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tartan

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tartan.

Editorial note

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Quick take

To clothe (someone) in tartan (noun etymology 1, sense 1.2).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tartan gathered in one view.

verb

To clothe (someone) in tartan (noun etymology 1, sense 1.2).

verb

To apply a tartan pattern to (something).

noun

(countable) A pattern used on such fabric.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tartan.

verb

To clothe (someone) in tartan (noun etymology 1, sense 1.2).

verb

To apply a tartan pattern to (something).

noun

(countable) A pattern used on such fabric.

noun

(uncountable) Clothing made from this fabric.

Example sentences

1

Today, GCC and Clang and Pcc are free, and they do optimizations that Tartan Labs could only dream about.

2

The Royal Mile is a bloody awful tartan covered tourist trap despite having some fantastic buildings.

3

You can't buy bib-and-braces their size, or tartan flock shirts with a Malboro' man smokes pocket.

4

In the UK there’s regular Tories (Conservative Party), red Tories (Labour Party under Blair or Starmer), tartan Tories (SNP), etc.

5

Disappointingly (but predictably) it chose a tartan covered approximation of a Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe.

6

It's like saying Steve Jobs approved the new line of Ipods being Scottish tartan with the user interface outsourced to Microsift.

7

While I welcome the initative, I think this a case of sky hooks and tartan paint.

8

In times past, we'd have wrapped them in a tartan blanket and pushed them to the park in a wheelchair.

9

These are the same people as the famous tartan-wearing Tarim Mummies.

10

Today the 3M country club is still called Tartan Park.

11

He also worked for Tartan Laboratories [1] at one point.

12

All of the issues that rich countries have with their governments and privacy will certainly not apply to that mystical, magical, tartan land, whose politicians shit rainbows.

Quote examples

1

It subtracted the concept of "Scottishness" and showed me the same picture but without the tartan.

2

"new line of Ipods being Scottish tartan" That's just the customized Carnegie Mellon version.

3

If you want to know "how are tartans officially registered" you don't want to feed the entire 554kb wikipedia article on Tartan to your model, using 138,500 tokens, over 35% of gpt-5's context window, with significant monetary and latency cost.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tartan in a sentence?

Today, GCC and Clang and Pcc are free, and they do optimizations that Tartan Labs could only dream about.

What does tartan mean?

To clothe (someone) in tartan (noun etymology 1, sense 1.2).

What part of speech is tartan?

tartan is commonly used as verb, noun.