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nounPlural tars tɑːtɑr mass noun1A dark, thick flammable liquid distilled from wood or coal, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons, resins, alcohols, and other compounds. It is used in road-making and for coating and preserving timber. Example sentencesExamples - She said if the road went through the area, it would transform Bennettsbridge into a major depot for tar and bricks.
- The space between each pair of deck planks in a wooden ship was filled with a packing material called ‘oakum’ and then sealed with a mixture of pitch and tar.
- Using oils, acrylics, resin and tar on both wood and canvas support, the work reflects industrial, urban, suburban and natural views.
- Spain needed pine for tar, turpentine, and wood-essential naval stores for its shipbuilding industry in Cuba.
- They refined black tar to make plastic for the television casings, and they blew fine glass for the screens.
- In addition to poisons, smoke and fumes, steelworkers are exposed on an almost continuous basis to such toxic substances as tar, benzene and hydrochloric acid, to name only a few.
- For roofs this is generally done by applying a coating such as tar, acrylic, silicone or rubberized paint.
- It wasn't too much later that I found myself working as a roofer in Aspen, Colorado, carrying buckets of hot tar up a ladder.
- The tar and stone mixture layer was found to be less than the prescribed 7 mm.
- But environment watchdogs said that residents have not been put at risk by a complex operation to remove chemicals including tar, cyanide, ammonia and carcinogenic coal naptha.
- Commercial bit cleaner can be used to remove pitch and tar; however, a scrap piece of wood will usually do the trick.
- However, it is understood the substance is a waste product created during the distillation of tar, coal, oil or gas and contained sulphuric acid.
- I continued walking across the hot black tar of the parking lot until I reached a dark blue Ferrari.
- When he learnt of a valuable Baltic convoy carrying timber and tar for shipbuilding due into port, he waited to ambush it off Scarborough.
- To remove tar, freeze it to brittleness with ice cubes and then scrape it off with a plastic spatula.
- Tar pits form when crude oil seeps to the surface through fissures in the Earth's crust; the light fraction of the oil evaporates, leaving behind the heavy tar, or asphalt, in sticky pools.
- Depending on the type and location of the flashings, roofing tar or silicone or butyl rubber sealants can be used to seal small cracks and gaps.
- On our way out of al-Juweibir, we stop and talk to a man putting a thick layer of tar on his grandfather's boat.
- Kerosene and the rest of the organic mixture's lighter components evaporated, leaving behind the heavier molecules that make up tar and asphalt.
- Still impure, the gas was then passed through condensers and scrubbers to remove tar, and then through iron oxide purifiers to remove other impurities.
- 1.1 A substance resembling tar, formed by burning tobacco or other material.
in combination high-tar cigarettes Example sentencesExamples - The fact that mild cigarettes contain less nicotine and tar than normal ones can create a false impression and lead people to smoke more than they otherwise would do.
- In addition to nicotine, cigarette smoke is primarily composed of gases (mainly carbon monoxide) and tar.
- The tobacco used in these contraptions is not loaded with tar and nicotine as are cigarettes and it doesn't produce the noxious smog which so irritates non-smokers.
- Tobacco is a sweet smelling product of the aromatic leaves of the Nicotina plant, but contains carcinogenic and highly addictive substances like nicotine, tar and benzene.
- Cannabis deposited four times as much tar on lungs as tobacco and could, if used regularly, cause cancer.
- It also restricted the maximum amount of nicotine and tar to 1.5 milligrams and 20 milligrams respectively per cigarette.
- He leaned in close, so close I could smell cigarette tar on his breath.
- NRT products provide a way of coping with nicotine withdrawal without taking in the harmful substances of tar and carbon monoxide.
- In line with the motive to instruct, there are diseased organs, a liver shrivelled from alcohol abuse, lungs disfigured by cigarette tar, the misshapen brain of an Alzheimer's sufferer.
- I was curious, are there any alternatives to cigarettes that don't have nicotine, tar, and all that other nasty stuff?
- Earlier nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar were considered most harmful.
- Smoking the drug carries a high risk of mouth, throat and lung cancer, the same as smoking cigarettes really but without the added nicotine and tar.
