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Webster 1913 Edition

Tare

Tare

,
obs.
imp.
of
Tear
.
Tore.

Tare

,
Noun.
[Cf. Prov. E.
tare
brisk, eager, OE.
tarefitch
the wild vetch.]
1.
A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; – alleged by modern naturalists to be the
Lolium temulentum
, or darnel.
Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it
tares
?
Matt. xiii. 27.
The “darnel” is said to be the
tares
of Scripture, and is the only deleterious species belonging to the whole order.
Baird.
2.
(Bot.)
A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus
Vicia
; especially, the
Vicia sativa
, sometimes grown for fodder.

Tare

,
Noun.
[F.
tare
; cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., & It.
tara
; all fr. Ar.
tarah
thrown away, removed, fr.
taraha
to reject, remove.]
(Com.)
Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.

Tare

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tared
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Taring
.]
To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).

Webster 1828 Edition

Tare

TARE

,
Noun.
[I know not the origin of this word. See the next word.]
1.
A weed that grows among corn.
Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matt.13.
2.
In agriculture, a plant of the vetch kind, of which there are two sorts, the purple flowered spring or summer tare, and the purple-flowered wild or winter tare. It is much cultivated in England for fodder.

TARE

, n.
1.
In commerce, deficiency in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag or other thing containing the commodity, and which is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity from the weight or quantity of a commodity sold in a cask, chest, bag or the like, which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, chest or bag; or the abatement may be on the price of the commodity sold. When the tare is deducted, the remainder is called the net or neat weight.

TARE

,
Verb.
T.
To ascertain or mark the amount of tare.

TARE

, old pret. of tear. WE now use tore.

Definition 2024

tare

tare

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

English

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 طَرْحَة ‎(ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ ‎(ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).[1]

Noun

tare ‎(plural tares)

  1. The empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight.
Translations
See also

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

Etymology 3

Verb

tare

  1. (obsolete) simple past tense of tear

Etymology 4

Japanese 垂れ

Noun

tare ‎(uncountable)

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

References

  1. ↑ “tare” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tara or Italian tara, from 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)

Anagrams

Italian

Noun

tare f

  1. plural of tara

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

tare

  1. rōmaji reading of たれ

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, f, 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

Synonyms

Derived terms

Adverb

tare

  1. strongly
  2. quickly and well
  3. very

Related terms

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.

Etymology

From Middle English tare ‎(“vetch”), from Old English *taru, 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”)).

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) IPA(key): /teː/, /teə/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /tɛː/, /tɛə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /tɛɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
  • Homophones: tear

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