jar vs slug

jar

noun
  • A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint. 

  • A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes. 

  • The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash. 

  • A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful. 

  • A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck. 

  • An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial. 

  • A sense of alarm or dismay. 

  • A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality. 

  • A pint glass 

verb
  • To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement. 

  • To harm or injure by such action. 

  • To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel. 

  • To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck. 

  • To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly. 

  • To shock or surprise. 

  • Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent. 

  • To preserve (food) in a jar. 

slug

noun
  • A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. 

  • A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use. 

  • A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. 

  • The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename. 

  • A hard blow, usually with the fist. 

  • A black screen. 

  • A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together. 

  • A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug. 

  • A ship that sails slowly. 

  • The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it. 

  • A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal. 

  • Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. 

  • An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab. 

  • A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes. 

  • A hitchhiking commuter. 

  • A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. 

  • A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material. 

verb
  • To hit very hard, usually with the fist. 

  • To drink quickly; to gulp; to down. 

  • To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. 

  • To make sluggish. 

  • To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel. 

  • To load with a slug or slugs. 

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