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English
wikipedia|dab=tare
Pronunciation
IPA|/tÉ›:/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɛə(r)|-ɛə(r)

Etymology 1
Origin unknown.

Noun
en-noun

1. rare A vetch, or the seed of a vetch.
2. rare 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#French|tare.
wikipedia|tare weight
Noun
en-noun

1. The empty weight of a container.

Translations
rfc-level|Translations at L3+ (AutoFormat? would have corrected level of Translations)
Finnish: taara
German: Tara n
Russian: тара n
Spanish: tara f

Verb
en-verb|tar|ing

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 ARchar|طرح (ŧarħ) ‘rubbish, refuse’, from ARchar|طرح (ŧaraħa) ‘reject, deduct’.

Pronunciation
IPA|/taʀ/

Noun
tare f

1. archaic|lang=fr deficiency
2. defect, vice, flaw
3. tare#English|tare

Japanese

Adjective
tare

1. lazy|Lazy, droopy

Romanian

Etymology
L.|ro talem

Pronunciation
IPA|['ta.re]|lang=ro

Adjective
ro-adj|2

1. context|of a material hard, tough, solid
2. context|of a person strong
3. context|of a voice loud, strong
4. colloquial|lang=ro cool

Declension
ro-adj-2-e|tar

Adverb
ro-adv

1. strongly
2. quickly and well
3. very

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