Usually means: Thick, dark, viscous liquid substance.
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We found 64 dictionaries that define the word tar:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tar, tar: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tar, tar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tar, tar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tar, t'ar, tar, tar, tar: Wordnik
  7. tar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Tar, tar: Wiktionary
  9. tar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tar: Dictionary.com
  13. tar (n.1), tar (n.2), tar (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TAR, TaR, Tar (Azerbaijani instrument), Tar (Tar-Vabriga), Tar (Unix), Tar (band), Tar (computing), Tar (disambiguation), Tar (drum), Tar (file format), Tar (film), Tar (instrument), Tar (lute), Tar (song), Tar (string instrument), Tar (tobacco residue), Tar, .tar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tar: Rhymezone
  19. tar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tar: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. tar: Free Dictionary
  23. tar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tar: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. tar: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Musical Instruments (No longer online)
  2. Tar: Early Patches (musical instruments)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Tar (viscous liquid), tar: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. tar: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. tar: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. Tar, tar: CCI Computer
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. TAR: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  6. Webopedia (No longer online)
  7. Tar (file format), Tar (viscous liquid), tar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Tar: Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Tar (viscous liquid), tar: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  3. TAR: Acronym Finder
  4. TAR: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. tar: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  3. TAR: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tar, tar, tar: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tar: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. tar: Urban Dictionary

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. TAR: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. TAR, TAR, tar: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  5. Explosives (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  8. Tar: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See taring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
noun:  Coal tar.
noun:  (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
noun:  (slang, dated) A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.
noun:  (uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.
verb:  (transitive) To coat with tar.
verb:  (transitive) To besmirch.
noun:  (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
noun:  (computing) A file produced by such a program.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.
noun:  A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
noun:  A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
noun:  A village in Hungary.
noun:  Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”) [(New Zealand, rare) The tern.]
noun:  (sometimes with the) Initialism of Tibet Autonomous Region, an administrative region of China. [An autonomous region of China, located on the Tibetan Plateau and part of Tibet, the home to the Tibetan people]

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