Tare vs Rare - What's the difference?
tare | rare |
(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.
(cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
* Dryden
Very uncommon; scarce.
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(US) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 328:
(US) To rear, bring up, raise.
(obsolete) early
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between tare and rare
is that tare is while rare is (us|intransitive) to rear, rise up, start backwards.As adjectives the difference between tare and rare
is that tare is crazy, barking, mad while rare is (cooking|particularly meats) cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense) or rare can be very uncommon; scarce or rare can be (obsolete) early.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.
Synonyms
* (to set a zero value) zeroUsage notes
* In measuring instruments other than balances, this process is usually called (term).Etymology 3
Verb
(head)Etymology 4
(etyl) (Tare sauce)Noun
(-)References
Anagrams
* ----rare
English
Etymology 1
From a dialectal variant of rear, from (etyl) rere, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (UK)Adjective
(en-adj)- New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care / Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare .
Synonyms
* (cooked very lightly) sanguinaryAntonyms
* (cooked very lightly) well doneDerived terms
* medium-rareEtymology 2
From (etyl) rare, from (etyl) rare, .Adjective
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Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Synonyms
* (very uncommon) scarce, selcouth, seld, seldsome, selly, geason, uncommonAntonyms
* (very uncommon) commonDerived terms
* rare bird * rare earth mineralEtymology 3
Variant of rear .Verb
(rar)- Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
Usage notes
* (rft-sense) Principal current, non-literary use is of the present participle raring' with a verb in "'''raring''' to". The principal verb in that construction is ''go''. Thus, '''''raring''' to go'' ("eager (to start something)") is the expression in which '''''rare is most often encountered as a verb.Etymology 4
Compare rather, rath.Adjective
(en adjective)- Rude mechanicals that rare and late / Work in the market place.