- Cannabis acts as a relaxant without damaging the liver from alcohol abuse and has less tar than a cigarette.
- Hardwoods are better because they burn hotter and form less creosote, an oily, black tar that sticks to chimneys and stove pipes.
- The ratio of tar to nicotine produced in the tobacco smoke of low tar cigarettes is in fact closely similar to that of conventional cigarettes.
- The tar in tobacco contains hundreds of carcinogens that promote the transformation of normal cells into cancerous cells.
- The stone walls and stick ceiling drip with black tar from decades of burning yak dung.
- Since 1980, members of the coalition have tried to persuade tobacco companies to limit the yields of tar and nicotine in cigarettes sold in developing countries and to add health warnings on their packaging.
- There are, according to him, cigarettes available in India with five to six milligrams of tar and those with 18 milligrams of tar, but the average worked out to 12 milligrams.
- Although triggers such as tobacco tar and radioactive radon gas are known to be linked to lung cancer, little is understood of the genetic damage that causes the disease.
verbtarring, tarred, tars tɑːtɑr [with object]usually as adjective tarredCover (something) with tar. Example sentencesExamples - The corporation is very active at the moment in tarring roads in many housing estates.
- The piles were tarred ironbark and the beams were kauri with iron brackets to brace them.
- Today he is a successful actor who, after window cleaning, tried his hand at being a holiday rep in Majorca, a postman, selling papers, a labourer and tarring roads - all in Northern Ireland.
- A back road in the area had never been tarred and he wondered if there were any other roads like that in county Mayo.
- These roads were tarred just six months ago and with the recent rains, deep potholes have emerged.
- This road will eventually be tarred up to Oranjemund, the southernmost town on the coastline.
- He said although the distance being tarred may not be very long, its significance to the local economy is immense.
- We couldn't help noticing either how small towns in rural KZN are connected by good tarred roads.
- The few tarred roads are the connection to the coastal countries, along with a railway line to Abidjan.
- The shortest days has been 16 hours and it seemed shorter than any seven hour days I used to put in at a bank or tarring roads.
- The aggregate number of kilometres of road that have been tarred, bridges built or repaired can also be quantified.
- This road, which was just a sand road up to now, was tarred last week.
- Proper tarred roads should be built in rural areas and bus facilities made available in every nook and corner of the State.
- He pointed to the plan of having all roads in Soweto tarred by the end of 2005.
- This big barge was tarred black all around the hull for protection from leakages.
- According to the residents some of the roads here have not been tarred for over five years now.
- When the city council decided to invite small and medium enterprises as contractors tarring roads in the city, almost half of the contractors were women.
- The inside of the bomb is tarred to keep the explosive away from the metal on the inside of the bomb.
- By then the road was tarred, but just a few years previously it was nothing more than a graveled roadway.
- He said Sophiatown had a reasonably decent infrastructure, and all the roads were tarred.
Synonyms cover, surface, floor, top, finish, concrete, concrete over, asphalt, flag, tile, tarmac, metal
Phrases beat (or whale) the tar out of informal Beat or thrash severely. Example sentencesExamples - There's a technique I'm going to show you that will make it sound and look like you two are whaling the tar out of each other, but you'll be unharmed… if you do it correctly.
- If anything goes wrong I can beat the tar out of him.
- They lunged at us with anything that they could grab hold of, and attempting to beat the tar out of us.
- And as fun as it is to watch his emotion on the lanes, if I were on the approach listening to him beat the tar out of me, it would be all I could do to keep my composure and not knock those shades fight off his face.
- He looks exactly like her ex, he used to beat the tar out of her.
- He knew how to treat women right, and he was ready to beat the tar out of anyone who didn't.
- The illusion had worked perfectly, though it'd been hard to keep himself from laughing when he beat the tar out of him.
- In January of 2002, he fought Vernon Forrest, who beat the tar out of him in their first fight and won convincingly in the rematch six months later.
- And I'll remember that he can beat the tar out of me.
- Throwing a flurry of punches and kicks, he continually beat the tar out of his opponent without breaking a sweat.
Smear with tar and then cover with feathers as a punishment. a group of sailors had just stripped, tarred, and feathered a man Example sentencesExamples - Before everybody starts to tar and feather me, or put me in the traitor category with him, I'm as thrilled as anyone that we won.
