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Word: tare
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Meaning:
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))
- rare A vetch, or the seed of a vetch.
- The empty weight of a container.
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Verb:
- business|and|legal To weighting merchandise.
- sciences To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.
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