tare

See also: taré, Tāre, tarė, tåre, and -tare

English

WOTD – 12 September 2008

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɛː/, /tɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
• Homophones: tear

Etymology 1

From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-Germanic *tarwō (compare Dutch tarwe (“wheat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dŕ̥Hweh₂ (compare Lithuanian dirvà (“field”), Russian дере́вня (derévnja, “village, thorp”), Ancient Greek δάρατος (dáratos, “bread”), Sanskrit दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “panic grass, millet”), Welsh drewg (“darnel”)).

Noun

tare (plural tares)

1. (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
2. Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
3. (rare, figuratively) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
   • Matthew 13:25 (KJV)

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

   • 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:

     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.

Derived

• slender tare (Vicia parviflora)
• hairy tare (Vicia hirsuta)
• smooth tare (Vicia tetrasperma)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tare (plural tares)

1. The empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight.

Translations

the empty weight of a container

• Armenian: աբրա (hy) (abra), տարա (hy) (tara)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 量皮重 (liàngpízhòng)

• Dutch: tarra (nl)
• Estonian: taara
• Finnish: taara (fi), tyhjäpaino (fi)
• French: tare (fr) f
• German: Tara (de) f
• Greek: απόβαρο (el) n (apóvaro)

• Irish: táir f, meáchan glan m
• Italian: tara (it) f
• Portuguese: tara (pt)
• Russian: та́ра (ru) f (tára)
• Serbo-Croatian: тара f, tara (sh) f
• Spanish: tara (es) f
• Swedish: tara (sv) c
• Welsh: pwysau gweili m pl

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.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• (to set a zero value): zero

Translations

to take into account the weight of a container

• Finnish: taarata
• French: tarer (fr)
• German: austarieren (de)

• Spanish: tarar (es)
• Swedish: tarera (sv)

to set a zero value on an instrument

• Finnish: taarata
• French: tarer (fr)
• German: nullen (de)

• Spanish: tarar (es)
• Swedish: tarera (sv)

Etymology 3

Verb

tare

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of tear

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Japanese 垂れ.

Noun

tare (uncountable)

1. Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.

References

• tare at OneLook Dictionary Search
• tare in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• 'eart, Ater, Reta, aret, rate, tear, tera-

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French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tara or Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْح‎ (ṭarḥ, “rubbish, refuse”), from طَرَحَ‎ (ṭaraḥa, “reject, deduct”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taʁ/

Noun

tare f (plural tares)

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

Derived terms

• tarer

Further reading

• “tare” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• âtre, rate, raté

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -are

Noun

tare f

1. plural of tara

Anagrams

• arte, atre, erta, etra, rate, trae

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Japanese

Romanization

tare

1. Rōmaji transcription of たれ

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tālem, accusative of tālis. The sense of "distinguished" or "so great/excellent" in Latin probably eventually became "strong" in earlier Romanian, finally taking on the more literal meaning of "hard" or "tough". Compare also atare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.re]

Adjective

tare m, f, n (plural tari)

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

Synonyms

• (hard): dur
• (strong): puternic

Derived terms

• întări

Adverb

tare

1. strongly
2. quickly and well
3. very

Related terms

• atare
• cutare

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Spanish

Verb

tare

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tarar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tarar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tarar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tarar.