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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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