tar

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tar

A worker uses tar to seal a flat roof.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A dark, thick, sticky liquid: A black or dark brown viscous substance obtained by the destructive distillation of organic materials such as wood, coal, or peat. It is used for waterproofing, preserving, and paving.
    • A sailor: (Informal, often old-fashioned) A term for a sailor, especially one in the navy.

  2. Verb:

    • To coat with tar: To cover or treat a surface with tar.
Usage Examples
  • Noun (Substance):
    • The road crew applied fresh tar to the cracks.
    • The smell of hot tar filled the air near the construction site.
  • Noun (Sailor):
    • The old tar told stories of his voyages across the Atlantic.
  • Verb:
    • They plan to tar the driveway next week.
    • The wooden fence was tarred to protect it from the rain.
Advanced Usage
  • "To tar someone/something with the same brush": To unfairly consider someone or something to have the same faults as another person or thing because they are part of the same group.
    • Just because one employee was dishonest, don't tar the whole team with the same brush.
  • "Tar and feather": To punish or humiliate someone by covering them in tar and then feathers (historically a form of mob punishment).
    • The novel describes how the mob threatened to tar and feather the official.
Variants and Related Words
  • Tarry (adj): Resembling or covered with tar.
    • The tarry residue was difficult to clean.
  • Tarmac (n): A material used for surfacing roads or runways, consisting of crushed rock mixed with tar. (Note: This is a compound word, not a direct variant of 'tar' alone).
  • Coal tar (n): A thick black liquid produced when coal is turned into coke or gas, used in making various chemical products.
Synonyms
  • Noun (Substance): Pitch, asphalt, bitumen.
  • Noun (Sailor): Seaman, mariner, salt (informal).
  • Verb: Coat, cover, smear.
Related Phrasal Verbs / Constructions
  • Tar over: To cover something completely with tar.
    • They tarred over the old gravel path to make it smoother.
Related Idioms
  • "To be tarred with the same brush": (See Advanced Usage).
  • "Tarred with the same stick": An alternative, less common form of the idiom above, with the same meaning.
tar

A worker uses tar to seal a flat roof.

Noun
  1. a man who serves as a sailor
  2. any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
Verb
  1. coat with tar
    • tar the roof
    • tar the roads

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