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• jar — I UK [dʒɑː(r)] / US [dʒɑr] noun Word forms jar : singular jar plural jars * 1) [countable] a glass container with a lid and a wide top, especially one in which food is sold or kept a jar of marmalade a) the food contained in a jar, or the amount… …   English dictionary

• jar — jar1 [ dʒar ] noun * 1. ) count a glass container with a lid and a wide opening at the top, especially one in which food is sold or kept: Please buy a big jar of pickles when you go to the store. the peanut butter jar a ) the food contained in a… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• POTTERY — appears for the first time in the Neolithic period, around the middle of the sixth millennium B.C.E. For two reasons, it serves as a major tool for the archaeological study of the material culture of ancient man: first because of its extensive… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• jar — Ⅰ. jar [1] ► NOUN 1) a wide mouthed cylindrical container made of glass or pottery. 2) Brit. informal a glass of beer. ORIGIN French jarre, from Arabic. Ⅱ. jar [2] ► …   English terms dictionary

• pottery — /pot euh ree/, n., pl. potteries. 1. ceramic ware, esp. earthenware and stoneware. 2. the art or business of a potter; ceramics. 3. a place where earthen pots or vessels are made. [1475 85; POTTER1 + Y3] * * * I One of the oldest and most… …   Universalium

• jar — 01. I d better do some baking; the cookie [jar] is almost empty. 02. Her father made a lot of money after inventing a device which helps you open [jar] lids that are on too tight. 03. The children got up in the middle of the night and emptied the …   Grammatical examples in English

• jar — jar1 noun 1》 a wide mouthed cylindrical container made of glass or pottery. 2》 Brit. informal a glass of beer. Origin C16: from Fr. jarre, from Arab. jarra. jar2 verb (jars, jarring, jarred) 1》 send a painful or uncomfortable shock through (a… …   English new terms dictionary

• Iranian pottery — Pottery vessel, fourth millennium B.C. The Sialk collection of Tehran s National Museum of Iran …   Wikipedia

• Mycenaean pottery — is the pottery, produced by Mycenaean potters and divided by archaeologists into a series of stylistic phases, which can be grouped into four major stages, which roughly correspond with cultural/historical stages. Contents 1 Chronology 1.1… …   Wikipedia

• Cookie jar — This article is about a jar that holds cookies. For other uses, see Cookie jar (disambiguation). Cookie jars are utilitarian or decorative ceramic or glass jars often found in American and Canadian kitchens. In the United Kingdom, they are known… …   Wikipedia

• Mississippian culture pottery — is the ceramic tradition of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE) found as artifacts in archaeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast. It is often characterized by the adoption and use of riverine (or more rarely marine) shell… …   Wikipedia