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tar | American Dictionary

tar
noun[ U ]
us/tɑr/

tarnoun[U] (SUBSTANCE FOR ROADS)

a black substance, sticky when hot, used esp. for making roads

tarnoun[U] (SUBSTANCE IN SMOKE)

a substance in tobacco smoke that causes harm to the lungs
tar
verb[ T ]
us/tɑr/-rr-

tarverb[T] (PUT ON ROADS)

to put tar on a surface, esp. a road:
They’ll be tarring our street this week.

Examples of tar

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Some of these other files might be tar'd up bundles for convenient download; whatever you provide we'll use.
A number of centres use tar ointment for its antipruritic and emollient properties.
Metal scrapers were also used to remove hard tar deposits from wood or log fire smoke.
The tar-calculus is a suitable setting for studying the theory of substitutions, where we can express and prove desirable mathematical properties.
I think it will be coated with black tar to have an organic quality.
The human being's natural limits in dealing with complexity make this a dangerous situation full of sticky intellectual tar pits.
People tarred as criminals and deviants contested elite understanding of their behaviour, while often defending themselves by inverting the same discourse that condemned them.
For example, a benefit obtained from low tar might be to project a rational image to others.
Tar-containing or antifungal shampoos may also be used to treat the scalp.
In this case, low tar is the means but projecting a rational image to others is the benefit.
Some breeders in the past have objected to tar based preparations because of staining.
But is it really fair to tar linguists with the brush of prescriptivism?
Agriculture dominated the economy, but most farmers were also engaged in the production of tar and saltpetre.
Those who fail to make adequate provision for themselves are, and increasingly will be, tarred with the brush of irresponsibility.
On the other hand, reviews of such massive works cannot be of equal nature (or length) or the reviewers risk the academic equivalent of tar and feathers.
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