TAR

mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog

(noun) a man who serves as a sailor

pitch, tar

(noun) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

tar

(verb) coat with tar; “tar the roof”; “tar the roads”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

tar (countable and uncountable, plural tars)

(usually, uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.

Coal tar.

(uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.

(slang, dated) A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.

Synonym: Jack Tar

• Jonathan Swift, "To Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough"

(uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.

Verb

tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

(transitive) To coat with tar.

(transitive) To besmirch.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of tape archive.

Noun

tar (plural tars)

(computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.

(computing) A file produced by such a program.

Verb

tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

(computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.

Antonyms

• untar

Etymology 3

Noun

tar (plural tars)

A Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.

Etymology 4

Noun

tar (plural tars)

A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.

Anagrams

• 'art, 'rat, ART, ATR, Art, RAT, RTA, Rat, art, art., rat, tra

Proper noun

TAR

(sometimes with the) Initialism of Tibet Autonomous Region, an administrative region of China.

Anagrams

• 'art, 'rat, ART, ATR, Art, RAT, RTA, Rat, art, art., rat, tra

Proper noun

Tar

A village in Hungary.

Anagrams

• 'art, 'rat, ART, ATR, Art, RAT, RTA, Rat, art, art., rat, tra

Source: Wiktionary


Tar, n. Etym: [Abbrev. from tarpaulin.]

Definition: A sailor; a seaman. [Colloq.] Swift.

Tar, n. Etym: [OE. terre, tarre, AS. teru, teoru; akin to D. teer, G. teer, theer, Icel. tjara, Sw. tjära, Dan. tiære, and to E. tree. *63. See Tree.]

Definition: A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it. Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary.

– Mineral tar (Min.), a kind of soft native bitumen.

– Tar board, a strong quality of millboard made from junk and old tarred rope. Knight.

– Tar water. (a) A cold infusion of tar in water, used as a medicine. (b) The ammoniacal water of gas works.

– Wood tar, tar obtained from wood. It is usually obtained by the distillation of the wood of the pine, spruce, or fir, and is used in varnishes, cements, and to render ropes, oakum, etc., impervious to water.

Tar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Tarring.]

Definition: To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth. To tar and feather a person. See under Feather, v. t.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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