Tar

Noun

 * 1)  A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
 * 2) Coal tar.
 * 3)  A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
 * 4)  A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.

Derived terms

 * coal tar
 * mineral tar
 * tar board
 * Tar Heel


 * tar water
 * tarmacadam, tarmac
 * tarpaulin
 * wood tar

Verb

 * 1)  To coat with tar.

Derived terms

 * tar and feather


 * tar with the same brush

Noun

 * 1)  A program for archiving files, common on Unix.
 * 2)  A file produced by such a program.

Verb

 * 1)  To create a tar archive.

Thesaurus
AB, Amytal, Amytal pill, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Demerol, Dolophine, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, asphalt, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, bedaub, besmear, besmirch, black stuff, blacktop, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, bluejacket, buccaneer, butter, calmative, carpet, causeway, cement, charcoal, chloral hydrate, coal, coat, cobblestone, codeine, codeine cough syrup, concrete, crow, dab, daub, deep-sea man, defile, depressant, depressor, discolor, dolly, downer, ebon, ebony, enamel, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, flag, floor, gild, gloss, goofball, hard stuff, hearty, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, ink, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, jet, junk, knockout drops, lacquer, laudanum, lay on, limey, liquor, lobsterman, lotus, mariner, matelot, meperidine, metal, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, navigator, night, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pave, pebble, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, pirate, pitch, prime, privateer, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, raven, red, sailor, salt, scag, sea dog, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shipman, shit, slap on, slather, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sloe, smack, smear, smear on, smoke, smut, sodium thiopental, soil, somnifacient, soot, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, spread on, spread with, stain, sully, tarnish, tarpaulin, tranquilizer, turps, undercoat, viking, water dog, whaler, white stuff, windjammer, windsailor, yellow, yellow jacket

Etymology 1
terr:, from teoru:, teru:, from  (compare West Frisian tarre:, Dutch teer:), from  (compare Welsh derw: ‘oaks’, Lithuanian derva: ‘pinewood, resin’, Russian дерево: ‘tree’), from  ‘tree’. More at tree.

Etymology 2
Abbreviation of tape archive.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (qa.trān)
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: quitrà
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: gudro
 * Estonian: tõrv
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: タール
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latvian: darva
 * Lithuanian: derva
 * Polish: dziegieć
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: катран
 * Roman: katran
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Catalan: quitrà de carbó
 * Dutch: koolteer
 * Esperanto: gudro
 * Finnish: kivihiiliterva
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Polish: smoła
 * Russian: каменноугольная
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tjära


 * Catalan: quitrà
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: gudro
 * Estonian: tõrv
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish: smoła
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tjära


 * Bosnian:
 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic: sjóari, sjómaður
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: морнар
 * Roman: mornar


 * Swedish: beckbyxa

Verb

 * Catalan: enquitranar
 * Esperanto: gudri
 * Estonian: tõrvama
 * Finnish:


 * Greek: πισσώνω
 * Icelandic: tjarga
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tjära

Noun

 * Icelandic: tar-skrá

Anagrams

 * art, Art
 * rat
 * RTA

Adjective

 * 1) bald

Synonyms

 * kopasz

Verb

 * 1) to come

Verb

 * 1) to fly

Etymology
From طار:.

Verb

 * 1) to come

Preposition

 * 1) over, across

Etymology
Cognate with Welsh tra: and Latin trans:.

Descendants

 * Irish:
 * Manx:
 * Scottish Gaelic: