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# tartar

«tartar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a hard yellowish coating that builds up on teeth if they…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (tartar — uncountable; a Tartar, Tartars)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tartar is a hard yellowish coating that builds up on teeth if they are not cleaned well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#m1)

2) Tartar sauce (also tartare) is a creamy sauce with pickles, often eaten with fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#m2)

3) Cream of tartar is a white powder used in baking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#m3)

4) (history) A Tartar (more correctly Tatar) is a member of a Turkic people of Russia and Central Asia; Crimean Tatars are a people of Crimea in Ukraine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#m4)

5) (old-fashioned) A tartar is a fierce, bad-tempered person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In health lessons tartar comes with brushing, flossing and the dentist; in cooking, fish and chips with tartar sauce; in history and news about Crimea, the Tatars; in old stories, a strict, fierce person.

### examples

- The dentist scraped the tartar off my teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#x1)
- Brushing twice a day helps stop tartar building up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#x2)
- I like tartar sauce with my fish fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#x3)
- Add a pinch of cream of tartar to the egg whites. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#x4)
- Many Crimean Tatars were forced from their homes long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#x5)
- The old housekeeper was a real tartar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#x6)
- "Get me a surety," says the Tartar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/#x7)

### note

Uncountable for teeth and sauce. For the people, the modern, correct spelling is «Tatar»; «Tartar» is older and seen as less correct. Do not confuse with «tartan» (checked cloth) or «tart».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tartar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.