tare

Example Sentences

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Portioning ingredients with a scale means you can tare, or reset the scale to zero, after each addition and measure consecutively into a single bowl.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2020

Each bag includes the tare weight to ensure you pay only for what you are buying.

From Slate • May 7, 2018

Appreciation for the finer points of tsukemen and mazemen, of seasoning shio and blending tare, had grown far beyond Japanese expatriates.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2017

Plus, the sauce they’re served atop — a thick Japanese tare — is enhanced by the unctuous filling that spills out.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2017

By such lessons did I become acclimated to scientific calculation in even the meanest function, so learning the secrets of tare and gross.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson