Tare

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.2 Translations 1.3.3 Verb 1.3.4 Translations 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 3 Romanian 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Adjective

English

Pronunciation

IPA: /tɛ:/

Etymology 1

Origin unknown.

Noun

Singular tare

Plural tares

1. 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))

   • 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.

Noun

Singular tare

Plural tares

1. The empty weight of a container.

Translations

• German: Tara n

Verb

Infinitive to tare

Third person singular tares

Simple past tared

Past participle tared

Present participle taring

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

Translations

• German: austarieren, nullen

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA: /taʀ/

Noun

tare f

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

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Romanian

Etymology

The etymology is not agreed upon (Paliga, 2002).

Adjective

tare

1. hard; tough
2. loudfr:tare

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