Mastic vs. Tar — What's the Difference?

The mastic tree.

Tar is a dark brown or black viscous liquid of hydrocarbons and free carbon, obtained from a wide variety of organic materials through destructive distillation. Tar can be produced from coal, wood, petroleum, or peat.Mineral products resembling tar can be produced from fossil hydrocarbons, such as petroleum.

The aromatic resin of the mastic tree, used in varnishes and as a flavoring and formerly in chewing gum and as a medicine.

A dark, thick flammable liquid distilled from wood or coal, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons, resins, alcohols, and other compounds. It is used in road-making and for coating and preserving timber.

Any of various substances used as an adhesive or sealant.

A sailor.

A pastelike cement used in highway construction, especially one made with powdered lime or brick and tar.

Cover (something) with tar

An evergreen shrub or small tree, Pistacia lentiscus (mastic tree), native to the Mediterranean.

A dark, oily, viscous material, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, produced by the destructive distillation of organic substances such as wood, coal, or peat.

A hard, brittle, aromatic and transparent resin produced by this tree and used to make varnishes and chewing gum, and as a flavouring.

See coal tar.

An alcoholic liquor flavoured with this resin.

A solid residue of tobacco smoke containing byproducts of combustion.

A flexible, waterproof cement used as an adhesive, sealant or filler.

A sailor.

A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia (Pistacia Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; - called also, mastic tree.

To coat with or as if with tar.

A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes.

A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.

A kind of cement composed of burnt clay, litharge, and linseed oil, used for plastering walls, etc.

Coal tar.

An aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes

(uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.

A pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler

A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.

(uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.

(computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.

(computing) A file produced by such a program.

A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.

A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.

(transitive) To coat with tar.

(transitive) To besmirch.

To create a tar archive.

A sailor; a seaman.

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.

To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.

Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

A man who serves as a sailor

Coat with tar;