tare

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.3.1.2 See also 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Synonyms 1.3.2.2 Usage notes 1.3.2.3 Translations 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 3 Italian 3.1 Noun 4 Japanese 4.1 Adjective 5 Romanian 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Pronunciation 5.3 Adjective 5.3.1 Declension 5.4 Adverb

[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /tɛ:/, /tɛə/
• (US) IPA: /tɛɹ/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
• Homophones: tear

[edit] Etymology 1

Origin unknown.

[edit] Noun

tare (plural tares)

1. (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch.
2. (rare) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain (with reference to Matthew 13:25: "But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way." The King James Version (Authorized))

   • 1985, I saw as I thought an uncle and guardian who has led a sober, industrious and Christian life and finds himself obliged to look on the tares of folly in his own close kin. — John Fowles, A Maggot

[edit] Etymology 2

Middle French tare, ultimately from Arabic طرحة (ṭarḥa), “‘that which is thrown away’”), a derivative of طرح (ṭáraḥa), “‘to throw (away)’”).

[edit] Noun

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tare (plural tares)

1. The empty weight of a container.

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• cloff
• gross
• net
• tret

[edit] Verb

to tare (third-person singular simple present tares, present participle taring, simple past and past participle tared)

1. (chiefly business and law) To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
   • 1886, Records of the History, Laws, Regulations, and Statistics of the Tobacco Trade of the United Kingdom, p. 86,

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

2. (sciences) 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.

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• (to set a zero value): zero

[edit] Usage notes

• In measuring instruments other than balances, this process is usually called zeroing.

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Mediaeval Latin tara, from Arabic طرح (ŧarħ), “‘rubbish, refuse’”), from طرح (ŧaraħa), “‘reject, deduct’”).

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• IPA: /taʀ/

[edit] Noun

tare f. (plural tares)

1. (archaic) deficiency
2. defect, vice, flaw
3. tare

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[edit] Noun

tare f.

1. Plural form of tara.

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tare

1. Lazy, droopy

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Etymology

Latin talem

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• IPA: ['ta.re]

[edit] Adjective

tare ^{2 nom/acc forms}

1. (of a material) hard, tough, solid
2. (of a person) strong
3. (of a voice) loud, strong
4. (colloquial) cool

[edit] Declension

[edit] Adverb

tare

1. strongly
2. quickly and well
3. very