- Before you answer, you would have no opportunity to grill him, tar and feather him or subject him to any form of torture.
- Whilst my views may represent a certain amount of leftist thought, they are not saying ‘Let's murder the government, lynch the Monarchy and tar and feather local police forces’.
- We don't duck adulterous women any more; nor do we tar and feather them.
- They wanted to know if they could tar and feather her and put her in the swimming pool.
- I am not talking about some piffling scheme to tar and feather wrong 'uns, or force them to walk up and down Petergate wearing sandwich boards listing their wrongdoings.
- "There was a certain segment of population that wanted to tar and feather the mayor for even suggesting it," the city clerk recalled.
- While she tries to use rational persuasion, her two henchwomen can hardly wait to tar and feather the mutinous victim.
- The young folks had begged the sheriff not to lock up Tony Williams, but the old folks, who were the majority in the town, had voted to tar and feather him.
- In the mid-1750s, people would get so outraged at such injustices they would storm the governor's mansion, tar and feather him, loot his estate and then burn his house down.
tar people with the same brush Consider certain people to have the same faults. they're all tarred with the same brush, that family Example sentencesExamples - The landlord, for whom I act as agent, and I welcomed this report, but take offence at his ill-informed remarks, where she appears to be tarring most landlords with the same brush.
- As a result of such excess, the modest small business was afraid to speak out because all business was tarred with the one brush, he said.
- But care should be taken with generalisations because of the danger of unjustifiably tarring all young people with the same brush.
- Being human, it is all too easy to tar people with the same brush and see the religion as a threat.
- Like I said in another forum, its all well and good tarring people with the same brush, but beware that you don't end up attacking genuinely good people in the process.
- We have allowed your comment to remain in good faith and to show that we welcome debate and do not tar people with the same brush.
- The Acomb crackdown should curb their activities, and those of the troublemakers who have tarred all teenagers with the same brush.
- Maybe he has been to a few dodgy sessions and then has tarred all guitarists with the same brush!
- Instead of helping the underclass he is tarring the whole community with the same brush.
- When tarring people with the same brush is official government policy, then its going to be difficult to discourage people from doing likewise.
Origin Old English teru, teoru, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch teer, German Teer, and perhaps ultimately to tree. In the past tar was mainly distilled from wood, and the word tar may ultimately be related to tree. Tar or Jack tar has been a name for a sailor since the 17th century. It is perhaps an abbreviation of tarpaulin (early 17th century), which was also a nickname for a sailor. As well as being the name of a waterproof cloth of tarred canvas, a tarpaulin was a kind of hat worn by sailors. The expression tar with the same brush comes originally from the practice of shepherds using tar to cover any wounds suffered by their sheep, to prevent infection. (see half). To tar and feather someone was to smear them with tar and then cover them with feathers as a punishment. The practice was introduced into Britain in 1198, when Richard I decreed that it should be the punishment for members of the navy found guilty of theft. Since then it has sometimes been inflicted by a mob on an unpopular individual, notably against customs officials in the War of American Independence (1775–83), and by the IRA against people suspected of collaborating with the British.
Rhymes aargh, Accra, afar, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa, bah, bar, barre, bazaar, beaux-arts, Bekaa, bête noire, Bihar, bizarre, blah, Bogotá, Bonnard, bra, cafard, café noir, Calabar, car, Carr, Castlebar, catarrh, Changsha, char, charr, cigar, comme ci comme ça, commissar, coup d'état, de haut en bas, devoir, Dhofar, Directoire, Du Bois, Dumas, Dunbar, éclat, embarras de choix, escritoire, fah, famille noire, far, feu de joie, film noir, foie gras, Fra, galah, gar, guar, guitar, ha, hah, ha-ha, Halacha, hurrah, hussar, huzza, insofar, Invar, jar, je ne sais quoi, ka, kala-azar, Kandahar, khimar, Khorramshahr, knar, Krasnodar, Kwa, la-di-da, lah, Lehár, Loire, ma, mama, mamma, mar, Mardi Gras, ménage à trois, mirepoix, moire, nam pla, Navarre, noir, objet d'art, pa, pah, Panama, papa, par, Pará, Paraná, pas, pâté de foie gras, peau-de-soie, pietà, Pinot Noir, pooh-bah, poult-de-soie, pya, rah, registrar, Saar, Salazar, Sana'a, sang-froid, scar, schwa, Seychellois, shah, Shangri-La, shikar, ska, sol-fa, spa, spar, star, Starr, Stranraer, ta, tahr, tartare, tata, tra-la, tsar, Twa, Villa, voilà, waratah, yah nounPlural tars tɑːtɑr dated, informal A sailor. Example sentencesExamples - Earlier though, someone shouts the word ‘Avast!’ at a bunch of mutinous tars and everyone just giggles.’
