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tare¹

  • /tɛə/ UK
  • /tɛ(ə)ɹ/ US
  • /teː/ Australia
  • /teə/ Australia
  • /tiə/
  • /teə/ New Zealand
  • /tɜː(ɹ)/

Sounds like tear (“rip”) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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

noun tares

  1. rare A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa).
  2. Any of the tufted grasses of the genus Lolium; darnel.
  3. figuratively, rare A damaging weed growing in fields of grain. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

tare²

  • /tɛə/ UK
  • /tɛ(ə)ɹ/ US
  • /teː/ Australia
  • /teə/ Australia

Sounds like tear (“rip”) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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

noun tares

  1. countable, uncountable The empty weight of a container; unladen weight. What is the neat weight of 4 hogsheads of tobacco, each weighing 10cwt. 3qrs. 10lb. gross; — tare 100lb. per hdd.?

verb tares · taring · tared

  1. To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise. he is […] to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty.
  2. 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.

tare³

  • /tɛə/ UK
  • /tɛɹ/ US
  • /teː/ Australia
  • /teə/ Australia

Sounds like tear (“rip”) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)

verb

  1. obsolete, past simple past of tear

tare⁴

  • /ˈtɑːɹeɪ/

Where it comes from

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

noun

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

tare⁵

noun tares

  1. alternative Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).tara

Tare⁶

noun

  1. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter T.

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