tare

See also: tarė and tåre

English

WOTD – 12 September 2008

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɛː/, /tɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /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.
   • 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.

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 (liàngpízhòng)

• Dutch: tarra
• Estonian: taara
• Finnish: taara (fi), tyhjäpaino (fi)
• French: tare (fr) f

• German: Tara (de) n
• Italian: tara (it) f
• Portuguese: tara (pt)
• Russian: тара (ru) f (tára)
• Serbo-Croatian: тара f, tara 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
• French: tarer (fr)

• German: austarieren (de)
• Spanish: tarar

to set a zero value on an instrument

• Finnish: taarata
• French: tarer (fr)

• German: nullen (de)
• Spanish: tarar

Etymology 3

Verb

tare

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of tear

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^(key): /taʀ/

Noun

tare f (plural tares)

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

Anagrams

• âtre, rate, raté

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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

Romanization

tare

1. rōmaji reading 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". Cf. also atare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [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

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.