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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gob, jack, jack-tar, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman |
| Type of | sailor, crewman |
| Has types | bargee, bargeman, bo's'n, bo'sun, boatswain, bos'n, bosun, able-bodied seaman, able seaman, ship's officer, steerer, steersman, whaler, deckhand, helmsman, lighterman, officer, pilot, roustabout, sea lawyer |
Examples of tar
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Tar Heels wideout Jheranie Boyd caught six passes for 221 yards and a touchdown.
From the washingtonpost.com
Los Angeles boasts world-class museums dedicated to art, cars and even tar pits.
From the latimes.com
However, the production of petroleum from tar sands causes environmental damage.
From the sciencedaily.com
After tar sands, BP is going into some of the planet's most pristine wilderness.
From the independent.co.uk
This, in turn, means more smoke per unit volume, and thus more tar and nicotine.
From the economist.com
The other part of this is the singular nature of the pipeline and the tar sands.
From the scienceblogs.com
One person must unlock 10 locks around the tree of love to release a TAR ribbon.
From the orlandosentinel.com
He was also arrested in September for protesting the Keystone tar sands project.
From the variety.com
There, the NGLs are used to dilute tar sands so they can flow through pipelines.
From the forbes.com
- Coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"
- Pitch: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- Mariner: a man who serves as a sailor
- Tar is modified pitch (resin) produced primarily from the wood and roots of pine by destructive distillation under pyrolysis. Production and trade in tar was a major contributor in the economies of Northern Europe and Colonial America. Its main use was in preserving wooden vessels against rot. ...
- Tar was an American post-hardcore band, formed in 1988 in Chicago, Illinois.
- A Tar (Arabic: u0637u0627u0631u200Eu200E) is a single-headed frame drum of Turkish origin, but is commonly played in North Africa and the Middle East.
- In computing, tar (derived from tape archive and commonly referred to as "tarball") is both a file format (in the form of a type of archive bitstream) and the name of a program used to handle such files. The format was created in the early days of Unix and standardized by POSIX. ...
- The IPCC Third Assessment Report, Climate Change 2001, is an assessment of available scientific and socio-economic information on climate change by an intergovermental panel (IPCC) established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
- Tar (Persian: u062Au0627u0631u200Eu200E) is a Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries like Iran, , Georgia, Republic of Azerbaijan, and other areas near the Caucasus region. The word tu0101r (u062Au0627u0631) means "string" in Persian, though it might have the same meaning in languages influenced by Persian...
