glass jar

collocation in English

meaningsofglassandjar

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glass
noun
uk
/ɡlɑːs/us
/ɡlæs/
a hard, transparent material, used to make windows, bottles, and ...
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jar
noun[C]
uk
/dʒɑːr/us
/dʒɑːr/
a glass or clay container with a wide opening at the top and sometimes a fitted lid, usually used for ...
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(Definition ofglassandjarfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofglass jar

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Scrooge keeps the dime in aglassjarin his money vault, and constantly protects it from the villains on the show.
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In return children were offered the chance to help themselves to pennies in a giantglassjar.
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Having shrunk them, he then places them into aglassjarin his possession.
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Razieh sets off with an emptyglassjarto the fish shop a few blocks away.
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The 20 g soil 8 ozglassjarvolume is compared to both the 16 and 32 ozglassjarvolumes.
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In theglassjarexample, 0.6 g of water passes through the container every minute the jar is open.
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A drop of honey was placed on the inner surface of theglassjarclose to the lid.
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The rat host (along with any fleas it carried) was retained in a largeglassjarwithin the experimental cage.
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Emerging wasps are attracted to the light entering through theglassjarand self-collect within the jar.
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Lizards were caught with bare hands and placed separately in aglassjar.
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The soil or sediment sample was collected into a 125 mlglassjar.
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Eggs were added to 250 g poultry-mash diet in a 940-mlglassjar.
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In the otherglassjarthe same amount of plant leaves infested with spider mites for at least three days and at most 14 days was placed.
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The other falls onto theglassjarof sulphuric acid and breaks it.
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He, however, kept it, and he showed me something in aglassjarthat is a real ecological disaster in the making.
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Probably the only cliché he failed to use was the reference to sandwiches tasting like blotting paper, having spent most of their lives under aglassjar.
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An example of estimation would be determining how many candies of a given size are in aglassjar.
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The first two words were dropped soon after the packaging changed to aglassjarin the 1940s.
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