TARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tare mean? 

• TARE (noun)
  The noun TARE has 5 senses:

1. an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods

2. any of several weedy vetches grown for forage

3. weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

4. the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo

5. (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals

  Familiarity information: TARE used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("tare" is a kind of...):

adjustment; allowance (an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tare" is a kind of...):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tare"):

hairy tare; hairy vetch; Vicia villosa (European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops)

Holonyms ("tare" is a member of...):

genus Vicia; Vicia (widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bearded darnel; cheat; darnel; Lolium temulentum; tare

Hypernyms ("tare" is a kind of...):

rye grass; ryegrass (any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("tare" is a kind of...):

weight (the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tare" is a kind of...):

balance; counterbalance; counterpoise; counterweight; equaliser; equalizer (a weight that balances another weight)

Domain category:

chemical analysis; qualitative analysis (the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements)

 Context examples 

"I hope there will be more wheat and fewer tares every year," said Amy softly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But mothers, sisters, and friends may help to make the crop a small one, and keep many tares from spoiling the harvest, by believing, and showing that they believe, in the possibility of loyalty to the virtues which make men manliest in good women's eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)