, but where they have been offered take up has been low with many complaining about the complexity and costs involved.
  • (9) The increase in the CG beta mRNA with cell size is a consequence of the transcriptional mechanism, since agents which induce differentiation in JAr cells, i.e., methotrexate, increase the level of CG alpha and CG beta transcripts, cause a shift in cell size, and result in the formation of multinuclear cells.
  • (10) The earliest, biosynthetically labeled form of the beta subunit detected in JAR cells contains high mannose N-linked oligosaccharides and has one-half of its incorporated cysteines present as free thiols.
  • (11) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
  • (12) So here we are in Chester's Mill, a snoozy Maine town about to be rent asunder by the arrival of a mysterious transparent dome, shooming down like a giant jam jar on its coffee shops and car lots and effectively cutting its residents off from the rest of civilisation.
  • (13) I thought there might be real interest in aiming for an "innocent" reading of The Bell Jar.
  • (14) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
  • (15) Medium conatining 0.1% NaHCO3, if incubated in a closed environment (sealed jar), apperas to be equivalent to medium without bicarbonate incubated in ambient CO2 in supporting the growth of some but not all strains of N. gonorrhoeae.
  • (16) It is a spectacle made all the more compelling by his total immersion in every game he plays for Wales , the lack of distance or arm-waving frustration if his own talents occasionally jar with the action around him.
  • (17) Statistically significant decreases in recovery rate were noted when each system was compared with the traditional plate-candle jar technique.
  • (18) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.
  • (19) Apart from anything else, this jars with the gentle spirit of unity and togetherness – don’t look back in anger , and all that – that has defined so much of the early summer, and which Corbyn has so obviously embodied.
  • (20) Leaving aside the fact that in the real world, after a lifetime of buckets, there’s a fair chance Andy would be missing a foot, what’s even more jarring is that KFC would actually try to use the fraught process of foster care to make even more money.

Knock


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
  • (v. i.) To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
  • (v. t.) To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.
  • (v. t.) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
  • (n.) A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
  • (n.) A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having been knocked out of the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup before Christmas, they lost an FA Cup fourth-round replay at West Brom on 1 February.
  • (2) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
  • (3) More seriously, but no less predictably, the inflaming of sectarianism will have knock-on effects in Syria and Iraq.
  • (4) I knocked for quite some time but there was nobody there.” A neighbour said the family had not been home for “a while”.
  • (5) One day, out of the blue, there's a knock on the door.
  • (6) At 7.40am Lord Feldman, the Conservative party chairman, knocked on the front door of No 10.
  • (7) Indeed, with the pageantry already knocked off the top of the news by reports from Old Trafford, the very idea of a cohesive coalition programme about anything other than cuts looks that bit harder to sustain.
  • (8) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
  • (9) This part will be knocked down next year; they have already started opposite."
  • (10) I see myself in exactly the same situation as I saw myself yesterday, though obviously with the bitter disappointment of the failure of being knocked out.
  • (11) "There's nothing better than when the Grammys can rock out, and to have these artists all together on one stage, doing a number that, when they presented it to us, knocked us out, is going to turn out to be one of those Grammy moments that people talk about for a long time.
  • (12) Hester also pledged that customers from other banks will be repaid for 'knock-on' costs after they were left out of pocket by an IT failure that sent 20m transactions awry.
  • (13) Whether it's voting on the day, knocking on doors, making phone calls or speaking to friends and family, the silent majority should feel confident in speaking up.
  • (14) Cooled by a floor fan, nurses, doctors and support staff in blue scrubs move through the small anteroom next to the isolation ward to juggle the needs of the desperately ill patients inside as a stream of people knock on the canvas door asking for updates on their loved ones.
  • (15) We’ve sent out all the boards and there’s still loads of people flooding in, we don’t know what to do.’ It happened in Leeds North West, too – they started the day, they had so many activists that they went: ‘Right, let’s scrap our whole strategy, we’re going to just print off the electoral register instead’ – and rather than focusing on likely Labour voters, which is what you would normally do, they knocked on all the doors on the electoral register – that’s unheard of.” The seat saw a 14% swing to Labour, overturning a Lib Dem majority of almost 3,000 and replacing it with a 4,000 Labour lead.
  • (16) Offers worth £20m and £26m have been flatly rejected by Everton since mid-July, with a third of around £30m also knocked back last week.
  • (17) A protester is knocked back by a police water cannon as riot police advance towards Gezi Park.
  • (18) Chelsea , however, will not be too concerned if this match is added to the long list of games that is used to knock José Mourinho's ploys of conservatism and, ultimately, it is proven to be a valuable result.
  • (19) You are hunting for signs of the assembly of injuries - a broken nose, knocked-out teeth, fractured eye socket - incurred by falling face-first down a fire escape in Michigan while high on crystal meth, crack cocaine and cheap wine.
  • (20) On election day, we’ll have 6,000 campaign volunteers knocking on doors.

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