chapapote — meaning in English

English meaning

• asphalt noun A thick, sticky black substance used mainly for surfacing roads, mixed with sand and gravel.
• tar noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.

Senses

chapapote is used for these senses in English:

• asphalt A sticky, black to brown and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid, composed almost entirely of bitumen with small mineral particles, that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits.
• tar (usually, uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.

asphalt — full definition

1. noun A thick, sticky black substance used mainly for surfacing roads, mixed with sand and gravel.
2. verb To cover a surface with asphalt.

tar — full definition

1. noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
2. verb To coat something with tar.
3. noun In computing, a program (and the archive file it creates) used to bundle multiple files together on Unix-based systems.

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