tar
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4.1
- noun
- /tɑr/
:
alquitrán
- The workers applied tar to the roof to ensure it was waterproof.
- coal tar
- tar sands
- tar ponds
We don't really see dogs with like tar on their feet every day.
- We don't really see dogs with like tar on their feet every day.
- So we have the tar to make carbon fiber, hydrogen comes out.
- It's like a gross black cyst of just pure disgusting tar that will come out it when you just sort of like touch it and squeeze it out.
- Cams toots smell like tar and like blueberries.
- They have soaps like Birchwood Breeze Bay rum, fresh falls, pine tar, cool fresh aloe.
- So in the anger people are in like a giant river that's kind of like a bubbling tar almost always wading through it.
- Thank you long lasting fresh breath, anti cavity, anti plaque, anti tar.
Examples
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The liquids could be used as fuels and the stuff that was really nasty, the tar, could be put onto roads.
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This is supposed to be like stone like that, but now it's like black tar all filled with gum.
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- Yeah, it's beach tar.
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Help me with this tar.
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I looked at his hands and saw tar dripping from his fingers.
Fiction book (1992) -
And there was a small tar stain on the mat, and some of the fibres show that as well.
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Many of those sites are now brownfields contaminated with coal tar and other toxins.
Academic text (2012) -
Nicotine does not cause cancer; it is the tar and carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke that is harmful.
Academic text (2011) -
The road was freshly paved with tar, leaving a dark and glossy surface.
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After the rain, we noticed that patches of tar had formed on the pavement.
Synonyms
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3.9
A dark sticky material used to make roads and keep roofs dry
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6.8
A dark sticky substance used to make things waterproof
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5.2
A thick dark sticky liquid made by heating coal and used in medicines and dyes
A dark sticky liquid made by heating wood that protects things from water
A dark sticky substance from pine wood used to waterproof wood and soothe skin
A dark tar-like material used to make roads and keep surfaces dry
A thick black sticky material made from oil and rocks used to make roofs waterproof and stop rust
Idioms
- Informal
1
8.7
Unfairly judge a whole group because of one person's actions
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.2
A thick dark sticky liquid made by heating coal and used in medicines and dyes
- Specialized
A dark oily liquid made from coal tar that protects wood from rot and insects
- Specialized
A thick black sticky material made from oil and rocks used to make roofs waterproof and stop rust
- Jargon
A cloth soaked in pine tar that batters rub on a bat handle to help them hold it better
- New Zealand
A New Zealand tree or shrub with thin branches that grows in cold, wet places
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tar comes from an old Germanic word for a thick, black 'resin' once used to protect ships and rope. That's why tar today means the sticky black substance used for waterproofing and paving, and you can see it in the word tarmac.