Meaning of Tare | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.
   uncountable
2. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter T.
3. A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
   rare
4. The empty weight of a container; unladen weight.
   countable, uncountable
5. Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
6. A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
   figuratively, rare

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Examples

“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.”

“What is the neat weight of 4 hogsheads of tobacco, each weighing 10cwt. 3qrs. 10lb. gross; — tare 100lb. per hdd.?”

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