Tartar (redirected from Tartars)

Tar·tar  (tärtr)

n.

1. also Ta·tar (tätr) A member of any of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples of central Asia who invaded western Asia and eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.

2. Variant of Tatar.

3. often tartar A person regarded as ferocious or violent.

Idiom:

catch a Tartar

To grapple with an unexpectedly formidable opponent.

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[Middle English Tartre, from Old French Tartare, from Medieval Latin Tartarus, alteration (influenced by Latin Tartarus, Tartarus) of Persian Ttr; see Tatar.]

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tar·tar  (tärtr)

n.

1. Dentistry A hard yellowish deposit on the teeth, consisting of organic secretions and food particles deposited in various salts, such as calcium carbonate. Also called calculus.

2. A reddish acid compound, chiefly potassium bitartrate, found in the juice of grapes and deposited on the sides of casks during winemaking.

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[Middle English tartre, potassium bitartrate, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tartarum, argol, from Medieval Greek tartaron.]

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tartar ¹

Noun

1. a hard deposit on the teeth

2. a brownish-red substance deposited in a cask during the fermentation of wine [Medieval Greek tartaron]

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tartar ²

Noun

a fearsome or formidable person [from Tartar]

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Tartar or Tatar

Noun

a member of a Mongoloid people who established a powerful state in central Asia in the 13th century, now scattered throughout Russia and central Asia

Adjective

of the Tartars [Persian Tātār]

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tartar  (tärtr)

1. A hard yellowish deposit on the teeth, consisting of organic secretions and food particles deposited in various salts, such as calcium carbonate.

2. A reddish acid compound consisting of a tartrate of potassium, found in the juice of grapes and deposited on the sides of wine casks.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tartar - a salt used especially in baking powder cream of tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate salt - a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
	2.	tartar - a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman dragon disagreeable woman, unpleasant woman - a woman who is an unpleasant person
	3.	Tartar - a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century Mongol Tatar, Tatar Mongol, Mongolian - a member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia
	4.	tartar - an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums calculus, tophus crust, encrustation, incrustation - a hard outer layer that covers something

Translations

tartar [ˈtɑːtəʳ] n (on teeth) → sarro

tartar [ˈtɑːtəʳ] n (on teeth) → tartre m

tartar [ˈtɑːtəʳ] n (on teeth) → Zahnstein m;

(pej) (person) → Tyrann(in) m(f)

tartar [ˈtɑːtəʳ] n (on teeth) → tartaro