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tare | ounce |

As a verb tare

is .

As an adjective tare

is crazy, barking, mad.

As a noun ounce is

an avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 283495 grams or ounce can be the snow leopard, uncia uncia .

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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    ounce

    English

    (wikipedia ounce)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) once, from (etyl) . Compare inch.

    Noun

  • (en noun) abbreviation oz.
  • An avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams.
  • A troy ounce, weighing 1/12 of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams.
  • A US fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/16 of a US pint, 1.804 687 cubic inches or 29.573 531 milliliters.
  • A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/20 of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.413063 millilitres.
  • A little bit.
    • He didn't feel even an ounce of regret for his actions.
    Synonyms
    * (small amount) see also .
    Related terms
    * inch *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) once, from . Interestingly, the taxon of the snow leopard is a Latinisation using the root of ounce (1).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The snow leopard, Uncia uncia .

    • External links

    * (Uncia uncia)

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