- To the tars of Victoria's navy, especially those returning from the farthest flung corners of the empire, the Azores were the gateway to home.
- He is known to have had an eye for the ladies; he also could down a good tipple with the best of the tars.
- Against such descriptions, he juxtaposes the opinions of racists, embodied in the seedy character of Wilkes, the boastful character of Williams, and in the ‘other hangers-on’ and ‘tars’ at the Virginian tavern and Marine Coffee-House.
Synonyms seaman, seafarer, seafaring man, mariner
Origin Mid 17th century: perhaps an abbreviation of tarpaulin, also used as a nickname for a sailor at this time. nountɑrtär 1A dark, thick, flammable liquid distilled from wood or coal, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons, resins, alcohols, and other compounds. It is used in roadmaking and for coating and preserving timber. Example sentencesExamples - Commercial bit cleaner can be used to remove pitch and tar; however, a scrap piece of wood will usually do the trick.
- When he learnt of a valuable Baltic convoy carrying timber and tar for shipbuilding due into port, he waited to ambush it off Scarborough.
- In addition to poisons, smoke and fumes, steelworkers are exposed on an almost continuous basis to such toxic substances as tar, benzene and hydrochloric acid, to name only a few.
- On our way out of al-Juweibir, we stop and talk to a man putting a thick layer of tar on his grandfather's boat.
- The space between each pair of deck planks in a wooden ship was filled with a packing material called ‘oakum’ and then sealed with a mixture of pitch and tar.
- Using oils, acrylics, resin and tar on both wood and canvas support, the work reflects industrial, urban, suburban and natural views.
- The tar and stone mixture layer was found to be less than the prescribed 7 mm.
- However, it is understood the substance is a waste product created during the distillation of tar, coal, oil or gas and contained sulphuric acid.
- It wasn't too much later that I found myself working as a roofer in Aspen, Colorado, carrying buckets of hot tar up a ladder.
- Still impure, the gas was then passed through condensers and scrubbers to remove tar, and then through iron oxide purifiers to remove other impurities.
- Depending on the type and location of the flashings, roofing tar or silicone or butyl rubber sealants can be used to seal small cracks and gaps.
- For roofs this is generally done by applying a coating such as tar, acrylic, silicone or rubberized paint.
- She said if the road went through the area, it would transform Bennettsbridge into a major depot for tar and bricks.
- Spain needed pine for tar, turpentine, and wood-essential naval stores for its shipbuilding industry in Cuba.
- To remove tar, freeze it to brittleness with ice cubes and then scrape it off with a plastic spatula.
- Kerosene and the rest of the organic mixture's lighter components evaporated, leaving behind the heavier molecules that make up tar and asphalt.
- Tar pits form when crude oil seeps to the surface through fissures in the Earth's crust; the light fraction of the oil evaporates, leaving behind the heavy tar, or asphalt, in sticky pools.
- I continued walking across the hot black tar of the parking lot until I reached a dark blue Ferrari.
- But environment watchdogs said that residents have not been put at risk by a complex operation to remove chemicals including tar, cyanide, ammonia and carcinogenic coal naptha.
- They refined black tar to make plastic for the television casings, and they blew fine glass for the screens.
- 1.1 A resinous substance formed by burning tobacco or other material.
in combination high-tar cigarettes Example sentencesExamples - Smoking the drug carries a high risk of mouth, throat and lung cancer, the same as smoking cigarettes really but without the added nicotine and tar.
- Although triggers such as tobacco tar and radioactive radon gas are known to be linked to lung cancer, little is understood of the genetic damage that causes the disease.
