tar

Object

road: Access: By way of good hard dirt tracks of a few km from the tarred road.

Converse of object

• melt: The next morning there was a large hole in the road as the heat from the bonfire had melted the tar!
• burn: By now the heat of the day was starting to burn the tar on the roads.
• beat: With water the fortunes are reversed the toffee beats the tar.

Adjective modifier

• crude: In 1817, the GLCC decided to process all its crude tar itself, instead of selling it.
• birch: There are historical records referring to the use of birch bark tar to relieve sore throats.
• jolly: Stretch'd along the deck like logs - Bear a hand, you jolly tar, you!

Modifies a noun

• -xvf: Unpacked it with gunzip and the run the tar -xvf comman on it.
• xf: Use gunzip -c filename.tar.gz | tar xf - then type make to compile the program.
• cigarette: There's been a move toward low tar cigarettes.
• macadam: The pavements are cobbles, and tar macadam on the road was unknown.
• distiller: The tar distillers could not at first supply it in sufficient quantity or of the required purity.
• barrel: In the same era that spawned the Newark tar barrel incident equally rowdy goings on could be found in the villages around the town.

Noun used with modifier

• coal: Many of these stains were coal tar dyes developed in a dazzling array for the textile industry.
• mg: Low tar cigarettes ( defined as those yielding less than 10 mg tar ) began to take an increasing market share.
• bark: There are historical records referring to the use of birch bark tar to relieve sore throats.
• cigarette: The tar reduction study: randomized trial of the effect of cigarette tar yield reduction on compensatory smoking.
• pine: In the 19th century, fishermen still caulked ( filled the gaps in ) their boats with a mixture of pine tar and moss.
• wood: Wood creosote derived from wood tar differs in composition from coal tar.

Preposition: with

brush: In the same way many decent Germans were tarred with the brush of Adolf.