Talk:Tare weight

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"tares" is the name of a weed (rye grass) mentioned in the gospel of Matthew. See

http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/tares.html

Is it perhaps possible that "tare weight" came from the subtraction of the weed (tares) from the product (wheat), that is to say the "tare weight" is the weight of the total un-useable portion of the entire harvest?

That etymology seems somewhat unlikely to me, since the dichotomy involved in the term's usage is of content versus packaging, not usable content vs waste content. 12.106.86.230 (talk) 21:17, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

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In Russian, "tara" (тара) is rigid, envelope-kind packaging itself (bag or pallete is not, for softness and not-envelopeness, respectively)

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Added pronunciation guide. There has been, in my experience, some confusion as to whether it should be homophonous to "tear" or "tar-ay."12.106.86.230 (talk) 21:17, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Tare and Tret

The Tare and Tret article does not present sufficient information to stand on its own. It should be merged with this article. Neelix (talk) 18:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)