Synonyms of the word tar


TARBITUMEN - COAT - CREWMAN - GOB - MARINER - PITCH - SAILOR - SEAFARER - SEAMAN - SURFACE

tar

  • n. (uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from…
  • n. Coal tar.
  • n. (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
  • n. (slang, dated) A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.
  • n. Black tar, a form of heroin.
  • v. (transitive) To coat with tar.
  • v. (transitive) To besmirch.
  • n. (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix.
  • n. (computing) A file produced by such a program.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.
  • n. (music) A Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle…
  • n. (music) A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.

bitumen

  • n. Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew’s pitch. It occurs as an abundant…
  • n. By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called…
  • n. (Canada) Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil.

coat

  • n. (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp.
  • n. (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.Wp.
  • n. (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp.
  • n. (uncountable, nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent…
  • n. (obsolete) A petticoat.
  • n. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
  • n. A coat of arms.Wp.
  • n. A coat card.
  • v. To cover with a coat of some material.
  • v. To cover as a coat.

crewman

  • n. A member of a crew, especially the crew of a ship.
  • n. (Canada, military) The military trade of armoured crewman, abbreviated.

gob

  • n. (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
  • n. (countable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
  • n. (US, military, slang) A sailor.
  • n. (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
  • n. (US, regional) A whoopee pie.
  • v. To gather into a lump.
  • v. To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

mariner

  • n. A sailor.

pitch

  • n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
  • n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
  • n. (geology) Pitchstone.
  • v. To cover or smear with pitch.
  • v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
  • n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
  • n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
  • n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
  • n. An effort to sell or promote something.
  • n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
  • n. The angle at which an object sits.
  • n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
  • n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
  • n. The place where a busker performs.
  • n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
  • n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
  • n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
  • n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
  • n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
  • n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
  • n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
  • n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
  • n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
  • v. (transitive) To throw.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
  • v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
  • v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
  • v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
  • v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
  • v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
  • v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
  • v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
  • v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
  • v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
  • v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
  • v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
  • n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
  • n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

sailor

  • n. One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management…
  • n. a person who sails sailing boats as a sport or recreation; see also yachtsman.

seafarer

  • n. A sailor or mariner.
  • n. One who travels by sea.

seaman

  • n. A mariner or sailor, one who mans a ship. Opposed to landman or landsman.
  • n. (Britain, Navy) The lowest ranking in the Navy, below Able Seaman.
  • n. (US, Navy) An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty…
  • n. A merman; the male of the mermaid.

surface

  • n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
  • n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
  • n. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
  • n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom)…
  • n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the…
  • v. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
  • v. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
  • v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
  • v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
  • v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.

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