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Tare vs Rent - What's the difference?

tare | rent |

As verbs the difference between tare and rent

is that tare is while rent is to occupy premises in exchange for rent or rent can be (rend).

As an adjective tare

is crazy, barking, mad.

As a noun rent is

a payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property or rent can be a tear or rip in some surface.

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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    rent

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) rente, from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
  • * , chapter=17
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
  • A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
  • (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
  • An object for which rent is charged or paid.
  • (obsolete) income; revenue
  • * Gower
    • [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
    Derived terms
    * rental * renting * rent strike

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
  • To grant occupation in return for rent.
  • To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
  • To be leased or let for rent.
    • The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Variant form of renden.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tear or rip in some surface.
  • * 1913 ,
    • The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents .
  • A division or schism.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (rend)

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