Tare vs Vale - What's the difference?
tare | vale |
(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.
(mostly, poetic) A valley.
* (rfdate) Harte
* , Hymn 214'', ''The Issues of Life and Death ,
* 19th c , ,
As verbs the difference between tare and vale
is that tare is while vale is to be worth.As an adjective tare
is crazy, barking, mad.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
* ----vale
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) , from (etyl) vallis, vallesNoun
(en noun)- In those fair vales , by nature formed to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease
- Beyond this vale of tears / There is a life above,
- "Make me a cottage in the vale ," she said, / "Where I may mourn and pray.