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" The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'"
Thomas Sowell

Meaning of "tartar" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TARTAR

From Medieval Latin tartarum, from Medieval Greek tartaron.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TARTAR

ˈtɑːtə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TARTAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tartar is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TARTAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tartar

Tartar may refer to: Ethnic appellation ▪ An alternative spelling of the name Tatars, an ethnic group in present-day Russia. ▪ The Tatar language. ▪ A member of the various tribes and their descendants of Tartary, such as Turks, Mongols and Manchus. ▪ Tartars, a name applied to the enemy invaders in The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati Places ▪ Tartar Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica ▪ Tartar, Switzerland, a village in the Grisons ▪ Tartar Rayon, a rayon in Azerbaijan ▪ Tərtər, capital of Tartar Rayon, Azerbaijan Food ▪ Tartar sauce ▪ Steak tartare, a meat dish made from ground raw beef Chemicals ▪ Salts of tartaric acid ▪ Cream of tartar ▪ Tartar emetic Vehicles and military hardware ▪ Tartar, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive ▪ Tartar was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915; renamed Walter Robinson in 1901.

Definition of tartar in the English dictionary

The definition of tartar in the dictionary is a hard crusty deposit on the teeth, consisting of food, cellular debris, and mineral salts. Other definition of tartar is Also called: argol. a brownish-red substance consisting mainly of potassium hydrogen tartrate, present in grape juice and deposited during the fermentation of wine.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TARTAR

batata · cantata · carta · Carter · charter · frittata · Jakarta · kick-starter · Kolkata · nonstarter · rata · restarter · sonata · Sparta · starter · strata · Surakarta · Tatar · Umtata · vrystater

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TARTAR

tartanalia · tartaned · tartanry · tartar emetic · tartar sauce · tartar steak · tartare · tartare sauce · tartare steak · Tartarean · tartareous · Tartarian · tartaric · tartaric acid · tartarisation · tartarise · tartarization · tartarize · tartarly · tartarous

WORDS THAT END LIKE TARTAR

all-star · altar · avatar · bricks and mortar · bricks-and-mortar · clicks and mortar · cream of tartar · five-star · Gibraltar · guitar · Katar · loadstar · mortar · nectar · Qatar · star · steak tartar · superstar · tar · trench mortar

Synonyms and antonyms of tartar in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tartar» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF TARTAR

Find out the translation of tartar to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of tartar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tartar» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

牙垢
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

sarro
570 millions of speakers
en

English

tartar
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

टैटार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجير
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Тартар
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

tartar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ছাতা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

tartre
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tartar
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Zahnstein
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

歯石
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

치석
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Tartar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cáu răng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பல்லில் படர்ந்திருக்கும் சீமை சுண்ணாம்பு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

दारू
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

çetin ceviz
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

tartaro
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Tatar
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Тартар
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

tartar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πέτρας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tartar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tandsten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tartar
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tartar

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TARTAR»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tartar

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QUOTES WITH «TARTAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tartar.
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Thomas Sowell
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TARTAR»

