different between tare vs weight

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /te?/, /te?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??/, /t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Homophones: tear

Etymology 1

From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

Noun

tare (plural tares)

1. (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
2. Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
3. (rare, figuratively) 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.

Derived terms

• slender tare (Vicia parviflora)
• hairy tare (Vicia hirsuta)
• smooth tare (Vicia tetrasperma)

Translations

Etymology 2

Middle French tare, from Italian tara, from Arabic ???????? (?ar?a, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of ??????? (?ara?a, “to throw (away)”).

Noun

tare (plural tares)

1. The empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight.

Translations

See also

• cloff
• gross
• net
• tret

Verb

tare (third-person singular simple present tares, present participle taring, simple past and past participle tared)

1. (chiefly business and law) To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
   • 1886, Records of the History, Laws, Regulations, and Statistics of the Tobacco Trade of the United Kingdom, p. 86,

     he is […] to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty.

2. (sciences) To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.
   • 2003, Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math, CSHL Press, p. 63,

     Spectrometers, for example, must be zeroed before each reading; balances must be tared before each weighing.

Usage notes

• In measuring instruments other than balances, this process is usually called zeroing.

Synonyms

• (to set a zero value): zero

Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

tare

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of tear

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Japanese ??.

Noun

tare (uncountable)

1. Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.

References

• tare at OneLook Dictionary Search
• tare in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• 'eart, Ater, Reta, aret, arte-, rate, tear, tera-

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tara or Italian tara, from Arabic ?????? (?ar?, “rubbish, refuse”), from ??????? (?ara?a, “to reject, to deduct”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?/

Noun

tare f (plural tares)

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

Derived terms

• tarer

Further reading

• “tare” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• âtre, rate, raté

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -are

Noun

tare f

1. plural of tara

Anagrams

• arte, atre, erta, etra, rate, trae

Japanese

Romanization

tare

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle English

Alternative forms

• thar, thare, taare

Etymology

From Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?r(?)/

Noun

tare (plural tares or taren)

1. Vetch or tare; a member of the genus Vicia.
2. The seed of vetch, especially referring to something worthless.
3. (rare) Lolium temulentum (poison darnel).

Descendants

• English: tare
• Scots: tare, teer, tere

References

• “t??r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-22.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin t?lem, accusative of t?lis. The sense of "distinguished" or "so great / excellent" in Latin probably eventually became "strong" in earlier Romanian, finally taking on the more literal meaning of "hard" or "tough". Compare also atare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta.re]

Adjective

tare m or f or n (plural tari)

1. (of a material) hard, tough, solid

   Pâinea este foarte tare.

   The bread is very hard.

2. (of a person) strong
3. (of a voice) loud, strong, powerful
4. (of an alcoholic drink) strong, hard
5. fierce, vehement, intense, vigorous
6. mighty, durable, lasting, sturdy
7. (colloquial) cool

Declension

Synonyms

• (hard): dur
• (strong): puternic

Derived terms

• înt?ri

Adverb

tare

1. strongly
2. quickly and well
3. very
4. out loud

Related terms

• atare
• cutare

Spanish

Verb

tare

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tarar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tarar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tarar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tarar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English weight, wei?te, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ?ewiht (“weight”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz ("weight"; compare *wegan? (“to move”)), from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (“to move; pull; draw; drive”).

Cognate with Scots wecht, weicht (“weight”), Saterland Frisian Wächte (“scale”) and Gewicht (“weight”), West Frisian gewicht (“weight”), Dutch gewicht (“weight”), German Low German Wicht, Gewicht (“weight”) and German Gewicht (“weight”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?t, IPA^(key): /we?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Homophone: wait

Noun

weight (countable and uncountable, plural weights)

1. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
2. An object used to make something heavier.
3. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
4. Importance or influence.
   • 1907 Alonso de Espinosa, Hakluyt Society & Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Guanches of Tenerife: the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, p116

     Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate.

   • 1945 Mikia Pezas, The price of liberty, I. Washburn, Inc., p11

     "You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said.

5. (weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.

6. (lubricants) viscosity rating.
8. (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
9. (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
10. (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
11. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
12. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
13. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
14. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
15. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
16. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
17. Pressure; burden.
18. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
19. (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.

20. (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
    • 2002, Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, Nigel South, Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement (page 5)

      [I was] doing a weight [1 lb. at that time] a week, sometimes more, sometimes less.
21. (criminal slang, dated) Money.
    • 1974, Martin R. Haskell, ?Lewis Yablonsky, Crime and Delinquency (page 96)

      No matter how much money he makes, he is still a soldier, but he has the weight.

Alternative forms

• wt. (abbreviation)

Derived terms

Related terms

• weigh

Coordinate terms

• mass
• inertial mass
• gravitational mass

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (ueito)
• ? Burmese: ???? (wit)

Translations

Verb

weight (third-person singular simple present weights, present participle weighting, simple past and past participle weighted)

1. (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
   1. (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
2. (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
4. (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
5. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
6. (transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.

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