tar : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tar	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for tar
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tar n any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue Synonym(s): pitch, tar a man who serves as a sailor Synonym(s): mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog v coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tar \Tar\, n. [Abbrev. from tarpaulin.] A sailor; a seaman. [Colloq.] --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tar \Tar\, n. [OE. terre, tarre, AS. teru, teoru; akin to D. teer, G. teer, theer, Icel. tjara, Sw. tj[84]ra, Dan. ti[91]re, and to E. tree. [fb]63. See {Tree}.] A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it. {Coal tar}. See in the Vocabulary. {Mineral tar} (Min.), a kind of soft native bitumen. {Tar board}, a strong quality of millboard made from junk and old tarred rope. --Knight. {Tar water}. (a) A cold infusion of tar in water, used as a medicine. (b) The ammoniacal water of gas works. {Wood tar}, tar obtained from wood. It is usually obtained by the distillation of the wood of the pine, spruce, or fir, and is used in varnishes, cements, and to render ropes, oakum, etc., impervious to water.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tar \Tar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tarred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tarring}.] To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth. {To tar and feather a person}. See under {Feather}, v. t.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
tar ("Tape ARchive", following {ar}) {Unix}'s general purpose {archive} utility and the file format it uses. Tar was originally intended for use with {magnetic tape} but, though it has several {command line options} related to tape, it is now used more often for packaging files together on other media, e.g. for distribution via the {Internet}. The resulting archive, a "tar file" (humourously, "tarball") is often compressed, using {gzip} or some other form of compression (see {tar and feather}). There is a {GNU} version of tar called {gnutar} with several improvements over the standard versions. {Filename extension}: .tar {MIME type}: unregistered, but commonly application/x-tar {Unix manual page}: tar(1). Compare {shar}, {zip}. (1998-05-02)