Tare

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 [gcide]:

  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 [gcide]:

  Tare \Tare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Taring}.]
     To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tare \Tare\, obs. imp. of {Tear}.
     Tore.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tare
       n 1: any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
       2: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other
          cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
          [syn: {darnel}, {bearded darnel}, {cheat}, {Lolium
          temulentum}]
       3: counterweight consisting of an empty container that is used
          as a counterbalance to obtain net weight

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.)