英语词汇“tar”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

noun | verb

tartar1 /tɑr/ noun [uncountable]

ETYMOLOGYtar¹

Origin: Old English teoru

COLLOCATIONS► high/low/medium tar

high tar cigarettes

1a black substance, thick and sticky when hot but hard when cold, used especially for making road surfaces → see also coal tar2a sticky substance that is formed by burning tobacco, and that gets into the lungs of people who smoke: high/low/medium tar high tar cigarettes

noun | verb

tartar2 verb (tarred, tarring) [transitive]

VERB TABLE

tar

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	tar
	he, she, it	tars
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	tarred
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have tarred
	he, she, it	has tarred
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had tarred
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will tar
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have tarred

Continuous Form
Present	I	am tarring
	he, she, it	is tarring
	you, we, they	are tarring
Past	I, he, she, it	was tarring
	you, we, they	were tarring
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been tarring
	he, she, it	has been tarring
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been tarring
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be tarring
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been tarring

1to cover a surface with tar2to spoil the good opinion that people have about someone: Kleider has been tarred by recent business scandals.3be/get tarred with the same brush to be blamed along with someone else for his or her faults or crimes4tar and feather somebody a)to cover someone in tar and feathers, done as a cruel punishment in past times b)to criticize or punish someone very severely and publicly