tar

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

Middle English terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwan (compare West Frisian tarre, Dutch teer), from Proto-Indo-European *deru̯o (compare Welsh derw ‘oaks’, Lithuanian dervà ‘pinewood, resin’, Russian дерево (dérevo) ‘tree’), from *dóru ‘tree’. More at tree.

[edit] Noun

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  1. (uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
  2. Coal tar.
  3. (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
  4. (slang, dated) A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.
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tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

  1. (transitive) To coat with tar.
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Abbreviation of tape archive.

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tar (plural tars)

  1. (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix.
  2. (computing) A file produced by such a program.
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tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

  1. (computing) To create a tar archive.

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tar

  1. to be (referring to geographical place)
  2. to be (referring to something temporary)

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  • IPA: /ˈtɒr/

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tar

  1. bald

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[edit] Irish

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  • IPA: [t̪ˠaɾˠ]

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tar

  1. to come

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tar thar dtar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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tar

  1. Rafsi of tarci.

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From Arabic طار (ʈá:ra, to fly).

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tar (imperfect jtir, past participle mtajjar)

  1. to fly

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tar (verbal noun çheet, simple past haink)

  1. to come

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Cognate with Welsh tra and Latin trāns.

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tar

  1. over, across

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Takes the accusative case.

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tar

  1. present tense of ta.
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