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Definitions: Tarry |
TarryAdjective1. Having the characteristics of pitch or tar. Verb1. Be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?". 2. Leave slowly and hesitantly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tarry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: TarrySynonyms: pitchy (adj), resinous (adj), resiny (adj), footle (v), hang around (v), lallygag (v), linger (v), loaf (v), loiter (v), lollygag (v), lounge (v), lurk (v), mess about (v), mill about (v), mill around (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Diuturnity | Tarry; (be late); drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a lengthening chain; protract, prolong; spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen out; temporize; gain time, make time, talk against time. |
Expectation | Wait for, tarry for, lie in wait for, watch for, bargain for; keep a good lookout for, keep a sharp lookout for; await; stand at "attention," abide, bide one's time, watch. |
Lateness | Verb: be late; Adjective: tarry, wait, stay, bide, take time; dawdle; (be inactive); linger, loiter; bide one's time, take one's time; gain time; hang fire; stand over, lie over. |
Permanence | Verb: let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good. |
Quiescence | Remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop; (discontinue). |
Resin | Adjective: resiny, resinous; bituminous, pitchy, tarry; asphaltic, asphaltite. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tarry |
| English words defined with "tarry": bituminous coal ♦ melaena, melena ♦ Oil of cade ♦ soft coal ♦ Tarried, Tarrying, To pause upon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tarry": baikerinite ♦ ionite ♦ man, Measure One's Length on the Ground ♦ PYRIDINE OPERATOR, pyridine-recovery operator ♦ Sortes Virgilianae ♦ tarry taste. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Let's tarry not! (Warlock; writing credit: David Twohy) | |
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Books | |
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Mary Todd Lincoln | My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | All merchants shall have safe and secure exit from England, and entry to England, with the right to tarry there and to move about as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and right customs, quit from all evil tolls, except (in time of war) such merchants as are of the land at war with us. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Indeed, the Spirit did not stay for anything, but went straight on, as to the end just now desired, until besought by Scrooge to tarry for a moment. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Black tarry stools or blood in vomit. (references) | |
You see blood in your stool or have black, tarry stools. (references) | ||
When there is bleeding in the esophagus, stomach, or duodenum, the stool is usually black or tarry. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earh and Canada. When the world was young and Man was new, And everything was pleasant, Distinctions Nature never drew 'Mongst kings and priest and peasant. We're not that way at present, Save here in this Republic, where We have that old regime, For all are kings, however bare Their backs, howe'er extreme Their hunger. And, indeed, each has a voice To accept the tyrant of his party's choice. A citizen who would not vote, And, therefore, was detested, Was one day with a tarry coat (With feathers backed and breasted) By patriots invested. "It is your duty," cried the crowd, "Your ballot true to cast For the man o' your choice." He humbly bowed, And explained his wicked past: "That's what I very gladly would have done, Dear patriots, but he has never run." Apperton Duke |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tarry" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 37.50% of the time. "Tarry" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 37.5% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 28.13% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 28.13% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tarry" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tarry | Last name | 1,000 | 16,708 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "tarry": tarry for smb. ♦ tarry on the way ♦ tarry taste ♦ taste tarry. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tarry": tarry-hooded. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
