tar in Portuguese
tar in Portuguese is alcatrão, marujo, tar — tar means a thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
tar in Portuguese
alcatrão
marujo
(slang, dated) A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.
tar
(computing) A file produced by such a program.
alcatroar
(transitive) To coat with tar.
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 Portuguese?
"tar" in Portuguese is alcatrão, marujo, tar. tar means: A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
How do you use "tar" in a sentence?
Example: "Workers spread hot tar over the new road surface." In Portuguese, "tar" is alcatrão, marujo, tar.
Are there other ways to say "tar" in Portuguese?
Yes — Portuguese has 4 translations listed for "tar": alcatrão, marujo, tar, alcatroar.
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