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tares

tares is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tare.

tares is the plural of tare.

Meaning of tare

Verb

tare (third-person singular simple present tares, present participle taring, simple past and past participle tared)

  1. To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
    • he is […] to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty.1886, Records of the History, Laws, Regulations, and Statistics of the Tobacco Trade of the United Kingdom, page 86
  2. To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.
    • Spectrometers, for example, must be zeroed before each reading; balances must be tared before each weighing.2003, Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math, CSHL Press, p. 63
    Synonyms:
    zero

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Phrases with tares

Questions about tares

What is tares the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tares is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tare.

Words near tares in the dictionary

  1. tarentos
  2. tarentula
  3. tarentulas
  4. Tarentum
  5. Tareq
  6. tares
  7. tarest
  8. Tareythang
  9. tarf
  10. tarfdar
  11. tarfdars

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