different between tartar vs debridement

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: tär?-t?r, IPA^(key): /?t??.t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tär?-t?r, IPA^(key): /?t??.t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)
• Hyphenation: tar?tar
• Homophone: tarter

Etymology 1

From Old French tartre, from Medieval Latin tartarum, from Byzantine Greek ???????? (tártaron), said to be from Arabic ????????? (durdiyy), though it is already found in Pelagonius’s Ars veterinaria 46 in the adjective tartar?lis, if the reading is correct.

Noun

tartar (countable and uncountable, plural tartars)

1. A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate - a source of cream of tartar.
2. A hard yellow deposit on the teeth.

Derived terms

• cream of tartar
• tartarous

Translations

Etymology 2

From figurative use of Tartar.

Noun

tartar (plural tartars)

1. (dated) A fearsome or angrily violent person.
   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, New York: Vintage, 1972, Chapter 3, p. 28,^[1]

     Mrs. Begg said she liked Mrs. Dain, who was a sensible woman and a first-rate housewife, but that Gabrielle was a tartar.

Derived terms

• tartar sauce

Finnish

Adjective

tartar (not comparable)

1. tartare (chopped fine and served raw)

   tartar-pihvi

   steak tartare

Declension

Not inflected; used only as modifier.

Derived terms

• tartar-kastike

Noun

tartar

1. A dish prepared with finely chopped, raw ingredients; in English the names of these dishes are formed with the adjective "tartare".

   Alkupalaksi tarjottiin lohitartaria.

   A salmon tartare was served as appetizer.

Declension

Anagrams

• tarrat

Italian

Noun

tartar f (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of tartare

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French Tartare

Adjective

tartar m (feminine singular tartare, masculine plural tartars, feminine plural tartares)

1. Tartar (of or relating to any of several Turkic groups)

Descendants

• French: tartare m or f

References

• tartare on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old Irish

Verb

·tartar

1. passive singular present subjunctive perfective prototonic of do·beir

Mutation

Romanian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic ???????? (tar?tar?), from Ancient Greek ???????? (Tártaros). Doublet of Tartarus.

Noun

tartar n (plural tartaruri)

1. hell

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From French (bifteck) tartare.

Noun

tartar m (plural tartares)

1. tartar

English

Alternative forms

• débridement

Etymology

Borrowed from French débridement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?b?i?d?m??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??b?i?dm?nt/

Noun

debridement (plural debridements)

1. (medicine) The removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue.
2. (dentistry) The removal of the dental tartar that has accumulated over teeth, typically done using hand tools and ultrasound instruments.