kivihiiliterva — meaning in English
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English meaning
- tar noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
Senses
kivihiiliterva is used for these senses in English:
- coal tar A black, viscous tar made by the destructive distillation of coal (to make coke and town gas); it contains a great number of compounds including hydrocarbons and phenols; used in the preparation of medicinal soap and shampoo, and industrially for the manufacture of many products.
- tar Coal tar.
tar — full definition
- noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
- verb To coat something with tar.
- noun In computing, a program (and the archive file it creates) used to bundle multiple files together on Unix-based systems.