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Meanings of tar in inglês

português
joão
catalão
mariner
Wikidata

A man who serves as a sailor.

joão
português
alcatrão
catalão
brea
espanhol
pez

Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.

alcatrão
Synonyms
Examples for "pitch"
Examples for "pitch"
1
There was no need to continue his sales pitch-hehad good instincts.
Afternoon delight
2
Summer, however, has seen high-profile arrivals in all areas of the pitch.
The Guardian
3
Kosovo formally made its pitch for independence during talks with Serbia today.
The Irish Times
4
The goal: using all this data to pitch users highly personalized advertising.
Reuters
5
I would love to lead just one pitch if at all possible.
Climbing Magazine
Usage of tar in inglês
1
Read: Incomplete tar road built in rural Eastern Cape cost R117 million
The South African
2
Many European oil companies have major interests in the Canadian tar sands.
The Guardian
3
The tar moves slowly but seven thousand years is a long time.'
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
4
Canadian officials have called development of the tar sands a national priority.
The Guardian
5
In the tar furnace, the tar itself burns, and the tar only.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
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This cynical approach to tar my reputation has to stop, he added.
Reuters
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He had a tar kiln; he cut splinters put them on it.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
8
The tar-pot fell to the deck, and I very nearly accompanied it.
Windjammers and Sea Tramps
9
It was like a sea of swirling, spiraling tar, thick and viscous.
Ghost memories
10
This is the mine of chapapote or mineral tar of the country.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
11
I described finding the hand bones and the glob of pine tar.
Speaking in Bones
12
Of course, he could only do that from underneath the tar-soaked fabric.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
13
Two of them carried torches made of old brooms dipped in tar.
The Rover Boys in Business; Or, The Search for the Missing Bonds
14
It moved with sure, fleeting motions across the sodden tar and clay.
Perdido Street Station
15
The costly pine tar was soon replaced by the cheaper coal tar.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891
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He had built the shed well and lined it with tar paper.
Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California
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