What does tare mean?

Definitions for tare
tɛərtare

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tarenoun

    an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods

  2. tarenoun

    any of several weedy vetches grown for forage

  3. darnel, tare, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentumnoun

    weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

  4. tarenoun

    the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo

  5. tarenoun

    (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tarenoun

    Etymology: from teeren, Dutch, to consume. Stephen Skinner

    Through hatred of tares the corn in the field of God is plucked up. Richard Hooker, b. v.

    The liberal contributions such teachers met with served to invite more labourers, where their seed time was their harvest, and by sowing tares they reaped gold. Decay of Piety.

    My country neighbours begin not to think of being in general, which is being abstracted from all its inferior species, before they come to think of the fly in their sheep, or the tares in their corn. John Locke.

  2. TAREnoun

    A mercantile word denoting the weight of any thing containing a commodity; also the allowance made for it.

    Etymology: French.

  3. Tarepreterite of tear.

    The women beat their breasts, their cheeks they tare. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. tare

    Tare is the weight of a container or packaging that is subtracted from the gross weight to obtain the net weight of the contents. It can also refer to an allowance or deduction made for this weight in the process of weighing. In the commercial world, it impacts the overall cost and sale of goods, where prices often depend upon weight.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tare

    tore

  2. Tarenoun

    a weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel

  3. Tarenoun

    a name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder

  4. Tarenoun

    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

  5. Tareverb

    to ascertain or mark the tare of (goods)

  6. Tare

    of Tear

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tare

    tār, n. any one of several species of vetch: (B.) an unidentified weed, prob. darnel. [Prob. tear.]

  2. Tare

    tār, n. the weight of the vessel or package in which goods are contained: an allowance made for it, the remainder being the net weight. [Fr.,—Sp. tara—Ar. tarha, thrown away.]

  3. Tare

    tār, obsolete, pa.p. of tear (2).

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TARE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tare is ranked #112568 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Tare surname appeared 156 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tare.

    45.5% or 71 total occurrences were Asian.
    43.5% or 68 total occurrences were White.
    8.3% or 13 total occurrences were Black.

Anagrams for tare »

  1. tera

  2. tear

  3. rate

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tare in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tare in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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