black stool tarry | 16 |
stool tarry | 14 |
tarry | 6 |
tarry tate | 4 |
tarry brae golf course | 4 |
brae tarry | 3 |
black dog in serious stool tarry | 2 |
campground ho tarry | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tarry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Vonohem, Pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, undercut, wait, ween, whack), I Katrantë, Bituminoz. (various references) | |
Arabic | مقير, قطراني, قاري (continental), تلكأ (dawdle, dilly dally, loiter, muck about), توانى (dally, dawdle, delay, linger, loiter, lop, slacken), بقي (abide, be, bide, continue, endure, exist, remain, reside, rest, sit, stay, stick around, stop, subsist, sustain). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стоя (abide, keep, remain, sit, sit up, stand, stay, stick), чакам (abide, attend, await, cool one's heels, hang on, wait, wait about), Помайвам Се, Мая Се, Насмолен, Закъснявам, Накатранен, Бавя Се, Смолист. (various references) | |
Chinese | 耽" , 柏油. (various references) | |
Czech | Zdržovat Se (linger, reside), Nadehtovaný, Meškat, Dehtový, Asfaltovaný, Èekat. (various references) | |
Danish | tjæresmag (tarry taste), tjærefarvet afføring (tarry stool), tærbe (Atlantic prickly skate, tarry skate, thorny skate), lugt af branket olie (tarry-smelling), blodig afføring (blood in the stool, hematochezia, tarry stool). (various references) | |
Dutch | teersmaak (tarry taste), sterrog (Atlantic prickly skate, tarry skate, thorny skate), melaena (blood in the stool, hematochezia, melaena, melena, tarry stool), bitter-branderig (tarry-smelling). (various references) | |
Farsi | قیری , قیراندود, تاخیرکردن (Dally, Defer, Delay, Demurrage, Lag, Linger, Loiter, Retard), درنگ کردن (Let, Linger), درنگ (Halt, Pause). (various references) | |
Finnish | tervainen (tarry taste), viivähtää (stay, stop). (various references) | |
French | S'attarder, Rester, Goudronneux, Demeurer, Bitumeux. (various references) | |
German | Zögern (demur, dilatoriness, falter, hang back, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hold back, indecision, indecisions, lag, pause, procrastinate, procrastination, to demur, to hesitate, to pause, waver). (various references) | |
Greek | Αργοπορώ, ισσώδησ, ισσωμένοσ, αραμένω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ּש"ות, ּאחור, ּ"תמ"מ", ּ"תעכב, ּ"תבושש, ּ"שת"ות, ּ"עצל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Szurkos (pitching, pitchy), Kátrányos (pitching). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berayal (linger). (various references) | |
Italian | Tardare (be late, be long, delay, slow down), Rimanere (abide, be, be left, bleiben, keep, lie, remain, rest, stay, stay here, stay on, stay over), Indugiare (boggle, delay, linger), Incatramato, Catramato. (various references) | |
Manx | terragh, tannaghtyn (abide, abiding, bide, dwell, endure, hold up, lodge, remain, run on; continuance; remanent, stay, stop, survive), fuirraghtyn (stand by, stay, wait). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arrytay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Tardar (linger, loiter), Permanecer (abide, continue, dwell, endure, hold, keep, keep on, last, live abroad, persist, remain, stay, stay over), Ficar (be, beseem, bide, come, continue, go, grow, keep, lie, recline, remain, sojourn, stay, stay over, to get, to stay), Estar (be, go, stay, to be), Demorar-se (loiter, repose, stay), Demorar (dally, defer, delay, draggle, dweller, hold up, keep up, linger, procrastination, prolongation, protract, retard, slow, wait), Alcatroado. (various references) | |
Romanian | Temporiza (delay, temporize), Tãrãgãna (dally, drawl, drone, hang a leg, shuffle, temporize), Zãbovi (lag, linger, loiter), Uns Sau Acoperit Cu Catran, Sta (abide, be, keep, lie, live, remain, sit, stand, stay, stay over, stop), Murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, thick, unclean, untidy), Gudronat (pitched, resinous, tarred), Cantona (billet, quarter), Cãtrãnit (angry, black, downcast, embittered, furious, jaw-fallen, peevish, sulky, tar-colored, tar-coloured), Ca Gudronul, Bituminos (bituminous), Întârzia. (various references) | |
