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Tar - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Tar : \Tar\, n. [OE. terre, tarre, AS. teru, teoru; akin to D.
teer, G. teer, theer, Icel. tjara, Sw. tj["a]ra, Dan.
ti[ae]re, and to E. tree. [root]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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tar : \Tar\, n. [Abbrev. from tarpaulin.]
A sailor; a seaman. [Colloq.] --Swift.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Tar : Tape ARchiver (Unix)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Tar |
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mankomank: @superglad_band sep mas,Tar klo ank2 dsni bkin acra tak usahain sperglad msk list.. Thx bngt mas |
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arim029: Sore bro!jam 3an lbih dkt,bsakan RT @anggarasastra: @arim029 Rim Tar ksni jam brp? |
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slagverkskomp: spotTar lite manligt på golvet, Tar en kaffe & börjar mölja igenom dagens hög med packningsklara ordrar. Puh!!! |
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