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p | tare |

As a letter p

is the sixteenth letter of the.

As a symbol p

is symbol for phosphorus.

As a verb tare is

.

As an adjective tare is

crazy, barking, mad.

p

Translingual

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Letter

  • The sixteenth letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * With hook: * (wynn) {{Letter , page=P , NATO=Papa , Morse=·––· , Character=P , Braille=? }} Image:Latin P.png, Capital and lowercase versions of P , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter P.png, Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

    Symbol

    (Voiceless bilabial plosive) (head)
  • voiceless bilabial plosive
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    tare

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch.
  • (rare) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
  • * Matthew 13:25 (KJV)
    • But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
  • * 1985 , John Fowles, A Maggot :
    • 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)

    Noun

    (tare weight) (en noun)
  • The empty weight of a container.
    • See also
    * cloff * gross * net * tret

    Verb

    (tar)
  • (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 , p. 86,
    • he is to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty.
  • (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, p. 63,
    • Spectrometers, for example, must be zeroed before each reading; balances must be tared before each weighing.
    Synonyms
    * (to set a zero value) zero
    Usage notes
    * In measuring instruments other than balances, this process is usually called (term).

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (tear)

    • Etymology 4

    (etyl) (Tare sauce)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.

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    Anagrams

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