tar in Chinese
tar in Chinese is 焦油 — tar means a thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
tar in Chinese
焦油
Pronounced: jiāo yóu
(uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
What does "tar" mean?
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noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
"Workers spread hot tar over the new road surface."
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verb To coat something with tar.
"They tarred the roof to seal it against leaks."
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noun In computing, a program (and the archive file it creates) used to bundle multiple files together on Unix-based systems.
"He extracted the source code from the tar file."
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tar in a sentence
- Workers spread hot tar over the new road surface.
- They tarred the roof to seal it against leaks.
- He extracted the source code from the tar file.
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What is "tar" in Chinese?
"tar" in Chinese is 焦油. tar means: A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
How do you pronounce 焦油?
"tar" in Chinese is 焦油, pronounced "jiāo yóu".
How do you use "tar" in a sentence?
Example: "Workers spread hot tar over the new road surface." In Chinese, "tar" is 焦油.
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