Tar vs Tarn - What's the difference?
tar | tarn |
(uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
Coal tar.
(uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
(slang, dated) A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.
black tar, a form of heroin
To coat with tar.
To besmirch.
(computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix.
(computing) A file produced by such a program.
(computing) To create a tar archive.
(musical instruments) a Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus
(Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
* 1839, (1997),
As a proper noun tar
is a village in hungary.As a noun tarn is
tower.As a verb tarn is
.tar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at tree.Noun
(en noun)- (Jonathan Swift)
Derived terms
* coal tar * mineral tar * tar board * Tar Heel * tar water * tarmacadam, tarmac * tarpaulin * wood tarVerb
- Although he was found innocent, the allegations had tarred his name.
Derived terms
* tar and feather * tar with the same brushEtymology 2
Abbreviation of tape archive .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l)Verb
Antonyms
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* * *Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)tarn
English
Noun
(en noun)1,
- It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.