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Tare vs Tyre - What's the difference?

tare | tyre |

As nouns the difference between tare and tyre

is that tare is a vetch, or the seed of a vetch while tyre is the ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.

As a verb tare

is to take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.

As a proper noun Tyre is

an ancient sea port and city state of Phoenecia, in present-day Lebanon.

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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    tyre

    English

    (wikipedia tyre)

    Etymology 1

    The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word derives from (attire), while other sources suggest a connection with the verb to'' (tie). The spelling ''tyre'' is used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand after being revived in the 19th century. Both ''tyre'' and (tire) were used in the 15th and 16th centuries. The United States did not adopt the revival of ''tyre'', and ''(tire) is the only spelling currently used there and in Canada.

    Alternative forms

    * (qualifier) tire

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK) The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
    • Usage notes
    Tyre is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British/Commonwealth spelling.
    Related terms
    * pneumatic tyre * spare tyre

    Etymology 2

    From Tamil.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (India) curdled milk

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (-)
  • attire

    • References

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