Definition for: tare

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɛ:/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)

Etymology 1

Origin unknown.

Noun

tare ( plural tares )

1. vetch, or the seed of a vetch
2. A damaging weed growing in fields of grain (with reference to Matthew 13:25: "But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way." The King James Version (Authorized))

   • 1985 : 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. — John Fowles, A Maggot

Etymology 2

French tare .

Noun

tare ( plural tares )

1. The empty weight of a container.

Translations

• German: Tara n

Verb

to tare ( third-person singular simple present tares , present participle taring , simple past tared , past participle tared )

1. to allow for the tare; to set a counter or meter to a valid zero (usually weight) value, discounting the weight of the empty container

Translations

• German: austarieren, nullen

French

Etymology

From mediaeval Latin tara , from Arabic طرح (ŧarħ) ‘rubbish, refuse’, from طرح (ŧaraħa) ‘reject, deduct’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /taʀ/

Noun

tare f

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

Romanian

Etymology

Substratum word

Adjective

tare

1. hard; tough
2. loud

Other Translations for "tare"

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Sign Language Spelling
Morse Code		- .- .-. .
Binary		1110100 1100001 1110010 1100101
Hex		74617265
Pig Latin		aretay

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