tart

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

May be from Old English teart.

[edit] Adjective

tart (comparative tarter, superlative tartest)

  1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
    a tart apple
  2. Of wine: high or too high in acidity.
  3. (figuratively) Sharp; keen; severe.
    a tart reply
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  • (of wine: high in acidity): green
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[edit] Etymology 2

Old French tarte (flat pastry).

[edit] Noun

Singular
tart

Plural
tarts

tart (plural tarts)

  1. A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.
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[edit] Etymology 3

From sweetheart or jam tart (attractive woman) by shortening

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Singular
tart

Plural
tarts

tart (plural tarts)

  1. (British) (slang) A prostitute.
  2. (British) (slang) By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals.
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Infinitive
to tart

Third person singular
tarts

Simple past
tarted

Past participle
tarted

Present participle
tarting

to tart (third-person singular simple present tarts, present participle tarting, simple past and past participle tarted)

  1. To practice prostitution
  2. To practice promiscuous sex
  3. To dress garishly or ostentatiously
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[edit] Anagrams

  • Anagrams of artt
  • attr

[edit] Dutch

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tart

  1. challenges, dares, defies (first-person, second-person and third-person singular present tense of tarten)

[edit] Hungarian

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  • IPA: /ˈtɒrt/

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tart

  1. to keep (many different senses overlapping with English, see examples)
    (somewhere): A fontos papírokat a fiókban tartom. - I keep the important documents in the drawer.
    (somehow): A hűtő hidegen tartja az ételt. - The refrigerator keeps the food cold.
    (pet): Kutyát tart. - S/he keeps a dog.
    (idiom): Tartja a szavát. - He keeps his word. (i.e. a promise)
  2. to hold
    Könyvet tart a kezében. - He holds a book in his hand.
    A falak tartják a tetőt. - The walls hold the roof.
  3. to take up space or time, extend, to last (-tól/-től ... -ig)
    (in time): Az előadás délig tart. - The lecture goes on until noon. (The lecture ends at noon)
    (in space): A dugó a Petőfi utcától a Kossuth utcáig tart. - The traffic jam extends from the Petőfi Street up until the Kossuth Street.
  4. momentarily describing whether a process is still in progress, and if yes how far it has gone
    A könyv elején tartok. - I am at the beginning of the book.
    Tart még a film a tévében? - Is the film still playing on TV?
  5. to head into a direction
    Merre tartasz? - Where are you headed?
  6. to fear (-tól/-től)
    Tartok a betörőktől. - I'm afraid of burglars.
  7. (mathematics) converge, have limit at (-hoz/-hez/-höz or -ba/-be)
    A sorozat 0-hoz tart. - The sequence converges to 0.

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[edit] Irish

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  • IPA: [t̪ˠaɾˠt̪ˠ]

[edit] Noun

tart m.

  1. thirst
    tart orm – "I am thirsty" (lit. "Thirst is on me")
    Chuir an liamhás tart air – "The ham made him thirsty" (lit. "The ham put thirst on him.")

[edit] Declension

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative tart
Vocative a thart
Genitive tarta
Dative tart

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an tart
Genitive an tarta
Dative leis an tart

don tart

[edit] Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tart thart dtart
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.