tare

See also: taré, täre, Tāre, tarė, tarę, tåre, -tare, and таре

English

WOTD – 12 September 2008

Etymology 1

From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɛ(ə)ɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tear (“rip”)

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 terms

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

Translations

darnel — see darnel

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)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɛ(ə)ɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tear (“rip”)

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)
• Bulgarian: тара f (tara)
• Catalan: tara (ca) f
• 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)

• Hungarian: göngyölegsúly
• Indonesian: tara (id)
• Irish: táir f, meáchan glan m
• Italian: tara (it) f
• Japanese: 風袋 (ja) (fūtai)
• Portuguese: tara (pt)
• Romanian: dara (ro) f, tară (ro) f
• 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.

   • 1959 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 610:

     Without question, I think, the exploit of "Jubilee" No. 45737 Atlas [...] was the finest [...], for the train was made up to eleven bogies taring the maximum of 350 tons for an engine of this class, notwithstanding which 7 min. was gained on schedule.

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

• Dutch: tarreren (nl)
• Finnish: taarata (fi)
• French: tarer (fr)
• German: austarieren (de)

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

to set a zero value on an instrument

• Bulgarian: тарирам (tariram)
• Dutch: tarreren (nl)
• Finnish: taarata (fi)
• French: tarer (fr)
• German: nullen (de)

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

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɛɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tear (“rip”)

Verb

tare

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of tear

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Japanese 垂(た)れ (tare, “sauce, gravy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːɹeɪ/

Noun

tare (uncountable)

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

Further reading

• tare at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “tare” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• 'eart, Ater, Reta, aret, arte-, 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, “to reject, to deduct”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taʁ/

Noun

tare f (plural tares)

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

Derived terms

• tarer

Descendants

• → Romanian: tară

Further reading

• “tare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• âtre, rate, raté

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: tà‧re

Noun

tare f

1. plural of tara

Anagrams

• arte, atre, erta, etra, rate, retà, trae

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Japanese

Romanization

tare

1. Rōmaji transcription of たれ

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• thar, thare, taare

Etymology

Either from a Old English *taru or borrowed from Middle Low German and/or Middle Dutch tarwe; in any case, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːr(ə)/

Noun

tare (plural tares or taren)

1. Vetch or tare; a member of the genus Vicia.
2. The seed of vetch, especially in reference to something worthless.
3. (rare) Lolium temulentum (poison darnel).

Descendants

• English: tare
• Scots: tare, teer, tere

References

• “tā̆r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-22.

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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 or f or 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. (of an alcoholic drink or drug) strong, hard
5. fierce, vehement, intense, vigorous
6. mighty, durable, lasting, sturdy
7. (colloquial) cool
   • 2019 January 1, Bianca E., La poli opuşi‎^[1], Editura Stylished, →ISBN, page 259:

     Dar nu vreau să fie iarna când mi-l cumpără pentru că trebuie să aștept prea mult să îl scot din casă. Are remorcă! E super tare!

     But I don't want it to be winter when I get bought it because I have to wait too long to take it out of the house. It has a trailer! It's super 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
4. out loud

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.

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Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.ɾe]

Verb

tare

1. (intransitive) to crawl

Conjugation

Conjugation of tare
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totare	fotare	mitare
2nd	notare	nitare
3rd	Human	otarem, motaref	itare, yotare†
Non-human	itare	itare, yotare†
* m - masculine, f - feminine, † - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh