tare

名词 n. 动词 v.
/tɛə/    /tɛ(ə)ɹ/|/teː/|/teə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa) rare
  2. The empty weight of a container; unladen weight. countable,uncountable
    — What is the neat weight of 4 hogsheads of tobacco, each weighing 10cwt. 3qrs. 10lb. gross; — tare 100lb. per hdd.?
  3. Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce. uncountable
  4. Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”). alt-of,alternative
  5. Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
  6. A damaging weed growing in fields of grain. figuratively,rare
    — But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
动词 v.
  1. To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
    — he is […] to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty.
  2. simple past of tear form-of,obsolete,past
  3. 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.

词形变化

tares plural tares plural tares present,singular,third-person taring participle,present tared participle,past tared past tares plural

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.
词源 2
Borrowed from Middle French tare, from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).
词源 3
Borrowed from Japanese 垂(た)れ (tare, “sauce, gravy”).
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