tare

  1. Noun.  (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch.
  2. Noun.  (rare) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain (with reference to Matthew 13:25: "But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way." The King James Version (Authorized)).
  3. Noun.  The empty weight of a container.
  4. Verb.  (chiefly, business) To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
  5. Verb.  (sciences) To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.

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