Tare vs Tale - What's the difference?
tare | tale |
(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.
(obsolete) Number.
(obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
(obsolete) Speech; language.
(obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
(legal, obsolete) A count; declaration.
(rare, or, archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
* (John Dryden)
(rare, or, archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
(rare, or, archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
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, title= A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
* Hooker
* Milton
* Carew
* 1843 (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
(slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
(dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
As a verb tare
is .As an adjective tare
is crazy, barking, mad.As a noun tale is
(de-form-noun).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
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Anagrams
* ----tale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . Related to tell, talk.Noun
(en noun)- Both number twice a day the milky dams; And once she takes the tale of all the lambs.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”}}
- the ignorant, who measure by tale , and not by weight
- And every shepherd tells his tale , / Under the hawthorn in the dale.
- In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
- They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere strict tale and measure