Russian | Медлить, Замешкаться, 'ымазанный "егтем. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zadržati se, odugovlačiti (be slow, drag out, procrastinate, protract, spin, stonewall, temporize), nakatranisan, boraviti (sojourn, stay), čekati (await, be waiting, be waiting for, bide, stand by, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Spanish | Quedarse Atrás (be detained, be kept in, drop behind, fall behind, get behind, hang back, lag, lag behind, linger, remain, stay on). (various references) | |
Swedish | Tjärig, Dröja (abide, be delayed, be late, be long, defer, delay, hesitate, linger, loiter, postpone, stay, stop, wait). (various references) | |
Thai | พักแรม (sojorn), อ้อยอิ่ง (linger), การพักแรม (sojorn), คอย (bide, stick about). (various references) | |
Turkish | Oyalanmak (amuse oneself, be amused, be pleased with, dally, delay, dilly dally, disport oneself, fool, fool about, fool around, footle, fribble, frivol, hang out, linger, loiter, mess around, monkey around, piddle, play around, Potter, potter about, potter at, procrastinate, stay, trifle, trifle with, waste time), Katranlı, Katran Gibi, Kalmak (abide, be left, be left over, bed, come to, continue, devolve, fail, flunk, keep, keep to, leave, put up, refuge, remain, rest with, room, sleep, stand, stay, stop, survive, wait), Beklemek (abide, anticipate, await, bargain for, bide, expect, hang about, hang around, hang on, have smth. in prospect, hold on, hope, look for, look forward to, mark time, stand by, stay, wait, wait for, watch). (various references) | |
Ukranian | Просмолений, Перебувати, Перебування, Затримувати, Затримка, 'имазаний "ьогтем. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quét hắc ín, giống nhựa, giống hắc ín quét nhựa, dính nhựa, dính hắc ín. (various references) | |
Welsh | tario, aros (abide, await, bide, come to a halt, halt, remain, stay, stop, wait). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Amblyraja radiata, demoror, Raja radiata. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ou twn egcronizontwn en oinoiV ou twn icneuontwn pou potoi ginontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nonne his qui morantur in vino et student calicibus epotandis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whether not to them, that dwellen in win, and studien to chalices to ben drunken vp? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 30 |
| Bulgarian | На ония, които се бавят около виното, Които отиват да вкусят подправено вино. |
| Cebuano | Mao kadtong magapabilin sa pag-inum-inum ug vino; Kadtong magapanggula aron sa pagpangita sa sinakot nga vino. |
| Chinese | 就 是 那 流 連 飲 ' 、 常 去 尋 找 調 ' ' 的 人 。 |
| Croatian | Onima što kasno sjede kod vina, koji su došli kušati vino zaèinjeno. |
| Danish | De, som sidder sent over Vinen, som kommer for at smage den stærke Drik. |
| Dutch | Bij degenen, die bij den wijn vertoeven; bij degenen, die komen om gemengden drank na te zoeken. |
| Finnish | Niillä, jotka viinin ääressä viipyvät, jotka tulevat makujuomaa maistelemaan. |
| French | Pour ceux qui s`attardent auprès du vin, Pour ceux qui vont déguster du vin mêlé. |
| German | Wo man beim Wein liegt und kommt, auszusaufen, was eingeschenkt ist. |
| Haitian Creole | Se moun k'ap bwè twòp gwòg, moun k'ap kouri dèyè tranpe. |
| Hungarian | A bornál mulatóknak, a kik mennek a jó bor kutatására. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | (23:29) |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pada orang yang leka dalam minum air anggur, dan yang berhimpun bersama-sama hendak mengecap-ngecap minuman yang keras. |
| Italian | Per quelli che si perdono dietro al vino e vanno a gustare vino puro. |
| Korean | 에 긴 자 에 게 있 혼 합 한 을 구 하 러 다 니 " 자 에 게 있 느 니 라 |
| Maori | Ko te hunga e noho roa ana ki te waina; ko te hunga e haere ana ki te rapu i te waina whakaranu. |
| Modern Greek | Εις τους εγχρονιζοντας εν τω οινω· εις εκεινους οιτινες διαγουσιν ανιχνευοντες οινοποσιας. |
| Norwegian | De som sitter lenge oppe ved vinen, de som kommer for å prøve den krydrede drikk. |
