tare

See also tarė, and tåre

English

WOTD - 12 September 2008    

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (Australia) IPA: /teː/, /teə/
• (UK) IPA: /tɛː/, /tɛə/
• (US) IPA: /tɛɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
• Homophones: tear

Etymology 1

Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Proto-Germanic *tarwō (cf. Dutch tarwe (“wheat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥Hu̯ā (cf. Welsh drewg (“darnel”), Lithuanian dirvà (“field”), Ancient Greek δάρατος (dáratos, “bread”), Sanskrit दूर्वा (dūrvā, “panic grass, millet”)).

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

Wikipedia tare (plural tares)

1. The empty weight of a container.

Translations

the empty weight of a container

Chinese: Mandarin: 量皮重 (cmn) (liàngpízhòng) Croatian: tara (hr) f. Dutch: tarra (nl) Estonian: taara (et) Finnish: taara (fi), tyhjäpaino (fi)

French: tare (fr) f. German: Tara (de) n. Portuguese: tara (pt) Russian: тара (ru) f. Spanish: tara (es) f. Swedish: tara (sv) c.

See also

• cloff
• gross
• net
• tret

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• (to set a zero value): zero

Usage notes

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

Translations

to take into account the weight of a container

Finnish: taarata (fi) French: tarer (fr)

German: austarieren (de)

to set a zero value on an instrument

Finnish: taarata (fi) French: tarer (fr)

German: nullen (de)

Anagrams

• rate
• tear

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /taʀ/

Noun

tare f. (plural tares)

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

Anagrams

• âtre
• rate, raté, râte, râté

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Italian

Noun

tare f.

1. Plural form of tara.

Anagrams

• arte, atre, erta, etra, rate, trae

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Japanese

Noun

tare (hiragana たれ)

1. 垂れ: sauce, usually for meat; gravy
2. 垂れ: something hanging

Pronoun

tare (hiragana たれ)

1. 誰: who

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tālem, accusative of tālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈta.re]

Adjective

tare ^{2 nom/acc forms}

1. (of a material) hard, tough, solid

   Pâinea este foarte tare.

   The bread is very hard.

2. (of a person) strong
3. (of a voice) loud, strong, powerful
4. fierce, vehement, intense, vigorous
5. mighty, durable, lasting, sturdy
6. (colloquial) cool

Declension

declension of tare

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	tare		tare	tari	tari
	definite	tarele		tarea	tarii	tarile
genitive/ dative	indefinite	tare		tari	tari	tari
	definite	tarelui		tarii	tarilor	tarilor

Derived terms

• întări

Adverb

tare

1. strongly
2. quickly and well
3. very