Tare vs Gare - What's the difference?
tare | gare |
(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 verbs the difference between tare and gare
is that tare is while gare is .As an adjective tare
is crazy, barking, mad.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.