- I was curious, are there any alternatives to cigarettes that don't have nicotine, tar, and all that other nasty stuff?
- Tobacco is a sweet smelling product of the aromatic leaves of the Nicotina plant, but contains carcinogenic and highly addictive substances like nicotine, tar and benzene.
- The stone walls and stick ceiling drip with black tar from decades of burning yak dung.
- Cannabis acts as a relaxant without damaging the liver from alcohol abuse and has less tar than a cigarette.
- Since 1980, members of the coalition have tried to persuade tobacco companies to limit the yields of tar and nicotine in cigarettes sold in developing countries and to add health warnings on their packaging.
- The tobacco used in these contraptions is not loaded with tar and nicotine as are cigarettes and it doesn't produce the noxious smog which so irritates non-smokers.
- There are, according to him, cigarettes available in India with five to six milligrams of tar and those with 18 milligrams of tar, but the average worked out to 12 milligrams.
- The fact that mild cigarettes contain less nicotine and tar than normal ones can create a false impression and lead people to smoke more than they otherwise would do.
- The ratio of tar to nicotine produced in the tobacco smoke of low tar cigarettes is in fact closely similar to that of conventional cigarettes.
- In line with the motive to instruct, there are diseased organs, a liver shrivelled from alcohol abuse, lungs disfigured by cigarette tar, the misshapen brain of an Alzheimer's sufferer.
- Earlier nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar were considered most harmful.
- He leaned in close, so close I could smell cigarette tar on his breath.
- The tar in tobacco contains hundreds of carcinogens that promote the transformation of normal cells into cancerous cells.
- Cannabis deposited four times as much tar on lungs as tobacco and could, if used regularly, cause cancer.
- In addition to nicotine, cigarette smoke is primarily composed of gases (mainly carbon monoxide) and tar.
- It also restricted the maximum amount of nicotine and tar to 1.5 milligrams and 20 milligrams respectively per cigarette.
- NRT products provide a way of coping with nicotine withdrawal without taking in the harmful substances of tar and carbon monoxide.
- Hardwoods are better because they burn hotter and form less creosote, an oily, black tar that sticks to chimneys and stove pipes.
verbtɑrtär [with object]usually as adjective tarredCover (something) with tar. Example sentencesExamples - This road will eventually be tarred up to Oranjemund, the southernmost town on the coastline.
- The corporation is very active at the moment in tarring roads in many housing estates.
- A back road in the area had never been tarred and he wondered if there were any other roads like that in county Mayo.
- According to the residents some of the roads here have not been tarred for over five years now.
- The shortest days has been 16 hours and it seemed shorter than any seven hour days I used to put in at a bank or tarring roads.
- He pointed to the plan of having all roads in Soweto tarred by the end of 2005.
- The few tarred roads are the connection to the coastal countries, along with a railway line to Abidjan.
- When the city council decided to invite small and medium enterprises as contractors tarring roads in the city, almost half of the contractors were women.
- Proper tarred roads should be built in rural areas and bus facilities made available in every nook and corner of the State.
- He said although the distance being tarred may not be very long, its significance to the local economy is immense.
- The piles were tarred ironbark and the beams were kauri with iron brackets to brace them.
- This big barge was tarred black all around the hull for protection from leakages.
- The inside of the bomb is tarred to keep the explosive away from the metal on the inside of the bomb.
- By then the road was tarred, but just a few years previously it was nothing more than a graveled roadway.
- The aggregate number of kilometres of road that have been tarred, bridges built or repaired can also be quantified.
- He said Sophiatown had a reasonably decent infrastructure, and all the roads were tarred.
- We couldn't help noticing either how small towns in rural KZN are connected by good tarred roads.
- These roads were tarred just six months ago and with the recent rains, deep potholes have emerged.
- This road, which was just a sand road up to now, was tarred last week.
- Today he is a successful actor who, after window cleaning, tried his hand at being a holiday rep in Majorca, a postman, selling papers, a labourer and tarring roads - all in Northern Ireland.
Synonyms cover, surface, floor, top, finish, concrete, concrete over, asphalt, flag, tile, tarmac, metal
Phrases beat (or whale) the tar out of informal Beat or thrash severely. Example sentencesExamples - And I'll remember that he can beat the tar out of me.
