tare

English

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tare

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɛ(ə)ɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tear (“rip”)

Noun

tare (plural tares)

1. (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
2. Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
3. (rare, figuratively) 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.

Derived terms

• slender tare (Vicia parviflora)
• hairy tare (Vicia hirsuta)
• smooth tare (Vicia tetrasperma)

Translations

Etymology 2

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)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɛ(ə)ɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tear (“rip”)

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Tare weight

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tare (countable and uncountable, plural tares)

1. The empty weight of a container; unladen weight.
   • 1824, Stephen Pike, The Teachers' Assistant: Or a System of Practical Arithmetic, page 97:

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

Translations

See also

• cloff
• gross
• net
• tret

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, page 86:

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

   • 1959 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 610:

     Without question, I think, the exploit of "Jubilee" No. 45737 Atlas [...] was the finest [...], for the train was made up to eleven bogies taring the maximum of 350 tons for an engine of this class, notwithstanding which 7 min. was gained on schedule.

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.

Usage notes

• In measuring instruments other than balances, this process is usually called zeroing.

Synonyms

• (to set a zero value): zero

Translations

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɛɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tear (“rip”)

Verb

tare

1. (obsolete) simple past of tear

Etymology 4

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

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Tare sauce

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːɹeɪ/

Noun

tare (uncountable)

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

Etymology 5

Noun

tare (plural tares)

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

Further reading

• “tare”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “tare”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

References

Anagrams

• 'eart, Ater, Reta, aret, arte-, rate, tear, tera-

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tara or Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْح (ṭarḥ, “rubbish, refuse”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to reject, to deduct”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taʁ/

Noun

tare f (plural tares)

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

Derived terms

• tarer

Descendants

• → Romanian: tară

Further reading

• “tare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• âtre, rate, raté

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: tà‧re

Noun

tare f

1. plural of tara

Anagrams

• arte, atre, erta, etra, rate, retà, trae

Japanese

Romanization

tare

1. Rōmaji transcription of たれ

Middle English

Alternative forms

• thar, thare, taare, tar

Etymology

Either from an Old English *taru or borrowed from Middle Low German and/or Middle Dutch tarwe; in any case, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːr(ə)/

Noun

tare (plural tares or taren)

1. Vetch or tare; a member of the genus Vicia.
2. The seed of vetch, especially in reference to something worthless.
3. (rare) Lolium temulentum (poison darnel).

Descendants

• English: tare
• Scots: tare, teer, tere

References

• “tā̆r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-22.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• tarre (dialectal, Northern Norway)

Etymology

From Old Norse þari. Cognate with Faroese tari, Icelandic þari. Perhaps from a Proto-Germanic *þarhô, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to twist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²taːrə/
• Rhymes: -aːrə

Noun

tare m (definite singular taren, indefinite plural tarar, definite plural tarane)

1. kelp (seaweed of the order Laminariales)

Derived terms

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

tare

1. singular optative active of tarati (“to cross over”)

Portuguese

Verb

tare

1. inflection of tarar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited 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/

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• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: ta‧re

Adjective

tare m or f or n (plural tari)

1. (of a material) hard, tough, solid

   Pâinea este foarte tare.

   The bread is very hard.

2. (of a person, now regional or colloquial) strong
3. (of a voice) loud, strong, powerful
4. (of an alcoholic drink or drug) strong, hard
5. fierce, vehement, intense, vigorous
6. mighty, durable, lasting, sturdy
7. (colloquial, slightly dated) cool
   • 2019, Bianca E., La poli opuși‎, Editura Stylished, →ISBN, page 259:

     Dar nu vreau să fie iarna când mi-l cumpără pentru că trebuie să aștept prea mult să îl scot din casă. Are remorcă! E super tare!

     But I don't want it to be winter when I’m bought it because I have to wait too long to take it out of the house. It has a trailer! It's super cool!

Declension

Synonyms

• (hard): dur
• (strong): puternic

Derived terms

• întări

Adverb

tare

1. strongly
2. fast
3. (informal, often ironic) very
4. out loud

Related terms

• atare
• cutare

References

• tare in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Anagrams

• aret, arte, rate

Spanish

Verb

tare

1. inflection of tarar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

Phrase

tare

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of "ta det" (take it).

   Synonym: tat

   Tare lugnt! (Ta det lugnt!)

   Take it easy! (Calm down!)

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

tare

1. (intransitive) to crawl

Conjugation

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh