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TARE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tare" is a kind of...):

balance; counterbalance; counterpoise; counterweight; equaliser; equalizer (a weight that balances another weight)

Domain category:

chemical analysis; qualitative analysis (the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("tare" is a kind of...):

weight (the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bearded darnel; cheat; darnel; Lolium temulentum; tare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tare" is a kind of...):

rye grass; ryegrass (any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tare" is a kind of...):

vetch (any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tare"):

hairy tare; hairy vetch; Vicia villosa (European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops)

Holonyms ("tare" is a member of...):

genus Vicia; Vicia (widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("tare" is a kind of...):

adjustment; allowance (an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb tare

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