Tar vs. Tart — What's the Difference?

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.

A tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry; the filling may be sweet or savoury, though modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard.

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.

Having a sharp pungent taste; sour.

A sailor.

Sharp or bitter in tone or meaning; cutting.

Cover (something) with tar

A pastry shell with shallow sides, no top crust, and any of various fillings.

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

Chiefly British A pie.

See coal tar.

A prostitute.

A solid residue of tobacco smoke containing byproducts of combustion.

A woman considered to be sexually promiscuous.

A sailor.

To dress up or make fancy in a tawdry, garish way. Often used with up.

To coat with or as if with tar.

Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.

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

(of wine) high or too high in acidity.

Coal tar.

(figuratively) Sharp; keen; severe.

(uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.

A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.

A melt block of wax for use in a tart burner.

(uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.

A prostitute.

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

Any woman with loose sexual morals.

(computing) A file produced by such a program.

To practice prostitution.

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

To practice promiscuous sex.

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

To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily.

(transitive) To coat with tar.

Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.

(transitive) To besmirch.

Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke.

To create a tar archive.

A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

A sailor; a seaman.

A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

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.

A small open pie with a fruit filling

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

Pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust

Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

Tasting sour like a lemon

A man who serves as a sailor

Harsh;

Coat with tar;