- There's a technique I'm going to show you that will make it sound and look like you two are whaling the tar out of each other, but you'll be unharmed… if you do it correctly.
- If anything goes wrong I can beat the tar out of him.
- He knew how to treat women right, and he was ready to beat the tar out of anyone who didn't.
- And as fun as it is to watch his emotion on the lanes, if I were on the approach listening to him beat the tar out of me, it would be all I could do to keep my composure and not knock those shades fight off his face.
- In January of 2002, he fought Vernon Forrest, who beat the tar out of him in their first fight and won convincingly in the rematch six months later.
- They lunged at us with anything that they could grab hold of, and attempting to beat the tar out of us.
- He looks exactly like her ex, he used to beat the tar out of her.
- Throwing a flurry of punches and kicks, he continually beat the tar out of his opponent without breaking a sweat.
- The illusion had worked perfectly, though it'd been hard to keep himself from laughing when he beat the tar out of him.
Smear with tar and then cover with feathers as a punishment. Example sentencesExamples - Whilst my views may represent a certain amount of leftist thought, they are not saying ‘Let's murder the government, lynch the Monarchy and tar and feather local police forces’.
- Before you answer, you would have no opportunity to grill him, tar and feather him or subject him to any form of torture.
- Before everybody starts to tar and feather me, or put me in the traitor category with him, I'm as thrilled as anyone that we won.
- "There was a certain segment of population that wanted to tar and feather the mayor for even suggesting it," the city clerk recalled.
- We don't duck adulterous women any more; nor do we tar and feather them.
- In the mid-1750s, people would get so outraged at such injustices they would storm the governor's mansion, tar and feather him, loot his estate and then burn his house down.
- They wanted to know if they could tar and feather her and put her in the swimming pool.
- While she tries to use rational persuasion, her two henchwomen can hardly wait to tar and feather the mutinous victim.
- The young folks had begged the sheriff not to lock up Tony Williams, but the old folks, who were the majority in the town, had voted to tar and feather him.
- I am not talking about some piffling scheme to tar and feather wrong 'uns, or force them to walk up and down Petergate wearing sandwich boards listing their wrongdoings.
tar people with the same brush Consider specified people to have the same faults. Example sentencesExamples - Being human, it is all too easy to tar people with the same brush and see the religion as a threat.
- The landlord, for whom I act as agent, and I welcomed this report, but take offence at his ill-informed remarks, where she appears to be tarring most landlords with the same brush.
- Like I said in another forum, its all well and good tarring people with the same brush, but beware that you don't end up attacking genuinely good people in the process.
- We have allowed your comment to remain in good faith and to show that we welcome debate and do not tar people with the same brush.
- The Acomb crackdown should curb their activities, and those of the troublemakers who have tarred all teenagers with the same brush.
- Instead of helping the underclass he is tarring the whole community with the same brush.
- Maybe he has been to a few dodgy sessions and then has tarred all guitarists with the same brush!
- As a result of such excess, the modest small business was afraid to speak out because all business was tarred with the one brush, he said.
- When tarring people with the same brush is official government policy, then its going to be difficult to discourage people from doing likewise.
- But care should be taken with generalisations because of the danger of unjustifiably tarring all young people with the same brush.
Origin Old English teru, teoru, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch teer, German Teer, and perhaps ultimately to tree. nountɑrtär dated, informal A sailor. Example sentencesExamples - Against such descriptions, he juxtaposes the opinions of racists, embodied in the seedy character of Wilkes, the boastful character of Williams, and in the ‘other hangers-on’ and ‘tars’ at the Virginian tavern and Marine Coffee-House.
- Earlier though, someone shouts the word ‘Avast!’ at a bunch of mutinous tars and everyone just giggles.’
- To the tars of Victoria's navy, especially those returning from the farthest flung corners of the empire, the Azores were the gateway to home.
- He is known to have had an eye for the ladies; he also could down a good tipple with the best of the tars.
Synonyms seaman, seafarer, seafaring man, mariner
Origin Mid 17th century: perhaps an abbreviation of tarpaulin, also used as a nickname for a sailor at this time. |