What is "tare" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does tare mean in English? Meaning of tare definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "tare" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "tare": an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods

Noun

  • Meaning: an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods
  • Synonyms: tare
  • Hypernyms: adjustment allowance
  • Pronunciation in US: /tɛɚ/

    Pronunciation in UK: /tɛː/, /tɛə/

    Meaning of "tare": any of several weedy vetches grown for forage

    Noun

  • Meaning: any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
  • Synonyms: tare
  • Hyponyms: hairy tare hairy vetch vicia villosa
  • Hypernyms: vetch
  • Pronunciation in US: /tɛɚ/

    Pronunciation in UK: /tɛː/, /tɛə/

    Meaning of "tare": weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

    Noun

  • Meaning: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
  • Synonyms: bearded darnel cheat darnel lolium temulentum tare
  • Hypernyms: rye grass ryegrass
  • Pronunciation in US: /tɛɚ/

    Pronunciation in UK: /tɛː/, /tɛə/

    Meaning of "tare": the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo

    Noun

  • Meaning: the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo
  • Synonyms: tare
  • Hypernyms: weight
  • Pronunciation in US: /tɛɚ/

    Pronunciation in UK: /tɛː/, /tɛə/

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

    Noun

  • Meaning: (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals
  • Synonyms: tare
  • Hypernyms: balance counterbalance counterpoise counterweight equaliser equalizer
  • Pronunciation in US: /tɛɚ/

    Pronunciation in UK: /tɛː/, /tɛə/

  • Adjective: (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch.(rare) 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.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.
  • Synonyms:

    rive, pull, divide, injure, mangle, separate, damage, snatch, break, shred, split, slash, crack, grab, yank, rupture, sever, wrench, frazzle, rift, cleave, run, rend, gash, wrest, scratch, lacerate, pluck, incise, impair, slit, ribbon, seize, claw, mutilate, extract, fray, sunder, jigsaw, evulse, pull apart, shoot, rush, fling, chase, fly, run, gallop, career, spring, zoom, dart, dash, course, charge, race, bolt, lash, hurry, speed, boil,

    Antonyms:

    combine, unite, heal, mend, marry, sew, insert, wait, push, attach, join, agree, cure, fix, help, idle, walk, slow, wait, dawdle, delay, mend, sew, stay, halt, fix, idle,

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