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tare

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What does tare mean?

Noun Plural: tares
tare - any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
		vetch any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants
		genus vicia, vicia widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs
tare - (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals
		counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, counterbalance, equalizer, balance a weight that balances another weight
tare - the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo
tare - an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods
tare - weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
		darnel, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum

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tare (Noun)
A vetch, or the seed of a vetch.
tare (Noun)
A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
tare (Noun)
The empty weight of a container.
tare (Verb)
To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
tare (Verb)
To set a zero value on an instrument usually a balance that discounts the starting point.

tare (imp.)
Tore.
tare (n.)
A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel.
tare (n.)
A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.
tare (n.)
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.
tare (v. t.)
To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).
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tare
tār, n. any one of several species of vetch: (B.) an unidentified weed, prob. darnel. [Prob. tear.]
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.]
tare
tār, obsolete, pa.p. of tear (2)

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