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Tare vs Tame - What's the difference?

tare | tame |

As a verb tare

is .

As an adjective tare

is crazy, barking, mad.

As a noun tame is

water-source.

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.

    • References

    Anagrams

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    tame

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Not or no longer wild; domesticated
    • They have a tame wildcat.
  • (chiefly, of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
    • The lion was quite tame .
  • Not exciting
    • This party is too tame for me.
    For a thriller, that film was really tame .
  • Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  • * Roscommon
    • tame slaves of the laborious plough
  • (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "tame")
    Synonyms
    * (not exciting) dull, insipid
    Antonyms
    * (not wild) wild * (mild and well-behaved) gentle * (not exciting) exciting * (mathematics) wild
    Derived terms
    * tamely * tameness

    Verb

  • to make something
    • He tamed the wild horse.
  • to become
    • Derived terms
    * tamer

    External links

    * ("tame" on Wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Verb

    (tam)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
  • * Fuller
    • In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.

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