tare
pronunciation
How to pronounce tare in British English:
UK [teə(r)]
How to pronounce tare in American English:
US [ter]
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- Noun:
- any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- counterweight consisting of an empty container that is used as a counterbalance to obtain net weight
Word Origin
- tare (n.1)
- "kind of fodder plant, vetch," c. 1300, perhaps cognate with or from Middle Dutch tarwe "wheat," from a Germanic source perhaps related to Breton draok, Welsh drewg "darnel," Sanskrit durva "a kind of millet grass," Greek darata, daratos "bread," Lithuanian dirva "a wheat-field." Used in 2nd Wyclif version (1388) of Matt. xxiii:25 to render Greek zizania as a weed among corn (earlier darnel and cockle had been used in this place); hence figurative use for "something noxious sown among something good" (1711).
- tare (n.2)
- "allowable difference between gross and net weight, deduction made from gross weight of goods to account for approximate weight of packaging or container holding them," late 15c., from Middle French tare "wastage in goods, deficiency, imperfection" (15c.), from Italian tara, Medieval Latin tara, from Arabic tarah, literally "thing deducted or rejected, that which is thrown away," from taraha "to reject."
Example
- 1. May reduce tare , print records and make overload alarm .
- 2. It looks like it didn 't tare my clothes in the process at least .
- 3. Deducting the tare weight from the gross weight , we get the net weight .
- 4. Their heavy-duty design protects the tool from job wear and tare .
- 5. In addition to the gross , net and tare weights , the wording " made in the people 's republic of china " is also stenciled on the package .