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English

Pronunciation


Etymology 1

Origin unknown.

Noun

  1. A 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))
  3. :* 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#French|tare, from Arabic (ṭarḥa), ‘that which is thrown away,’ from (ṭáraḥa), ‘to throw (away)’.

Noun

  1. The empty weight of a container.


Translations
  • Dutch: tarra
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t|fr|tare|f}}
See also


Verb

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


Translations


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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /taʀ/


Noun

tare

  1. deficiency
  2. defect, vice, flaw
  3. tare#English|tare


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Japanese

Adjective

tare

  1. lazy|Lazy, droopy


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Romanian

Etymology

talem

Pronunciation

IPA: ['ta.re]

Adjective

  1. In the Context of hard, tough, solid
  2. In the Context of strong
  3. In the Context of loud, strong
  4. cool


Declension

Adverb

  1. strongly
  2. quickly and well
  3. very


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tear \Tear\ (t[^a]r), v. t. [imp. Tore (t[=o]r), ((Obs.
Tare) (t[^a]r); p. p. Torn (t[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tearing.] [OE. teren, AS. teran; akin to OS. farterian to
destroy, D. teren to consume, G. zerren to pull, to tear,
zehren to consume, Icel. t>ae/ra, Goth. gata['i]ran to
destroy, Lith. dirti to flay, Russ. drate to pull, to tear,
Gr. de`rein to flay, Skr. dar to burst. [root]63. Cf. Darn,
Epidermis, Tarre, Tirade.]
1. To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend;
to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear
the skin or flesh.
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Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. --Shak.
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2. Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend;
as, a party or government torn by factions.
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3. To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to
sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
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The hand of fate
Hath torn thee from me. --Addison.
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4. To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
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5. To move violently; to agitate. "Once I loved torn ocean's
roar." --Byron.
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To tear a cat, to rant violently; to rave; -- especially
applied to theatrical ranting. [Obs.] --Shak.

To tear down, to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down.


To tear off, to pull off by violence; to strip.

To tear out, to pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear
out the eyes.

To tear up, to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by
violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the
foundation of government or order.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tare \Tare\, n. [F. tare; cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., & It. tara; all fr.
Ar. tarah thrown away, removed, fr. taraha to reject,
remove.] (Com.)
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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tare \Tare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tared; p. pr. & vb. n.
Taring.]
To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tare \Tare\, obs. imp. of Tear.
Tore.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tare \Tare\, n. [Cf. Prov. E. tare brisk, eager, OE. tarefitch
the wild vetch.]
1. A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged
by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or
darnel.
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Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From
whence then hath it tares? --Matt. xiii.
27.
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The "darnel" is said to be the tares of Scripture,
and is the only deleterious species belonging to the
whole order. --Baird.
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2. (Bot.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous
herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the {Vicia
sativa}, sometimes grown for fodder.
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WordNet tare
n 1: any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
2: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other
cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
[syn: darnel, bearded darnel, cheat, {Lolium
temulentum}]
3: counterweight consisting of an empty container that is used
as a counterbalance to obtain net weight
Moby Dictionary
abatement , agio , allowance , bank discount , bones , breakage ,
cash discount , chaff , chain discount , charge-off , concession , culm ,
cut , deadwood , deduction , depreciation , discount , dishwater , draff ,
drawback , dregs , dust , filings , garbage , gash , hogwash , husks ,
kickback , leavings , lees , offal , offscourings , orts , parings ,
penalty , penalty clause , percentage , potsherds , premium ,
price reduction , price-cut , rags , raspings , rebate , rebatement ,
reduction , refund , refuse , rollback , salvage , scourings ,
scrap iron , scraps , scum , setoff , shards , shavings , slack , slag ,
slop , slops , stubble , sweepings , swill , tares , time discount ,
trade discount , tret , underselling , wastage , waste , waste matter ,
wastepaper , weeds , write-off


TARE, weights. An allowance in the purchase and sale of merchandise, for the weight of the box, bag, or cask, or other thing, in which the goods are packed. It is also an allowance made for tiny defect, waste, or diminution in the weight, quality or quantity of goods. It differs from tret. (q.v.)
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