1. An adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods
   "The cashier subtracted the tare weight of the container before weighing the produce"
    
2. The weight of a motor vehicle, railway car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo
   "The tare of the empty truck was recorded before loading"
    
3. (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals
   "The scientist adjusted the tare weight on the scale before adding the sample"
    
4. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
   "The farmer planted tare as a nutritious feed crop for his cattle"
    
5. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
   "Farmers worked to remove tare from their wheat fields";
   - darnel, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum

1. Weigh to determine a tare
   "The cashier tared the scale before weighing the produce"

Sounds like: tears, tar

Derived forms: tares, tared, taring

Type of: adjustment, allowance, balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser [Brit], equalizer, rye grass, ryegrass, vetch, weight

Part of: genus Vicia, Vicia

Encyclopedia: Tare, Rwanda