| Portuguese | Para os que se demoram perto do vinho, para os que andam buscando bebida misturada. |
| Rumanian | Ale celor ce kntkrzie la vin, wi se duc sq goleascq paharul cu vin amestecat. |
| Spanish | Para los que se detienen mucho sobre el vino; para los que se lo pasan probando el vino mezclado. |
| Swedish | Jo, där man länge sitter kvar vid vinet, där man samlas för att pröva kryddade drycker. >Jes. 5,11 f., 22. |
| Thai | คือบรร"าผู้ที่นั่งแช่อยู่กับเหล้าองุ่น บรร"าผู้ที่ไปแสวงหาเหล้าประสม |
| Ukrainian | У тих, хто запізню"ться над вином, у тих, хто приходить попробувати вина змішаного. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tarry": tarrying. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tarry": starry. (additional references) | |
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"Tarry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atory, atrry, darry, jarry, taery, tagry, tairy, tamry, tanry, taory, tarey, tari, tarmy, tarr, Tarra, tarray, tarri, tarrif, tarrn, tarty, tarvy, tary, taryn, tawry, terri, tery, tgry, tipry, tirr, tirrf, tirric, Tirry, tiry, torri, torrie, torry, trr, tryr, turr, turrr, tyry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tarry" (pronounced te"rē) |
| 4 | t e" r ē | Terry. |
| 3 | -e" r ē | airy, Barre, Berry, Bury, Canary, cherry, Clary, dairy, Derry, eyrie, fairy, ferry, Glengarry, hairy, Harry, Jerry, Kerry, marry, merry, nary, Parry, Perry, prairie, remarry, scary, sherry, skerry, unwary, vary, very, wary, wherry. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: arty, tray. | |
-2 letters: art, rat, ray, rya, tar, try, yar. | |
-3 letters: ar, at, ay, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: artery, martyr, rarity, rotary, starry. | |
+2 letters: carroty, gyrator, martyrs, martyry, mortary, oratory, parroty, partyer, phratry, portray, retiary, strayer, ternary, tracery, trinary, turbary. | |
+3 letters: arrantly, artistry, barratry, barretry, betrayer, carryout, contrary, errantly, errantry, gyrators, gyratory, harlotry, hydrator, juratory, literary, martyred, martyrly, moratory, mortuary, partyers, portrays, rabbitry, retrally, rogatory, rotatory, rurality, strayers, tarrying, teaberry, tertiary, treasury, triarchy, truantry, ultradry, varletry, warranty. | |
+4 letters: airworthy, apriority, arbitrary, artillery, barbarity, barometry, betrayers, carpentry, carryouts, cartulary, courtyard, crematory, daytrader, drysalter, ferryboat, garrulity, hortatory, hydrators, irreality, irritably, itinerary, libratory, marquetry, martyrdom, martyries, martyring, martyrize, migratory, parquetry, portrayal, portrayed, portrayer, precatory, predatory, prefatory, probatory, purgatory, quarterly, ratepayer, rehydrate, rostrally, secretary, strangury, temporary, termitary, tetrarchy, thyratron, tracheary, treachery, tributary, vibratory, worrywart. | |
+5 letters: aberrantly, adjuratory, anteriorly, arrhythmia, arrhythmic, arrogantly, arterially, astrometry, bardolatry, castratory, charactery, chartulary, clearstory, contrarily, courtyards, creaturely, cryptogram, daytraders, dehydrator, derogatory, dramaturgy, drysalters, drysaltery, dysarthria, erythremia, expiratory, ferryboats, fragrantly, fraternity, fritillary, gravimetry, hereditary, hyperalert, interlayer, intermarry, interparty, laboratory, levorotary, literarily, martyrdoms, martyrized, martyrizes, matriarchy, patriarchy, portrayals, portrayers, portraying, procaryote, prokaryote, quaternary, radiometry, ratepayers, refractory, regularity, regulatory, rehydrated, rehydrates, revelatory, roadworthy, rubythroat, storyboard, strawberry, thyratrons, tracklayer, trajectory, transitory, trierarchy, tyrannizer, unliterary, veterinary, worrywarts, yardmaster, yesteryear. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 72 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .-. .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01110010 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a r r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0072 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5467848491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Bible Trace | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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