Are vs Tare - What's the difference?
are | tare |
(rare) An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a
(rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch.
(rare) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
* Matthew 13:25 (KJV)
* 1985 , John Fowles, A Maggot :
(chiefly, business, and, legal) To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in merchandise.
* 1886 , Records of the History, Laws, Regulations, and Statistics of the Tobacco Trade of the United Kingdom ,
(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,
(obsolete) (tear)
Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.
As a symbol are
is the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for the united arab emirates.As a verb tare is
.As an adjective tare is
crazy, barking, mad.are
English
(ARE)Etymology 1
From (etyl) aren, from (etyl) earun, .Verb
(head)- Mary, where are you going?
- We are not coming.
- Mary and John, are you listening?
- They are here somewhere.
Synonyms
* (second-person singular) (archaic) art (used with thou )See also
* am * is * art * be * being * been * beest * was * wast * were * wertEtymology 2
From (etyl) are.Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Are is now rarely used except in its derivative hectare.Synonyms
* (SI unit) (rare) square decametreDerived terms
* centiare * decare * hectareStatistics
*tare
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
- 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.
Etymology 2
(etyl) tare, from (etyl) tara, from (etyl)See also
* cloff * gross * net * tretVerb
(tar)p. 86,
- he is to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty.
p. 63,
- Spectrometers, for example, must be zeroed before each reading; balances must be tared before each weighing.