Discover the use of tartar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tartar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Tartar Steppe
Often Likened to Kafka's The Castle, this great Italian novel, first published in 1945, is both a scathing criticism of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory.
‎2005
2
An Introduction to Sobolev Spaces and Interpolation Spaces
After publishing an introduction to the Navier???Stokes equation and oceanography (Vol. 1 of this series), Luc Tartar follows with another set of lecture notes based on a graduate course in two parts, as indicated by the title.
Luc Tartar, 2007
3
The General Theory of Homogenization: A Personalized ...
Homogenization is not about periodicity, or Gamma-convergence, but about understanding which effective equations to use at macroscopic level, knowing which partial differential equations govern mesoscopic levels, without using probabilities ...
Luc Tartar, 2009
4
An Introduction to Navier-Stokes Equation and Oceanography
Corresponds to a graduate course in mathematics, taught at Carnegie Mellon University in the spring of 1999.
Luc Tartar, 2006
5
Old Tartar Trails
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
A. s. Kent, 2010
6
Russia: Tartar nations
TARTAR NATIONS, THE numerous original stocks of Tartar nations settled in the empire of Russia and its environs are distinguished by different names, Qne while they are called Tartars *, another while Tourouks, Tourks, or Tourkomans : but ...
Johann Gottlieb Georgi, 1780
7
The Tartar Khan's Englishman
"A splendid biography...it is gripping reading.
Gabriel Ronay, 2001
8
Breast Cancer Imaging: A Multidisciplinary, Multimodality ...
Through a case-based approach, this book illustrates the best practices for all facets of breast cancer imaging - from screening of asymptomatic patients to cancer staging, identifying metastases, and assessing efficacy of treatment - in a ...
Marie Tartar, Christopher E. Comstock, Michael S. Kipper, 2008
9
From Hyperbolic Systems to Kinetic Theory: A Personalized Quest
Tartar relies on his H-measures, a tool created for homogenization, to explain some of the weaknesses, e.g. from quantum mechanics: there are no 'particles', so the Boltzmann equation and the second principle, can not apply.
Luc Tartar, 2008
10
Overland through Asia, Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and ...
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide.
Thomas Wallace Knox, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TARTAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tartar is used in the context of the following news items.
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Here's the Weird Reason You Get Tartar On Your Teeth
Your body isn't a finely-tuned machine. It's a reinforced pile of goo that spends its day trading off costs and benefits. One of those costs is the tartar building up on ... «io9, Jul 15»
2
Alex Rees and André Tartar: Their Union Was No Accident
Alex Rhodri Rees and André Fonseca Tartar were married Saturday by Fátima Nóbrega, a notary, at the Quinta da Arriaga, a manor house in Sintra, Portugal. «New York Times, Jun 15»
3
Scientists Discover 400000-Year-Old Tartar on Cavemen Teeth
Even cavemen had to deal with pollution. Researchers found evidence of charcoal in 400,000-year-old tartar, a sign that early Paleolithic people had inhaled ... «NBCNews.com, Jun 15»
4
Flagler Beach restaurant's tartar sauce raising money for charities
The Golden Lion Café's private-label key lime tartar sauce will soon be featured in about 400 Publix locations across Central Florida. Half the sales are given to ... «Bay News 9, Jun 15»
5
Remove Stains from Stainless Steel Cookware with Cream of Tartar
You can scrub as much as you want, but some stains and discoloration just won't come off of your stainless steel cookware with scrubbing alone. Fortunately ... «Lifehacker, May 15»
6
Great Waters' new Tartar Control IPA: '9 out of 10 dentists …
To welcome about 9,000 dentists and oral hygiene professionals to town this weekend, Great Waters Brewing company is offering a new brew -- Tartar Control ... «TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press, Apr 15»
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Japanese Hamburger Eaters May Be Giving Tartar Sauce Too Much …
Instead you get two pieces of bread, lettuce, tartar sauce and general looks of amazement from food workers who we have to think are astounded this stuff sells. «TravelPulse, Apr 15»
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Clean Your Brick Fireplace with Cream of Tartar
Cleaning up a soot-stained fireplace can be a daunting job. There are commercial cleaners available, but they can be kind of harsh. Why not try a safer, cheaper ... «Lifehacker, Apr 15»
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Around the NHL: Shootout goals by Tartar, Nyquist give Red Wings …
Red Wings 3, Blackhawks 2, SO: Tomas Tartar scored in regulation and in the shootout, leading Jimmy Howard and Detroit to a victory over host Chicago last ... «Columbus Dispatch, Feb 15»
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Can Old Bay give new life to the McDonald's Filet-O-Fish sandwich?
The Filet-O-Fish isn't the chain's most popular menu item, but the fried fish sandwich with cheese and tartar sauce has a bit of a cult following. In 2010, former ... «Washington Post, Feb 15»
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