tare

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

English

WOTD – 12 September 2008

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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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 terms

• slender tare ()
• hairy tare ()
• smooth tare ()

Etymology 2

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French tare, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian tara, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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)
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• 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

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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: tarar (es)
• Swedish: tarera (sv)

to set a zero value on an instrument

• Finnish: taarata
• French: tarer (fr)
• German: nullen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: tarar (es)
• Swedish: tarera (sv)

Etymology 3

Verb

tare

1. (obsolete) simple past of tear

Etymology 4

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese 垂れ.

Noun

tare (uncountable)

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

References

• “tare”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “tare”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

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

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French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tara or Italian tara, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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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Middle English

Alternative forms

• thar, thare, taare

Etymology

From Old English *taru, from Proto-Germanic *tarwō.

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 referring 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. 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.