tare
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
tare
n 1: an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order
to determine the net weight of the goods
2: any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
3: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other
cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous [syn:
{darnel}, {tare}, {bearded darnel}, {cheat}, {Lolium
temulentum}]
4: the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft
without its fuel or cargo
5: (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical
analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances
the weight of the container holding chemicals
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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.)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "tare":
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
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