tare

See also: tarė and tåre

§English

WOTD – 12 September 2008

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§Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
• Homophones: tear

§Etymology 1

Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Proto-Germanic *tarwō (compare Dutch tarwe (“wheat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥Hu̯ā (compare 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) f
• Italian: tara (it) f
• Portuguese: tara (pt)
• Russian: тара (ru) f (tára)
• Serbo-Croatian: тара f, tara (sh) 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

§Etymology 4

Japanese 垂れ

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§Noun

tare (uncountable)

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

§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

§External links

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

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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". Compare 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.