tare

1. 1.

   an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods

   Broaderallowance
2. 2.

   any of several weedy vetches grown for forage

   Broadervetch

   Narrowerhairy vetch

   Part ofVicia
3. 3.

   weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

   Synonymsdarnelbearded darnelcheatLolium temulentum

   Broaderrye grass
4. 4.

   the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo

   Broaderweight
5. 5.

   (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals

   Broadercounterweight

   chemical analysis

Other forms of tare

plural

tares·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tare

What does tare mean?

tare means "an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tare?

tare has 1 syllable: tare.

What is another word for tare?

Close synonyms include darnel, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tare a common word?

tare is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.