What's the difference between sailor and tar?

Sailor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Separation of the methyl esters was performed on columns of 10% sailor on Chromosorb.
  • (2) "I don't know why," he says, but it's something that didn't even happen at his lowest ebb: amid the bleakness of the early 70s, he somehow kept sporadically producing incredible songs: Til I Die, This Whole World, Sail On Sailor… There's always touring, however.
  • (3) The great god Pan is dead, as a voice was heard to cry by sailors in the age of the Roman emperor Augustus.
  • (4) This is a haven for sailors from near and far, and filled with locals whose faces you might recognise from Howards' Way.
  • (5) The releases, including that of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, coincided with the end of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, and came days after the release of 10 American sailors briefly detained by the Revolutionary Guard.
  • (6) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
  • (7) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
  • (8) A set of factors of ship's environment greatly affected the onset of diseases in sailors.
  • (9) The peculiarities of the circulatory functions were examined in sailors following nautical voyages of varying duration and directly on board during a 6-month cruise.
  • (10) The rejection of contentious themes resulted in a domestic drama in which Ellida's sexual rejection of her husband and her obsession with the lost sailor is steered towards an uplifting conclusion.
  • (11) Manouchehr Mottaki told the Associated Press that Britain must admit that its sailors entered Iranian waters for the standoff to be resolved.
  • (12) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
  • (13) Beastly Brits Dom: This show should have been called “British people are awful”, which is what Owen says when they spot Kevin on what had to be the campest video-game launch in history (hello sailors!).
  • (14) Use of interrater agreement as a reliability index and two cutoff points for the partition of the sample resulted in the elimination of about one-third of the initial sampl and the formation of two subsamples-the "sick" (N equals 45) and "not sick" (N equals 73) sailors.
  • (15) Several sailors were rescued from a yacht off the coast of Kent and from a dinghy in Portsmouth harbour.
  • (16) Iran dramatically raised the stakes in its tense diplomatic stand-off with Britain last night, broadcasting a propaganda video of the British sailors and marines seized last week, including a "confession" that they had entered Iranian waters.
  • (17) Last month General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the chief of the defence staff, warned that manpower was increasingly seen as an "overhead" and that Britain was in danger of being left with hollowed-out armed forces boasting "exquisite" equipment but lacking the soldiers, sailors and airmen needed to operate it.
  • (18) In Terry's recording from 1969, one black sailor describes how, "when they caught a brother with an Afro, they just took him down to the brig and cut all his hair off and throw him in jail.
  • (19) Prince Felipe, who competed as a sailor at the 1992 Barcelona Games, repeated the mantra that Madrid's bid "made sense" because 80% of the venues were already built.
  • (20) The International Sailing Federation said just over 7% of sailors competing at a mid-August Olympic warm-up event in Guanabara Bay fell ill but the federation has not conducted a full count of how many athletes got sick in the two weeks following the competition, the rough incubation period for many of the pathogens in the water.

Tar


Definition:

  • (n.) A sailor; a seaman.
  • (n.) A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.
  • (v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
  • (2) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
  • (3) It seems that the addition of liquid tar elevates the reaction threshold to dithranol in hypersensitive patients with psoriasis.
  • (4) We now present evidence that such a decrease in amounts of P68 could be essential for HIV-1 replication because of the presence of the Tat-responsive sequence (TAR sequence) present in the 5' untranslated region of HIV-1 mRNAs, which activates the P68 kinase.
  • (5) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
  • (6) Purified tat binds specifically to HIV-1 trans-activation-responsive region (TAR) RNA in gel-retardation, filter-binding, and immunoprecipitation assays.
  • (7) benj67 asks: How do you continue to justify continued your role in financing the Canadian tar sands, arguably a greater crime than the Libor scandal?
  • (8) Hansen has been an outspoken critic of tar sands, saying last year "it will be game over for the climate if development of the oil sands isn't stopped".
  • (9) In contrast, erythroid and myeloid colony growth from the TAR infant's marrow cells was preserved.
  • (10) Finally, by 6 min of heavy exercise at 8 mph 20% grade, Tar increased 2 degrees C (P less than 0.05) while Tre increased 0.5 degree C (P less than 0.05).
  • (11) Hydroxylamine mutagenesis was used to alter the tar gene that encodes the transmembrane Tar protein required for chemotaxis.
  • (12) A previously described smoking apparatus (20) was used for measurement of puff volume and inhaled tar.
  • (13) Again, tat protected TAR RNA from RNase A cleavage at both U23 and U31.
  • (14) Since its 2013 announcement, a key aim of TTIP has been to destroy regulations that prevent high-polluting tar sand crude oil from entering Europe.
  • (15) TARS-1 and TART-1 but not TARL-2 were transplantable into newborn syngeneic rats and nude mice.
  • (16) Both the occupational and in particular the therapeutic exposure to coal tar resulted in clear increases in urinary levels of PAH metabolites as compared to unexposed subjects.
  • (17) During the remission period the patients were advised to use a tar preparation or topical corticosteroids in the event of minor exacerbations.
  • (18) Biological studies have demonstrated that concentrated extract of tars from combustion of shale oil are carcingenic to the skin of mice.
  • (19) Beech tar, in a concentration of 5% induced a 19% increase in orthokeratosis.
  • (20) For the study reported in the present investigation these data have been augmented by estimates of past workplace exposure to total tar (benzene-soluble matter) and to benzo-a-pyrene (BaP).

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