tartar
IPA: tˈɑrtɝ
noun
- A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar.
- A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque.
- (dated) A fearsome or angrily violent person.
- A member of the various tribes and their descendants of Tartary, such as Turks, Mongols and Manchus.
- (figurative, dated) A person of a keen, irritable temper.
- (figurative) A rough or violent event.
- One of the tributary rivers of the Kura, flowing through Artsakh and Azerbaijan
- A town in Azerbaijan located on this river
- Alternative spelling of Tatar [An agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.]
adjective
- Of or relating to the people or culture of Tartars.
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Examples of "tartar" in Sentences
- It was also known as vitriolic tartar.
- It was also known as vitriolic tartar .
- It was also known as 'vitriolic tartar'.
- In cooking it is known as cream of tartar.
- It is the potassium salt of tartaric acid.
- In cooking it is known as 'cream of tartar'.
- Lament for the Destruction of Hungary by the Tartars.
- Can confirm that the avacodo and salmon tartar is $5.50.
- a carbonated alcali, as mild salt of tartar, is mixed with
- His most trustworthy works deal with the history of the Tartars.
- Tartar control toothpastes can't remove tartar, but they can stave it off.
- The hamburger originated from a Mongolian tribe the Tartars in Central Asia.
- You see, cream of tartar, which is featured in many playdough recipes, is actually a leavening agent.
- The use of so-called tartar substitutes is not to be recommended, they give no better results than does sulphuric acid and are much dearer to use.
- Their french fries are ok, but sometimes a girl just needs some fried potato with her seafood … so I doctor them up with a dip in tartar sauce and a sprinkle of Old Bay seasoning.
- I leavened the dough with baking soda and cream of tartar in place of baking powder (although cream of tartar is often the main component in baking powder) because that is the traditional leavening combination for snickerdoodles.
- Vanilla is usually a good idea here, and while there is some cream of tartar, which is simply powdered acid that helps stabilize the egg-white foam and whiten the mixture, I also like to add some lemon juice for additional seasoning.
- He recognized, however, that cleansing of the teeth properly often became impossible by any scrubbing method, no matter what the dentifrice used, because of the presence of what we call tartar and what he called hardened limosity or limyness (_limosité endurcie_).
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