Crossword clues for jarring
jarring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jar \Jar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Jarring.] [Cf. OE. charken to creak, AS. cearcian to gnash, F. jars a gander, L. garrire to chatter, prate, OHG. kerran to chatter, croak, G. quarren to grumble, and E. jargon, ajar.]
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To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly; as, the notes jarred on my ears.
When such strings jar, what hope of harmony ?
--Shak.A string may jar in the best master's hand.
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To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute.
When those renowned noble peers Greece Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar.
--Spenser.For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist.
--Milton.
Jarring \Jar"ring\ n.
A shaking; a tremulous motion; as, the jarring of a steamship, caused by its engines.
Discord; a clashing of interests. ``Endless jarrings and immortal hate.''
--Dryden.
Jarring \Jar"ring\, a. [See Jar.]
Shaking; disturbing; discordant. ``A jarring sound.''
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful. n. An act of jarring (in any sense). v
(present participle of jar English)
WordNet
See jar
v. be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" [syn: clash, collide]
move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn: jolt]
shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game" [syn: shake up, bump around]
affect in a disagreeable way; "This play jarred the audience"
place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"
Usage examples of "jarring".
He lowered himself carefully into the chair behind the desk to avoid jarring his ribs and gave Officers Teddy Begayaye, Deejay Hondo, Edison Bai, and Bernadette Manuelito a few moments to inspect the damage.
The harsher consonants in euphonious texts become less jarring when in the proximity of softer sounds.
She walked back toward her chambers but had not yet reached the tall doors when a disquieting occurrence took place, a jarring note in the paean of her triumphant return to Isse Tower.
The horse spun on its hind legs and crashed back down, jarring Krai forward across the pommel.
The gun itself recoiled with the force of a runaway locomotive, jarring backward a full ten paces to mangle the legs of the two leading horses of the limber team.
To wed Nils Lykke to one of my house were doubtless a great step toward reconciling many jarring forces in our land.
In their endless stocktaking of orderly births and deaths her sudden appearance was as jarring an event as a disappearance would have been, the mirror-image of a murder or an abduction.
Almost immediately, with an excruciatingly jarring impact, Pandora, Damp and Tarantella arrived at the portal.
When her unsandalled foot caught on an edge of the jagged paving she fled one-legged, each hop jarring a whimper out of her.
It was jarring to have this big male, whiffy from the road and petrol, invading their kitchen.
Be sure that not without reason did the ancients feign Eros to be the eldest of the gods, by whom the jarring elements of chaos were attuned into harmony and order.
The recalled demand splashed Bree like a bucket of icy water, jarring her from her stupor.
The damaged vehicle burned sullenly, occasional explosions jarring the ground and sending tongues of flame through its hatches and around the gun that lay slanting toward the ground, its mantlet slammed free of the surrounding armor.
The Mustee, at an hour past noon, was at its most crowded, with heavily laden camels pressing stolidly through the throng, and the shouts of the veiled women selling oranges rising in jarring cacophony over the song of the rat catcheron whose broad-brimmed hat six trained examples of his prey, each wearing a little hat of its own, formed a pyramidand the yells of the fish and milk vendors and the chanted prayers of the beggars.
He landed with a jarring thud on the cobbled street, and scrambled into a maze of alleys as the strich ran off in another direction.