Tar

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  • noun. A sailor.
  • noun. A dark, oily, viscous material, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, produced by the destructive distillation of organic substances such as wood, coal, or peat.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A solid residue of tobacco smoke containing byproducts of combustion.
  • transitive verb. To coat with or as if with tar.
  • idiom. (tar and feather) To punish (a person) by covering with tar and feathers.
  • idiom. (tar and feather) To criticize severely and devastatingly; excoriate.
  • idiom. (tarred with the same brush) Considered or described as having the same faults or bad qualities.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A sailor: so called from his tarred clothes, hands, etc. Also Jack Tar.
  • To smear with tar; figuratively, to cover as with tar.
  • noun. A small silver coin formerly current on the Malabar coast, especially at Tellicherri and Calicut. Sixteen tars of Calicut equal one fanam; one tar of Tellicherri is equivalent to four reas, and one hundred tars equal one rupee.
  • To incite; provoke; hound.
  • noun. A thick dark-colored viscid product obtained by the destructive distillation of organic substances and bituminous minerals, as wood, coal, peat, shale, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To smear with tar, or as with tar
  • transitive verb. See under Feather, v. t.
  • noun. A sailor; a seaman.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. See in the Vocabulary.
  • noun. a kind of soft native bitumen.
  • noun. a strong quality of millboard made from junk and old tarred rope.
  • noun. The ammoniacal water of gas works.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A program for archiving files, common on Unix.
  • noun. A file produced by such a program.
  • verb. To create a tar archive.
  • noun. A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
  • noun. Coal tar.
  • noun. A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
  • noun. A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.
  • noun. black tar, a form of heroin
  • verb. To coat with tar.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a man who serves as a sailor
  • verb. coat with tar
  • noun. any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
  • Word Usage
    "Acne artificialis is a term applied to an acne or acne-like eruption produced by the ingestion of certain drugs, as the bromides and iodides, and by the external use of tar; this is also called _tar acne_."
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    Form
    tarred  tarring  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    coat  surface  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adar  Aer  Afar  Ajar  Ar  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    brimstone  charcoal  coal  glue  grease  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    tarred  tarring  
    verb-form
    tarred  tarring  tars