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NOUN
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
- the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo
- (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals
- an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods
How To Use tare In A Sentence
- During our exchanges there were plenty of glares and stares, and maybe even a couple of opinions shared.
- Then, as they approached the docks, the diggers stared in awe at the remains of the once-mighty Imperial Japanese Navy.
- GENERAL LEVALLE, Argentina—Pilots often stare in disbelief when they make their first flight over this hamlet on the verdant pampa. Maybe Graciela Sees It From Heaven, This Huge Guitar Made of Trees
- In a few quick glances he absorbed the entire rolling farmland: green stonework mortared by tree windbreaks.
- _Attico genere dicendi se gaudere dicunt; atqui utinam imitarentur nec ossa solum, sed etiam et sanguinem. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements
- In June 2004, the Post Exchange here was mortared, killing two Soldiers and wounding more than a dozen additional troops.
- So I stare down at the pool table and pretend to study my opponent's next move.
- By now it had reached the sea, where it paused for a moment to fix us with a baleful stare. Times, Sunday Times
- Having worked himself into this ridiculous kind of phrensy, which lasted, perhaps, from twenty to thirty seconds, he suddenly discontinued it, and suffered his features to relax into their natural form; but the motion of his head seemed to have so stupified him, as indeed it well might, that there remained an unusual vacancy and a drowsy stare upon his countenance for some time afterward. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
- He stared off toward a cluster of people near the fireplace and I followed his gaze.
