Tare



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.莠草, 杂草
• ［英］ n.莠草, 杂草 ( any of several vetches[野草])
• ［记］ 联想记忆: stare ( 盯着看) 去掉s成为tare

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English; probably akin to Middle Dutch tarwe wheat
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. the seed of a vetch
  • b. any of several vetches (especially Vicia sativa and V. hirsuta)
• 2. a weed of grain fields especially of Biblical times that is usually held to be the darnel
• 3. plural an undesirable element

II. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Old Italian tara, from Arabic ?ar?a, literally, that which is removed
• Date: 15th century
• 1. a deduction from the gross weight of a substance and its container made in allowance for the weight of the container; also the weight of the container
• 2. counterweight

III. transitive verb (tared; taring)

• Date: 1812
• to ascertain or mark the tare of; especially to weigh so as to determine the tare

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