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Tare

//tɛə// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa) rare
  2. 2
    The empty weight of a container; unladen weight. countable, uncountable

    "What is the neat weight of 4 hogsheads of tobacco, each weighing 10cwt. 3qrs. 10lb. gross; — tare 100lb. per hdd.?"

  3. 3
    Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce. uncountable
  4. 4
    Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”). alt-of, alternative
  5. 5
    radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter T.
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  1. 6
    (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals wordnet
  2. 7
    Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
  3. 8
    the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo wordnet
  4. 9
    A damaging weed growing in fields of grain. figuratively, rare

    "But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way."

  5. 10
    weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous wordnet
  6. 11
    any of several weedy vetches grown for forage wordnet
  7. 12
    an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.

    "he is […] to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty."

  2. 2
    simple past of tear form-of, obsolete, past
  3. 3
    To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.

    "2003, Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math, CSHL Press, p. 63, Spectrometers, for example, must be zeroed before each reading; balances must be tared before each weighing."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French tare, from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle French tare, from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Japanese 垂(た)れ (tare, “sauce, gravy”).

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