English Explanatory Dictionary

tar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A black, oil, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
  2. Coal tar.
  3. (often typeset "tar" in USA) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
  4. A sailor (because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes).
  5. Ellipsis of black tar heroin.
verb
  1. To coat with tar.
  2. To besmirch.
noun
  1. A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
  2. A file produced by such a program.
verb
  1. To create a tar archive.
noun
  1. A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
noun
  1. A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
noun
  1. Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).
name
  1. Initialism of Tibet Autonomous Region, an administrative region of China.
name
  1. A village in Hungary.

Pronunciation

/tɑː/ /tɑɹ/ [tʰɑɻ] [tʰɑɹ] en-us-tar.ogg en-au-tar.ogg /tæːɹ/

Word forms

tar tars tarring tarred tār

Etymology

PIE word *dóru From Middle English ter, terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwą, from Proto-Indo-European *derwo-, from *dóru (“tree”). See also Saterland Frisian Taar, West Frisian tarre, tar, Dutch teer, German Teer; also Welsh derw (“oaks”), Lithuanian dervà (“pinewood, resin”), Russian де́рево (dérevo, “tree”), Bulgarian дърво́ (dǎrvó, “tree”). More at tree.

Synonyms

Jack Tar jacktar jack tarpaulin

Antonyms

untar

Related words

TAR syndrome

Derived words

Archangel tar Athabasca tar sands beat the tar out of birch tar black as tar black tar coal tar gas tar green tar Jack Tar jacktar juniper tar mineral tar pine tar pitch-tar slow as tar spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar Stockholm tar tar baby tar-black tar board tar boil tarbrush tarbucket tarcrete tar derby Tar Heel tarlike tarmac tarmacadam tarpaper tar paper tarpaulin tar pit tarpit tarpot tarrish tarry tar sand tarseal tar spot tar water tarweed the tackies hit the tar touch of the tar brush wood tar retar tar and feather tar out tar with the same brush tar with the same stick untarred tarball tarbomb tarfile untar

Translations

Albanian: zift Southern Altai: тӧгӧт Arabic: قَطْرَان Armenian: կուպր Asturian: alquitrán Azerbaijani: qatran Basque: mundrun Belarusian: дзёгаць Belarusian: гудро́н Belarusian: смала́ Bulgarian: катра́н Burmese: ကတ္တရာစေး Catalan: quitrà Chinese Mandarin: 焦油 Czech: dehet Danish: tjære Dutch: teer Esperanto: gudro Estonian: tõrv Faroese: tjøra Finnish: terva French: goudron Galician: alcatrén Galician: alcatrón Galician: chapapote Galician: galipote Galician: piche Galician: brea Galician: breu Georgian: კუპრი German: Teer Greek: πίσσα Greek: κατράμι Hebrew: זֶפֶת Hindi: तारकोल Hungarian: kátrány Icelandic: tjara Ingrian: terva Irish: tarra Italian: catrame Italian: bitume Japanese: 乾留液 Japanese: タール Kazakh: қарамай Kazakh: гудрон Khmer: ចុង Korean: 수지 Korean: 타르 Central Kurdish: قەتران Northern Kurdish: qîr Northern Kurdish: qetran Kyrgyz: карамай Kyrgyz: дёготь Kyrgyz: гудрон Lao: ນ້ຳມັນດິນ Latgalian: daguts
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