Tare

Quick meaning: Tare is a noun meaning Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.

Meaning

Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.

More Meanings

1. The empty weight of a container; unladen weight.
2. (sciences) To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.
3. Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.
4. (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
5. (rare, figuratively) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
6. (chiefly business and law) To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
7. (obsolete) simple past of tear

Example Sentences

But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

he is […] to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty.

What is the neat weight of 4 hogsheads of tobacco, each weighing 10cwt. 3qrs. 10lb. gross; — tare 100lb. per hdd.?

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.

Word Forms

• tares
• taring
• tared

Synonyms for tare

Depending on context, synonyms include zero, cheat, darnel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include darnel, cheat, vetch, weed, counterweight, overhead.

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